clutch & gearbox's do you paint or just clean them up!!!
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just after what most of you guys do, do you clean up & paint the gearbox & clutch housings or just clean them up with a wire brush on a drill & leave as is

if you paint them what paint do you chaps use, not sure if they'd need hi-temp stuff or normal paint types, i'm gonna do a few bits on the stuff i have this week, prep on my motor parts for when i eventually get my parts back from the machine shop

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Tom Fenton says: I have it all, make me an offer

i use alloy wheel acid to clean the aluminium bits.

no longer a series, but still 1.3 turbo.

jet wash before stripping the engine apart gets 90% of the crap off

"Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"

"did you know you can toast potato waffles?"

all has been soaked in degreaser & jetwashed & i'll probobly attack the parts with a wire brush on my drill, but want it to look tidy when i'm all finished, i just dont want to paint parts then for it to flake as i've seen happen on other engines, its a shame if you put the effort to building a new motor & make it look all spangly for it to look shit cause of flaky paint, i'd be so gutted

SKYLINES ARE LIKE CLITS, EVERY FLANGE SEEMS TO HAVE ONE: see this sticker on my silvia

the Search-section on this forum is blummin superb & simple to use, unlike some other forums, without the search-section & the help of this bunch of chaps on here i'll never be able to !!!Start the day with a 998cc turbo!!! :) i'm getting closer though!

Tom Fenton says: I have it all, make me an offer

Use acid etch primer first

i dont toiuch the box just give it a clean but i paint the trns fer and bell housing with thined down smoothrite and use my spray gun.

as long as you doint make it to thin its sprays well with a good finish and lasts well

always looking for them bigger bunches of bannanas

I used a can of carb cleaner spray to clean the gearbox casing on mine. Got it really new and shiney looking.

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paint the engine block and head

the rest in my opinion, shine the ally up

the ally box & transfer casings dont seem to be painted as standard from the factory, thats the other reason i was a lil jubious about painting them, i've never had ally take paint to well myself, if i went to a fine-ish grade with scotchbrite wheels it should look standard should'nt it

SKYLINES ARE LIKE CLITS, EVERY FLANGE SEEMS TO HAVE ONE: see this sticker on my silvia

the Search-section on this forum is blummin superb & simple to use, unlike some other forums, without the search-section & the help of this bunch of chaps on here i'll never be able to !!!Start the day with a 998cc turbo!!! :) i'm getting closer though!

Tom Fenton says: I have it all, make me an offer

Give it some "Go faster" Green.
regards
Dave

Personally I don't like to see the castings painted, the machine shop I use has a good acid clen bath which leaves most things looking pretty clean anyway, once they have had a gose dose of jetwashing afterwards.

how would you go about getting paint off the gearbox housing? as the one have is already painted in green, which i dont rely want!

My build thread..

http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.php?p=vt&tid=542985

Paint stripper......

i'll do some pics of this progress on my housings this week as i'm doing these before the gearbox, they are going to get another dose of degreaser & jetwashing tomorrow & i'll make a start with the wire brush in a drill, slightly off topic but still with the housings,

whats the opinion about holes for cooling in the clutch end cover on a road car??? if yes how big?

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Tom Fenton says: I have it all, make me an offer

i wouldnt risk wire brushing the ally, it will leave a 'scoured' finish.

try some nitromoors, its great stuff, but be careful with it, make sure you rinse it well afterwards and watch you dont get any of it in your eyes :)

"Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"

"did you know you can toast potato waffles?"

Mr Muscle Oven cleaner works pretty well. And is cheaper than engine Gunk to.

I drill holes in everything..!

It's ok to use wire bushes so long as they are the crimp type not notted ones. Helps if you take a large does of subtlety with breakfast.

Polish up the alloy and they cover with the clear coat alloy pait frost do .... looks wicked!!!

Every day is a school day ...........

How fast and how expensive ...... the same question...

My box was painted blue (looked awfull) before I sent it off to turbohogster to be referbed I went at it with a wire wheel, then jet washed it, came up a treat.
The transmission casing and wok, I took to the local powder coaters, they bead blasted it and left a zinc coating on it which takes paint brilliantly (I use spry hammerite) Am going to collect it later today, will post a pic before and after painting, will prob be tues I get to do this.
Shane.

I used nitromorse paint stripper to remove the layers of rainbow pain it had been painted in, then masked up all flat ground areas and glass blasted polished degreased and given a coat of clear heat resistant varnish result looks good.

Sorry its taken all week to post these pics, only got the parts back on fri from bead blasting
Shane

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that looks pretty smart in blasted & painted, a real decent finish there shaneyboy!

SKYLINES ARE LIKE CLITS, EVERY FLANGE SEEMS TO HAVE ONE: see this sticker on my silvia

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Tom Fenton says: I have it all, make me an offer

Thanks, my local powder coaters are the nuts and very helpfull with what ive asked from them. Its looks ok in the pics, as you cant cee the runs in my pi** poor painting skills, but luckily they will hiden at the back of the bay!
Shane,

Sorry for digging up an old thread, the left hand pic of the clutch cover above, is that the finish after sand blasing and zinc coating?

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Just sand blasting it looks like.

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