craig_s
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Registered: 5th Mar 06
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yeterday i painted my rocker cover,timing belt cover and my spark plug cover.what do you think?? and i aslo found something floating about inside the head 10 points for the 1st person to guess what it was and dont say cams and followers.
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sxibeast
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Registered: 6th Aug 03
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nice! such an improvement too!
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craig_s
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i know i wanst inmpressed with what i found inside the head though.the last person to take the head off must have been a right noob
[Edited on 22-04-2007 by sri power]
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Mark330d
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Registered: 25th Apr 06
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a wasp? we put a wasp that was stile alive in an xe yesterday, I suppose i could call it an eco friendly exhaust additive, adds a buzz to the engine
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craig_s
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nah it wernt a wasp and thats animal cruelty lol
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Whittie
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Looks good mate
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Mark330d
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it was trespassing on private property so it deserved it,
How about a nut or a washer?
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craig_s
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oohh very close there were not 1 but 3 old head bolts washers checked all the current ones to make sure they were on.so who ever took the head off last must have left them in
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Mark330d
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lucky you found them then. They caused any damage?
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craig_s
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well when i got it it had noisy tappets which i will be replcing anyway but ive noticed its not as bad since i took those washers out.but no it didnt cause any noticable damage.
[Edited on 22-04-2007 by sri power]
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sxibeast
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lol! i cant beleive they left them in! i always triple check anything under the bonnet incase of something like this! shocking! good job you found em though!
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craig_s
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i know it was a good job.some people just dont give a crap when they are working on cars.f it had happened when i owned the car i would have shoved them up the mechanics nose!apparently the engine was checked over by aldon performance before it was fitted too
[Edited on 22-04-2007 by sri power]
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TheCam
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Registered: 16th Mar 07
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how did you manage to paint the spark plug cover and not the writing, when I painted mine i just went over the writing lol
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craig_s
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covered the writing with tape and cut around the letters with a stanley blade
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TheCam
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ahhhh. will have to do that because i'm thinkin about respraying mine. it is currently black with white spark plug cover. thinkin of doin it yellow with black. dunno why i want it yellow (car is silver) jus think it will look cool lol
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taylorboosh
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lol may it have something to do with the yellow powdecoated engine last week?
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craig_s
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yeh yellow might look good.i wanted arden blue to match my car but i couldnt find it so i got polar sea blue pearlescent for the covers and bmw bright red for the spark plug cover
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