The first of the gold and chrome bits for the engine bay have arrived. A pair of bonnet catches, chrome with gold fittings and spring. Also a gold oil cap and gold screws and washers for the wings. Not a whole lot to say about them other than they look good. I'm sure you know what the bits look like so I'll leave photos until they're on the car.
The main bulk of the gold parts for the engine bay will be taken up with all the nuts, bolts and clips, we still need to draw up a complete list once we work out the sizes of everything, I can tell that's going to be a pain.
The plan for the engine and engine bay is to keep it fairly standard, not totally shaven like many show cars. The exception being the hidden wiring and relocated battery.
We'll be going with chrome/mirror polished components, everything except for the block, with gold plated highlight pieces, mainly fixings, in order to create, what should be, an extremely beautiful engine bay.
Initially we planned on just sticking to mirror polished components but that's pretty common these days. The addtion of gold plated highlights should, hopefully, lift it above the majority of engines. We'll be doing all the mirror polishing ourselves. I had considered trying my hand at gold plating but it's fairly pricey to get setup and so decided to leaves it to the experts.
Here's how the engine and engine bay looked on delivery. Well, actually not quite, as the rocker cover had been painted black since this photo was taken.
It's been upgraded to a MK2 16v running Weber Alpha throttle bodies and Webcon ECU together with a Supersprint stainless steel manifold and exhaust system, a catch tank has also been added. The engine was rebuilt recently and all ancillaries were replaced.
Wiring has already been hidden and the battery relocated, saving some work. All in all neat and clean but not show quality. This will be the main focus of phase 1 of our project.
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