Another modded/polished timing cover =)

[DjLiquid]

Watcha think?





Yeah, I know there are swirl marks and whatnot in the light, but I just did a quick job and the cas will cover the view of this.

[r34 gtr]

swirl marks or not, its still ballin!!

i give it two thumbs and a d!ck up.

[c-rad]

Sorry, but I have to give a thumbs down on the premise of an exposed timing belt. All it takes is something to fall in there or catch and its bye bye engine. If there was a way to make an acrylic timing cover, now that would be sweet. A for effort though

[r34 gtr]

Yeah, I would be very worried that something would fall down in there. I still think its hot though.

[DjLiquid]

Sorry, but I have to give a thumbs down on the premise of an exposed timing belt. All it takes is something to fall in there or catch and its bye bye engine. If there was a way to make an acrylic timing cover, now that would be sweet. A for effort though

to each their own I guess. Ive heard many threads of people having done this years ago without any problems. Also, I have adjustable timing gears I want to show off =). Not to mention that I will be painting a spare set of valve covers bayside blue only to be put on when I show the car off, along with this timing cover. It's will be 90% for show. The odd time if I go to a meet, I will leave it on. Or I could try to make a cover of some sort

[nismoplsr]

I have mine cut because i would rather be able to keep an eye on the belts condition, tension and make sure the came gears are still secured on there. That and for the day when i get adjustables.

[Bwana]

I ran mine uncovered for quite awhile after I swapped it into the MG due to some clearance issues. I've since swapped to a different hood and put the timing cover back on. It never caused me any problems, but I know Ryan had some issues with it.

[bentvalves]

run the engine under tray and you'll eliminate some of the possibility of a rock bouncing up into your engine bay.

float did have an issue, but it didnt cause his belt to skip a tooth, but rather burned a groove into one of its edges.

another member has advised that if the upper cover isnt being run/modified then your better off with no lower cover as well as it will act like a funnel.

[boost_boy]

I like it, dude! And since you're FWD, ain't no rocks jumping-up on the passenger side , so show-off you shiz-nit .

Dee

[Reno]

they don't make any clear ones like they do for the RB's??

[ilovecoupes]

pretty sick, personaly I would have gone with a higher grit and more of a mirror finish

but still sick

[Masterdebater]

so what did u use to polish it? and how long did it take?i wanna do mine but also the valve covers and a nice custom coil cover but dayum thats nice foo i dont see anything bad about it!!

[DjLiquid]

i cant recall if i listed what I did above but I went all the way down to 800 grit. Anything lower than that and the pads got loaded with aluminum dust within 4 passes of sanding. I then just used a pad to fine sand the crevases to make sure I wouldnt wreck the buffing pad when I went to buff it. Then I jused used some rubbing compound. The process from start to finish with the mod took about 2 hours.

Like I had mentioned. It was just a quick job.

[ilovecoupes]

i cant recall if i listed what I did above but I went all the way down to 800 grit. Anything lower than that and the pads got loaded with aluminum dust within 4 passes of sanding.

when you gett to the higher grits 800+ I usually wet sand it kinda gets rid of that problem

[DjLiquid]

........... stupid me.

Ok. I'm going to redo it and use a better buffing pad on the weekend.

I'll post better pics on late Saturday if I finish my engine early

[Chinamandrift]

u should get it polished like mine ........but i agree the opening on the top is bad though .....i would get a clear cover or something on the top of that ......heres mine but i didnt cut anything off



if u guys want ....i know a very veyy good polishing shop near me .....i can talk to him about getting something polished ........he takes his time in making everything look great.

[themadscientist]

u should get it polished like mine ........but i agree the opening on the top is bad though .....i would get a clear cover or something on the top of that ......heres mine but i didnt cut anything off



if u guys want ....i know a very veyy good polishing shop near me .....i can talk to him about getting something polished ........he takes his time in making everything look great.

Is that one of them 18-RGs?