im doin a turbo conversion on my 3i stripping parts down my thermostat hosing it well grubby

what can i do to it? paint? powder coat? polish?

what have you done to yours

 

Painted mine silver mate and then run the brass part of the sensor plug on the polishing wheel at work so it come up mirror like gold.

 

throw it away and get a 1400cvh one. Then polish it.

 

I spent a week of evening making mine mirror finish on my polishing wheel, then painted black out of boredem ended up looking really good, like black glass.
How ever you fancy it and how you have your engine bay finished.

 

Whats better about the 1400 one Jano just outta interest

 

id also like to know lol think polishing is in order then might do the inlet aswell

 

Ive got a powdercoated standard inlet manifold in that chrome silver finish if anyone wants to buy it, just wanted to add that lol.

 

mines efi mate lol

 

so is mine now hence why im selling it lol. Ebay time hey

 

+1

 

I sand blasted mine then painted it Silver followed by 3 coats of clear coat, came up lovely

 

pics if poss please

 

I did mine wrinkle black

 

dose anybody know lol

 

Painted mine vw magic black ,think the 1400 one just looks nicer ,may be wrong though

 

 

think im gonna go down the polished route on the xr, still aint seen a 1.4 one but i might be gettin something a bit more unusual, if my mate finds it

 

Plus everything else in the engine bay lol, altho end result looks good. Thinking about doing all my chrome satin black, much easier to keep on top of.