Significance of rocker cover colour

[dombat]

Is there any reason why rocker covers are different colours (not custom paint jobs ? Mine is red and I see lots of blue.

 

[Mr GTiR]

Is there any reason why rocker covers are different colours (not custom paint jobs ? Mine is red and I see lots of blue.

No it's just persoanl preferance. They leave the factory as red.

In my case mine is polished.

 

[MORF114]

If you mean none custom paint job and your seeing blue cam covers your probably not looking at a R cam cover. probably a silvia or bluebird cam cover.

 

[Studlife]

or you could see a VVL NEO from a N15

 

[Keira]

red ones have 10bhp more :der: :lol:

 

[turboloon]

a purple one is usually a norris design fettled motor, but don't just go by the color of the rocker !!! my 'r has a stg1 norris engine, and on the paper work he charged the previous owner £100 for the rocker cover ...wtf, it's a rocker cover for feck sake,people just try and pull the pants over yer heid at any given oppertunity...grrrr rant over,ps forgot to say it is lightened and balanced lol!!

 

[davey red.r]

red ones have 10bhp more :der: :lol:

mine made 13bhp more, but ive an hks sticker on mine:lol:

 

[Scotty]

I have even been told that if you put twin go faster stripes on it like all those nova:doh: drivers you will get upto 18bhp:der:

 

[kenan]

I have even been told that if you put twin go faster stripes on it like all those nova:doh: drivers you will get upto 18bhp:der:

But only if you get them the right way round else they cause drag ;-)

 

[butch1234]

But only if you get them the right way round else they cause drag ;-)

so thats where i have been going wrong all these years cheers bud :doh: :lol:

 

[MORF114]

a purple one is usually a norris design fettled motor, but don't just go by the color of the rocker !!! my 'r has a stg1 norris engine, and on the paper work he charged the previous owner £100 for the rocker cover ...wtf, it's a rocker cover for feck sake,people just try and pull the pants over yer heid at any given oppertunity...grrrr rant over

I certainly wouldnt paint one for free, i agree on his price of 100 quid. for the work that is involved to do it properly and the proper paints and sundries etc its a reasonable price considering its not a 1 hour job.

I can repair and paint any panel on a car and charge more money in less time it takes to do a rocker cover properly back to ali.