engine colour and rocker cover
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hi can someone tell me how much power i will lose if i paint my engine green and dont fit a alloy rocker cover thanks:)

none, you will gain.

If you give it a red undercoat you will be fine.

If something is worth doing, it's worth doing half of.

and even more if you paint it red

what about the metro rocker cover can this be remeved from the engine

You will gain, because the standard rocker cover weighs 500g less

Class C 3rd Place Avon 2011 14.18 @101mph

Am I being stupid? How can colour effect power?

It just does ! Like brake calipers.

calipers have to be bright red otherwise youll get no stopping power

Done now needs redoing lol

Shit mine are blue, i did wonder why....

Edited by MikeRace on 1st Feb, 2012.

1/4 Mile 14.3secs 96Mph Terminal 10psi of boost.


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Blue for extra cooling

Red for more power (or to sell at over-inflated prices on eBay.

BMC green if your car is an early gay model

Black if you want it to look lovely and prevent the need to ever clean it.

Grey if you are Will H

Combinations of the above work as undercoats or a mix. Eg purple will give cooling and power benefits, but only half the power of red or half the cooling of blue. Undercoats work better as you can do a complete coat of red and a complete coat of blue, netting you all the power and cooling rewards!

Oh and don't forget Matt black on your intercooler for 1000% more heat dissipation.

Miniwilliams exploits the benefits of colour on his 300hp monster. Check out the attention to detail, with different colour head and block. We can only assume that metallic blue has aerodynamic properties and gold aids traction.

This is all proven and tested. 100% factual.

Edited by theoneeyedlizard on 1st Feb, 2012.

In the 13's at last!.. Just

pre 80s engines where black. its the early gay ones that where green

Thats why they painted the mincey thows yellow.

Nothing thats yellow is hard or manly!

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Thanks Andy. I've edited my post so that I've got this list properly accurate.

In the 13's at last!.. Just

good work Gary

It's a tough call, purple = 50% power and cooling, or do red and blue for max. Power and cooling, but with 100% more weight in paint??

Audi s4 b5 - 470bhp & 486ft lbs

On 30th Apr, 2012 Brett said:
yeah stick the bit in and give it a wobble

Van had a red block and a blue head. So does my clubby.

If something is worth doing, it's worth doing half of.

my rocker is purple, engine and head are green but the head has blue under the green and blue lighting coming through!!!

im so ahead of paint technology its unreal

My old engine block was green overpainted red. Then the head was green, overpainted blue, which was then overpainted red.
New engine will just be black.

My engine is gold -does that just make me odd ?

But you may have noticed - I do like to be different.

IT'S GGGOOOLLLLDDDD!!!!

Sholty

1/4 Mile 14.3secs 96Mph Terminal 10psi of boost.


Fibreglass Parts? - http://www.tdkracing.co.uk/
Split Rims? - http://www.force-racing.co.uk/

All the above is true. And it's definatley a fact that grey 998s is the way to go.

Not sure about the gold, but it may work on an in-line engine rather than the transverse mini orientation.

Fastest 998 mini in the world? 13.05 1/4 mile 106mph

I used some 2k etch primer on my gearbox casing. It was a shitty yellow/green colour, left over from the days before they banned chromates in paint.

The top coat was black.

What does this do to the performance of my gearbox ???

Also, the black is chipped in a few places exposing some of the shitty yellow/green - does this enhance its effect ???

Schrödinger's cat - so which one am I ???