Only took me a day to clean up my engine bay and paint the engine and stuff. Those plates are the only thing that hasn't been touched, didn't even think of them but you've just given me something to do this weekend. The wiper motor looks neat too!

yeah wont take long, just gotta drive down the line about 1.5 hours so i can get the paint matched up, i'll get there eventually haha, hopefully in the next month, can't wait to start doing a few bits to it :y:

well i finally fixed the flooding and flat spot it used to flood the manifold with petrol when you turn it off, then would take ages to start and was embarrassing, also had a flat spot at around 1200 rpm which was annoying, i replaced almost everything in the carb that was changeable, never made a difference, also tried a carb off my spare corona and still no change, then today i though i would put the carb of my original 2r that just has a touch smaller secondary throat, so i put it back together (had ratted it for bits) and put it on, starts first turn of the key and has no flat spot i drove the car around for a year like this, never put that carb on because it was a touch smaller.... :no2: and i put the black rocker cover on because the old carby has the throttle linkage holder on it,

 

anyways here's a few pics.

 

what I'm talking about...

 

 

what are your thoughts on the black rocker cover?

 

Black looks decent, you need the side plate to be matching though. The colour scheme of your engine is a reverse of mine! I've got grey rocker cover and side plate, black block.

yeah i want the head and block to be the same colour, and the rocker cover and side plate to be the same, but i'm just not sure how the block will look silver, and the car starts easy cold and just idles with no choke :)

hello, been playing with my dash, repainting the silver bits :)

 

this is before

 

 

and after :D

 

 

 

now i'm thinking about painting around the guages too, what do you think, should i or will it look crap?

 

Looks good!

Might be a good idea to try photoshopping it to see what it'll look like?

What paint did you use? Mine could probably do with a touch up.

yeah iv'e half done it now, i think it should look good when done, i just used a silver spray can, sprayed into the lid and put it on with the little white stick things with cotton tips, after a lite sand off

well i did around the gauges, i think it looks good, and it actually looks better in real life too!

 

sorry about crap pics haha

 

 

 

i'm happy with it, just a little less plain in there now...

Looks pretty snazzy! Might try it myself.

haha thanks, and if you don't like it just sand it off, i was thinking of doing the line that goes around the whole dash but it looks too hard haha, i think it would be overkill anyways

Around the gauges was a great idea, bet your glad you tried it! Good work.

thanks, yeah i'm happy with it :D

Checked mine last night, and it has stock white/silver around the gauges. Perhaps yours had been sanded off previously?

yeah i the left one on mine was a little bit grey, not too sure, thinking about doing the border around the outside...