I know on the 6 cylinder engines you have a black BMW printed plastic cover. Is there one made for the m44 1.9 engine iv googled and ebayed till there was no pages left.
I was wondering if it was a specialist part that an independant supplier made for me to purchase.
Because iv dressed the engine fairly well but the metal has oxidized a little and its letting the rest down.
Never seen one. You could always take the cam cover off and paint it - someone on here (I forget who) painted theirs red - I'd have thought a matte-black painted cam cover would look pretty good.
The cover on your car has a totally different make-up to that on the 6 cylinder models and only 1 appears available for your engine - see illustrations below
BladeRunner919 wrote:Here's a post of someone doing blue:
A forum member called Zedonist started that thread but all his postings appear to have been removed?
Anyway, I read a posting my another forum member that oven cleaner works well if you simply end up cleaning the aluminium rocker cover on the M44 - not tried it myself yet.
The M44 is a very good-looking engine, so why cover it up? If the cam cover is dirty/corroded, then get to work and clean it!
If you prefer to spend money rather than actually DO something (a common ethic amongst today's owners, I'm afraid) then remove it and have it chemically cleaned, but toherose by somje deb Alltrans (Phospouric acid) to clean off the corrosion. Then get some coarse industrial steel wool, and regularly rub it until it takes on a rough shine. Alternatively, take it off and use a wire brush, or have a metal polishing company bring it to a mirror finish, which can be maintained with periodic use of Solvol Autosol.
You would then have somehting quite unusual, which would also be far better (and more tasteful) than all the powder coating in the world - looking rather like an old Jaguar engine..
Thanks very much for the comments on all different opinions on methods of improvement.
I like the blue but having a montreal blue car im not sure it would suit it that well when lifting the bonnet.
I like the idea of a chrome'd look like the old jaguar engines alot. Not sure what the rough cost of that would be mind you.
Im going to try the oven cleaner approach over the next week if the weather keeps up. Plus ill be respraying the middle cover black and silver when i get ahold of a couple tins of high temp paint.
Does anyone know of the pricing of chrome finishing a piece of metal like that? I just think that would be something really special when opening the bonnet to look at.
If the cover is aluminium, then chroming will be fairly pricey...if it steel, then it's quite reasonable. But if it is aluminium, then as suggested, get it well cleaned up, and use steel wool to get all the oxidation off...then take it off somewhere to be buffed and polished. Aluminium will come up like chrome when buffed and polished. Then it's just maintenance with a decent ally polish like Autosol.
The powder coating guys can match your car colour if you decide to go that route..
Chromed aluminium is the sort of thing you expect on a pimp's car! The subtle lustre of polished aluminium will contrast really well with your blue paintwork, and it is not that expensive, even though it is labour-intensive. Just take the car to any metal polishing outfit and ask for a price.
Be careful about using oven cleaner - a lot of them are alkaline, which is not kind to aluminium. If you do not want to have it polished, visit a motorcycle shop and see if they have any aluminium cleaner - they are all phosporic acid-based, and wash away with water - but they will damage cadmium or zinc plate on fasteners, if used in situ. Alternatively, think about silver powder coating.
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