quite proud of these

[grumpy2]

Gary

[Kevin Garrod]

Looks very nice, is it powder coated?

[KOY 23]

I like a nice bit of crackling

[grumpy2]

Its heat resistant crackle finish by VHT. grit blasted then heated to around 200°c

[Staggard]

Its heat resistant crackle finish by VHT. grit blasted then heated to around 200°c

Make sure all the grit is out of them before fitting them very nice by the way Graham

[martin]

Gary

Beautiful, like mine only better, how did you get TRIUMPH to stand out so well ? Martin.

[wilf]

Very nice work there.

[grumpy2]

The gauze filters were removed before blasting then everything thoroughly cleaned afterwards. The silver is simply the paint abraded away while the paint is still soft using progressively finer wet and dry used dry

Thanks for the comments, now if I could only be a successful stopping my inlet manifold from leaking I'd be a happy chappy!

Gary

[Multi-Tech]

Very nice, think. Prefer that to the chromed ones

[martin]

The gauze filters were removed before blasting then everything thoroughly cleaned afterwards. The silver is simply the paint abraded away while the paint is still soft using progressively finer wet and dry used dry

Thanks for the comments, now if I could only be a successful stopping my inlet manifold from leaking I'd be a happy chappy!

Gary

That's beautifully done Gary, a lot of work, congrats mate. Martin.

[stag157.7]

Make sure all the grit is out of them before fitting them very nice by the way Graham

second that,that grit can be trapped in the gauZe waiting for the oil to wash it straight into the engine, I only ever chemically strip these
SO PLEASE BE VERY CAUTIOUS

look what happened to my engine

wash em out, blow it all out with an airline.


alan

[Jeff]

second that,that grit can be trapped in the gauZe waiting for the oil to wash it straight into the engine, I only ever chemically strip these
SO PLEASE BE VERY CAUTIOUS

look what happened to my engine

wash em out, blow it all out with an airline.


alan

That's also why Clive Tate re built my engine after PO left grit in the gauze. Expensive mistake.

[milothedog]

That has reminded me of something back in 1983. The Rootes dealer where I worked closed down and made us all redundant. One of the two apprentices took it quite badly and took revenge on one of the owners car's (a Hillman Avenger, Sun Seeker) he took a large handful of grit material from the spark plug cleaning machine and put in the R/cover, the car lasted a week!

I found out a little later that he was continuing his apprenticeship and had been taken on by Stratstone (Jaguar)


Ian

[jleyton]

In one garage I used to work we were called out to bring in a car, in warranty, with a trashed engine.

We couldn't prove it at the time but it appeared to have been over-revved however the manufacturer authorised us to fit a new engine. This was the days before rev limiters.

A few months later the car re.appeared with a similar problem and, again, the manufacturer authorised engine replacement even though we were sure it was the owner's fault.

Well, the car had one of those rolling drum type rev counters and one of our guys took it out and painted in a very rude word after 7000 rpm -
Ie the driver would never see it unless he was over-revving it.

Needless to say, we never had the car back again for a similar problem

Happy days. Cheers

Julian