engine bays??

[shy witness]

i was just lookin people opinions on engine bays

i'm fitting a 2.0 8valve

but just how spotless do they need to be......

admitadly a mint one is gorgeous...........but lets be serious..and talk about dailey drivers...and less money invoved

we would all love a mint bay (no doubt).....but in all honesty.......how much of the bay is actually seen when u've the bigger engine in..and injection system etc etc

is stitch welding........seam sealing......gravitex'ing...and then obviously colouring enough

or is that crap????:confused:

[Adam]

Ive not a clue what your on about lol


Are you asking whether its worth having a good looking engine bay if the cars a daily driver?

[draper]

^^ thank god its not just me who couldnt understand that then

[Mike]

nowt wrong with a minty engine bay on a daily driver at all :D

[shy witness]

yes

more or less

excuse the absolute drunkness last nite haha

[carls nova sri]

i would say you need stitch welding and seam sealing done why don't you ask for a pic request for tidy looking 2l 8v engine bays and then you can see what you fancy

[Ernie]

nowt wrong with Dars to go on.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/chunny01/29092007222.jpg
Or my old one.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/chunny01/photoshoot024.jpg
Or my track one.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/chunny01/08092007068.jpg

[carls nova sri]

yeah but he wants pics of 2l 8v not 16v there much smaller

[trackdaynova]

ah ha - Ernie you've just answered a question i was just about to post about...

that strut brace is an OMP one isn't it? if so - what engine size is it made for? (or whats it listed as?)

[Ste L]

look's to be an SR strut brace..

[Ernie]

Its an sr 1 you need but make sure you have a power cap of some sort or you wont get it on as i found out.

[Ernie]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/vauxhall-nova-strut-brace_W0QQitemZ270169958627QQihZ017QQcategoryZ1040 4QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[shy witness]

im going to stitch weld it...and ive just ordered the strengthening plate kit aswell

i'll also be seam-sealing it all aswell

but i dont know if its worth going to all the effort of really having the inner wings and all really immaculately shiney if you know what i mean.

especially if your not really going to see the most of it

thats why i was thinking that if it was done nicely with gravitex/stonechip or something.....and then well painted in the same colour of the car...it would probably look good enough...and save a hell of alot more work

[carls nova sri]

well the choice is up to you

[Dan]

probably not much help but here is a pic of my engine bay, it has been done now for 3 years and was an everyday car for the first year or so until i pulled it for mostly track use......

http://www2.novaload.net/files/dan/newcar/enginebay.jpg

[shy witness]

that looks sweet dan

ya see ....i'm starting to think that there wont be enough of the inner wings and wotever on show when i fit the injection sytems inlet etc etc.....too warrant having the inner wings perfect

ive a wee patch or 2 to weld in them also.......so i was thinking it would speed my project along alot more if was just done with stonechip stuff...but kept really tidy at the same time

has anyone any other pictures of bays???

especially with the 2.0 8valve in???

[Iain]

Also another 1.6 but I think the engines look similar? I did mine on the cheap with rattle cans and is my daily driver. Welded across the seam on the passenger side and smoothed with filler. It's the OMP GTE strut brace too (straight) opposed to the SR one (bent).

http://iainel.co.uk/images/forums/NovaWIP/65.JPG

[Adam]

I always try to keep my bay looking tidy, looks much better than oil and crap everywhere.

Heres a pic of my old bay, with the 1.4 i think fitted, Lol.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v86/Nova-crew/Nova%20WIP%20pics/66-NewKN-Oct06-1.jpg
Heres another, was a bit messy in this pic tho.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v86/Nova-crew/Nova%20WIP%20pics/Image1.jpg

And heres the current bay, 16v tho.
http://www.iainel.co.uk/images/gallery/JNC/IMG_3117.JPG

[Mike]

Some nice blingy 1.6s up there, so ill jump on the bandwagon lol

Heres mine prior to some theiving @unts having there way with it...

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j181/mikenova/111_0144.jpg

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j181/mikenova/engine%20convo/PICT0051.jpg

[R1CH]

A mint engine bay doesn't have to cost a fortune, its mainly down to taking your time and doing a neat job, route your cables and pipe work well and just give everything a good clean maybe a lick of paint be for you install everything.
Theres nothing in my bay that cost a fortune, just spent time cleaning / painting everything and routing cables / hoses neatly.

Rich

[Adam]

Theres some very nice bays on here.

[BIGS]

There are pics of my bay in the link below. it was done 10 years ago so if you keep ontop of it no reason why it shouldnt last. If you dont wont to spend much money on the bay just get a polising kit. they dont cost much and then its just your time and effort. then you can had little bits here and there for your touches to it

http://www.bebo.com/PhotoAlbumBig.jsp?MemberId=2405205740&PhotoAlbumId=4231452951&PhotoId=4596016508

[ward]

heres one of my car 5 yars ago
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v632/madcodling/1991big.jpg

this was the first time i ever took an engine out and cleaned it,and first time i used a spray gun.
this however wasnt finished.

if u want to put the effort in,then im sure theres no reason u carnt have a clean engine bay