Engine compartment details - stickers and black paint.
Discussion
On a couple of other threads I have talked about the 'incident' that is leading to a repaint, as well as a thread on painting it red versus yellow...
Now another topic.
With a full repaint I am looking at doing a tidy up of the engine bay. I have seen many photos of cars that are body colour right up to the heat shields, however my 1994 as a sort of black paint in that region.
What is right? Did it differ from car to car?
Also, if I do paint that area I am able to drill out the rivets on the main information plate, but there are a couple of stickers. I would be a bit surprised if there is a source of replacement stickers, but fingers crossed thought I should ask - anyone know of a source?
Cheers,
Rob.
Now another topic.
With a full repaint I am looking at doing a tidy up of the engine bay. I have seen many photos of cars that are body colour right up to the heat shields, however my 1994 as a sort of black paint in that region.
What is right? Did it differ from car to car?
Also, if I do paint that area I am able to drill out the rivets on the main information plate, but there are a couple of stickers. I would be a bit surprised if there is a source of replacement stickers, but fingers crossed thought I should ask - anyone know of a source?
Cheers,
Rob.
There were a couple of ex factory chaps at the Growl selling obsolete tvr parts and I think that was their business name from memory. They might well be able to supply the stickers you need as I was asking them about some for mine. They didn't have a pre-cat e mark approval sticker(the long chrome type with blue writing) that I wanted but even then they said they could get some reproduced.
Your underbonnet colour should be satin black finish as original by the way,oh and another vote for the original yellow here
Your underbonnet colour should be satin black finish as original by the way,oh and another vote for the original yellow here
So, not great photos - but here are the ones mine has...
position of stickers...
top sticker...
next...
bottom...
And to be complete there is a sticker on the brake fluid bottle as well...
There are two others, but they are plates, and just need to be removed during painting, and replaced later.
I would assume these are best recreated, rather than attempting to use the photo image. Just a matter of measuring them up, finding the right font and point size, getting colour of print correct, and the base material (foil / white plastic).
If originals are out there, that certainly would be my first choice.
The brake bottle sticker on the other hand may be a common sticker amongst many cars, so may be easier to source. Also, I can pretty much leave it alone anyway.
Cheers.
position of stickers...
top sticker...
next...
bottom...
And to be complete there is a sticker on the brake fluid bottle as well...
There are two others, but they are plates, and just need to be removed during painting, and replaced later.
I would assume these are best recreated, rather than attempting to use the photo image. Just a matter of measuring them up, finding the right font and point size, getting colour of print correct, and the base material (foil / white plastic).
If originals are out there, that certainly would be my first choice.
The brake bottle sticker on the other hand may be a common sticker amongst many cars, so may be easier to source. Also, I can pretty much leave it alone anyway.
Cheers.
cavebloke said:
Although you can see this one isn't much use for reproduction:
But it does show us that the text on these stickers will have changed over the years. Perhaps we will need people to type out the contents of theirs to cover the different types. Yours has lots of gaps, but perhaps someone has a complete one that matches up with the variant and age of your car.I have approached a number of people for these two stickers - type approval and the silver and blue ones and a guy in Ireland was supposed to be sending me samples but its all gone quiet. I will chase him up next week and post up but don't hold out much hope. There were about 10 people interested in a group buy.
When I did my engine bay the stickers peeled off almost intact and I've scanned them attached to a sheet of paper. The scan doesnt work well due to reflection. If anyone can suggest a better way of copying them to a digital file without reflection they could be used as a template? These are from a late '94 Griff - dont know if they vary from year to year?
Hi guys you can get those stickers from Surface and Design in Blackpool.
That's were Mike from Obsolete TVR (who was at the Growl) works.
They reproduced mine after my recent repair work. I can post pictures if required. I also had a different sticker on mine that they hadn't seen before, possibly as it had been abroad for a couple of years in it'; early life.
That's were Mike from Obsolete TVR (who was at the Growl) works.
They reproduced mine after my recent repair work. I can post pictures if required. I also had a different sticker on mine that they hadn't seen before, possibly as it had been abroad for a couple of years in it'; early life.
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