Sanding rocker cover down

Well as some of you know my car is off the road now due to losing 3rd gear, so im in the middle of saving to sort that out!

But whilst car is off the road im going to spend abit of time tidying engine bay up & also want to paint the rocker cover!
Now im wondering what is the best way for me to sand the rocker cover down as I don't want to get it sand blasted because of the risk of getting sand in the filter underneath it. & don't want to use a dermal as that just misshapes it.

Has anyone got any tips?

Use your hand and sand paper

Bolt it flat onto a piece of wood.. Use silicone to seal it to the wood and then sand blast it...

Wouldn't that work.

Yeh did think of that Stu lol, But ive heard the paint on rocker covers is quite thick & a nightmare to do with sand paper?

Id say that sand blasting would just eat threw the silicone in seconds

Or just get it soda blasted.

Greygtir wrote:Or just get it soda blasted.

Never heard of that, ill look in to it

Ps bit of insparation. Get it as clean as that fucker. And what colour you doing yours

I would of thought it you just scotch pad over the original paint that will key it enough to lay down your base and top coat?

Greygtir wrote:

Ps bit of insparation. Get it as clean as that fucker. And what colour you doing yours

That's tidy

Going to do my rocker cover a blue colour, as slose to the compomotive logo on my wheels, Basicly if you picture my car I want the rocker cover blue & boost pipes anthresite, So it go's with the colour scheme of my wheels

Then maybe save up for a blue cusco roll cage in the future

It only looks average though. Id never paint parts unless the been striped and been given a good going over with wet n dry

What i did with mine was use paint stripper nitro morse but i wanted it back to bare metal to polish it but i would do the same again to spray another as it gets rid of all that crud .

Yeh I agree Leighton like you & Tommi say id want it stripped right back so I get a good finish

What looks average ?

The finish you get is all down to prepping I suppose like painting a car

Greygtir wrote:

Ps bit of insparation. Get it as clean as that fucker. And what colour you doing yours

How do you fill the engine with oil with this on?

nomad wrote:What looks average ?

The difrence between scotch brite and full on prep is night and day, probably my ocd

ill 2nd the nitromorse i done that and it works a treat

Digitalfaze wrote:ill 2nd the nitromorse i done that and it works a treat

I may give that a go then

it removes everything then just a case of wire brushing then give it a little sand down then paint.

im gonna go for vht wrinkle paint for mine as i love honda rocker covers

wtf has this got to do with detailing lol
im gonna move it because I can ya numpty, wait till I see you on Saturday

Blame gaz he started it   lol

Because it will end up being painted, so id of thought that would be detailing?  lol

My bad  

no no no gaz that's not detailing

you best have bought lilly a good b'day prezzie or im gonna grass you up to dangerous and you don't wanna make him mad mr  
is karl coming along?

Hahaha, I hate detailing so I avoid it so I don't know what catorgary to put it in  

I also think you owe Lilly an appoligy, as you made her cry when she looked at you at the RR day... That's Jus cruel Bob...  

Nope karl cant make it, hes got other plans, we mustn't be good enough for him anymore lol

right that's it tell him that me and him are soooooo over  

yeah ive a nasty habit of making little kiddies cry, they only have to look at meand they burst into tears and if I talk it makes them go even worse
mind ya I make myself cry when I look in the mirror