Tarting up airboxes?

[alinton]

Anyone any tips on how to tart up my airboxes?

Sorry, I mean aesthetically improve them.

They're looking a bit faded and tired.

(know how they feel!)

A.

[plumAJP]

light sand with 1000 grit. then some gloss black spray paint maybe plastikote (not sure if they can take he heat) maybe hammerite or try and find a gloss black high heat spray paint.

get them nice and glossy like new.

check cliveF's thread and r8nans thread for pictures of glossy airboxes

[caduceus]

I just made fibre glass repairs to the round outlets that the pipes go onto. Then sprayed them gloss black. Now they look better than the rest of the airbox, which is looking a bit tired. But after such a long resto, I can't be bothered to do the boxes too.
I have seen airboxes in black gloss that look fantastic. But I assumed they were professionally done. Who does them I don't know...

[plumAJP]

a body shop could do it, or have a go a hero. £10 a can from homebase or halfords one can should do one box. if it doesnt work out take it to a body shop would be looking at roughly £50 to paint the 2 air boxes i imagine

[SimonKD]

Mine had picked up a few scratches so I recently had them resprayed. I removed the oil catch pot myself and degreased them as best I could. The undersides were crazed from the heat from the manifolds. Anyway was told by the guy where I took them that proper prep would take a bit of time due to their intricate shape and this would be reflected in the total price. Picked them up two days later looking like brand new. Total cost £115, expensive but I'm very pleased with the result.
Regards
Simon

[Storer]

SimonKD
Smart engine bay. My airboxes are carbon fibre look - were yours before painting? Also, where did you get the blue induction pipes from? My purple ones are looking very second hand now. How long have they been on the car?

[SimonKD]

Storer said:

SimonKD
Smart engine bay. My airboxes are carbon fibre look - were yours before painting? Also, where did you get the blue induction pipes from? My purple ones are looking very second hand now. How long have they been on the car?

I think all airboxes were fibreglass painted in plain gloss black on the later cars. Think the earlier cars had carbon fibre effect airboxes.

Standard purple pipes are available from TVR Power mine have done around 5000 miles and are just starting to turn brown around the ends near the inlet manifold. The standard type induction pipes are also available in black from Clevor Trevor see here http://www.tvrspareparts.com/cars/1-cerbera-v8.htm... 21st item down.

Regards
Simon