chrome dont get ya home but....

I know chrome dont get you home but.....

I've seen some bling engine dress up kits from coolair

http://www.coolairvw.co.uk/Item/Sho...P-KG_Complete_Chrome_Engine_Dress_Up_Kit.html

I need new rocker covers anyway as mine are very rusty....and I want to tart up the engine a bit

....so is this worth the money? has any one got any experience of them? ....or should I steer clear?

your thoughts please

 

You might want to try bolt-up rocker covers - bit more bling, but some friends of mine have them, and say they leak less than the standard ones.

 

Save your money & get boggo black rocker covers from GSF.

 

I tried some bling rocker covers and they leaked like a sieve so new bails and covers and all well since!

 

save your money dude!! It's cheap Taiwanese chrome, so it'll start rusting as soon as you take the plastic off the parts!!

If you want some shiny rocker covers, splash some cash on the scat stainless ones!! Fit is spot on!!

 

I'm sure its not all Taiwanese tat, some of it is probably Chinese tat

 

can you not get original ones stripped and chrome dipped? no leak issues and chromed like you like?

B

 

chrome engine tins are a big no no in my book!! I'm pretty sure that I read some info a while back that stated that chrome holds in 40% more heat than just straight black tins!!

 

bloody hell! really?

 

Well the engine should still cool the same, but the engine will stay hotter for longer after the engine is switched off!!

 

Yes keep them black - standard cover and preserve your engine. It wont look cool broken down from no oil or overheating! Hahaha

 

thats settled it then with regards the rocker covers black or stainless it is

.....what about the other shiny bits

although I did wonder about the quality of the chrome!!!

 

If you like shiny, get your tins powder coated gloss black

 

I really can't see the point of a chrome kit for the engine bay, as Paul said it would end up rusting too quick. Surely some bright spark out there does a stainless steel kit?

You could get yourself a nice alloy pulley wheel instead, or maybe bling up your engine tin with some silver paint?

 

Oh for pitys sake just put that bus of yours on the road and sort the little touches down the line

The cost of that crap chrome dress up kit would give you and the family a day out in your bus

The wife and kids will love it and its a shakedown run for you to diagnose those little niggles

 

There will be no niggles Para.

 

step messing about, your just stalling now, I think its because you will be lost for how to fill your spare time when the vans not taking over, get posting more posts and pictures of running engines with black everything and chrome nothing . surely driving that zafira is destroying your sole

 

thanks guys ....all the points are taken .....the bling distracted me for a bit and I've dropped the idea lol!!

....so I'll start another thread about gaskets now

and davidoft ....yes the zafira is a PITA !! .......but my mate has offered to lend me his pimp mobile Merc for 6 months ......heated leather seats, DVD player, TV .....oooooh the extras

 

ok I'm back looking at shiney

stainless or bolt on ally rocker covers .....which are the best?

http://www.justkampers.com/vw-t2-ba.../scat-rocker-covers-pair-stainless-steel.html

http://www.justkampers.com/vw-t2-ba...w-aircooled-upright-engines-1960-onwards.html