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 Stanley
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| posted on August 22nd, 2003 at 08:03 PM |
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Painting cases.
I know painting cases is a bit of a no no but I got my case back from being machined today and the acid cleaning has left its mark
Erroded some of the external edges and pitted aswell. Inside is good just the outside looks a bit ordinary.
The way i see i have two options spend some time smoothing the bits you'll see or paint it. I.ve noticed some of the yanks paint their cases
gloss black looks good.
I kinda know what the answer will be let me know anyway.
Thanks in advance.....
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| posted on August 22nd, 2003 at 09:28 PM |
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Paint or peel!
Don't do it....will kill the engine by retaining heat......
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fish
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| posted on August 23rd, 2003 at 04:55 AM |
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unless its silver. was athread on here a while ago about painting. you would have to go back a fair way to find it but it was pretty interesting.
Drink and drive your a bloody idiot!!! make it home you'r a legend !!!!
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| posted on August 23rd, 2003 at 07:04 AM |
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Dont paint it
Get some emery paper and smoooooth it out or blend the etched surfaces so there not as noticable.
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Stanley
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| posted on August 23rd, 2003 at 08:08 AM |
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ok i think thats what i wanted to here thanks guy's i will blend and not paint
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| posted on August 24th, 2003 at 06:20 PM |
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For years I worked for a VW business in Sydney and my role was reconditioning his engines. He insited that I painted the cases once they were crack
tested and linebored. On a good week we could fit 4 engines and send out 1 or 2. Over the years we never had any complaints from people saying their
motors were over heating. I have on occasion painted my own motors and having a temp guage fitted to my VW's never seen high temps from my oil. I
was fortunate enough to learn through out the years that poorly fitted tin ware was the most common sorce of overheated closley followed by incorrect
ingition timming and on rare occasions when none of these problems were present and I had to find an over heating problem I would find that the
engines either had a large amount of carbon built up in the combustion chamber or that the engine was simply built with too much static
compression.
So in conclusion IF YOU WANT TO PAINT YOUR CASE GO FOR IT.
Each to their own just remember what goes around come around.
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| posted on August 26th, 2003 at 08:06 PM |
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what about something like this:
www.brookscoatsit.com/heatdisp.html
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| posted on August 26th, 2003 at 09:35 PM |
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i know i`m gonna come off sounding stupid again ......... .........but if
painting is bad for retaining heat why do they paint radatiors black
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| posted on August 27th, 2003 at 05:22 AM |
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i'd paint it. what looks good is good. as long as you keep the grime off it will disperce the heat. and fit your tinware tight around the motor
and keep a good seal from tinware to motor.
Drink and drive your a bloody idiot!!! make it home you'r a legend !!!!
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| posted on August 27th, 2003 at 02:04 PM |
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posted by wadd
ibut if painting is bad for retaining heat why do they paint radatiors black
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Do i have to explain MORE than that????
Futue te ipsum!!!
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| posted on August 27th, 2003 at 04:05 PM |
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Or you could CERAMIC coat it (ducks for cover)  |
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Peter Leonard
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| posted on September 10th, 2003 at 02:45 PM |
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radiators are painted black because it dissipates heat better.
go matt black.
*sighs*
*puts on helmet*
let sleeping dubs lie
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| posted on October 5th, 2003 at 04:49 PM |
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*waits for wes to jump in*
I just dont like the look of a painted case. Mine is painted a pretty silver by the previous builder.
Chris.... kombi pilot, oval dreamer... finisher #26971 2005 city to surf
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Baja Wes
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| posted on October 5th, 2003 at 07:33 PM |
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The best solution is to put a V6 in it. :thumb
For the great paint debate for here
http://www.aussieveedubbers.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=4657
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Baja Wes
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| posted on October 5th, 2003 at 08:25 PM |
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To summarize the other post, painting the case or the gearbox will not hurt it and will not noticably effect the heat transfer from either.
Trust me, I measured the effect of paint on a cylinder, and it wasn't much. On a case it has even less effect, as it is much cooler.
If you want to paint it, paint it.
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