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  1. 23rd July 2016, 08:30 AM #1
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    S3 Game Engine Bay Colours?

    G'day All,

    I picked myself up an S3 Game from Tassie last Friday, it has a Nissan ED 30 diesel in it with a blown head gasket.

    I have pulled the head off and am now able to reach most of the engine bay.

    So whilst I can, I'm having a bit of a clean up removing almost 40 years of grime and dodgy wiring etc....

    Some time in it's history someone has hand painted the engine bay with bitumen tar stuff which is over everything and stuck what looks like carpet underlay too! I'm presently removing it to see what lurks underneath!

    My question is what colours was the engine bay originally???

    The underside of the bonnet is presently black, I guess it used to be body colour?

    The bulkhead is white (replaced?) I guess this should be body colour too?

    Inside of the front guards are faded body colour.

    Front section is black along with the front section of engine bay, which looks original?

    Thanks in advance
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  2. 23rd July 2016, 09:34 AM #2
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    I'm no expert on the Game but I think the bulkhead was painted silver, engine bay would be body colour.

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  3. 23rd July 2016, 09:58 AM #3
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    cant help you with the colour Mate but can empathise with that tar/ underlay stuff - the Diesel I'm pulling apart at the moment had the firewall / floor / seat box covered in it - it appeared to have ben stuck on + pop riveted. Some of it had decayed almost to mush. Lovely! Maybe it was a Tassie thing?!
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    Thumbs up colours

    Hi,
    my game has satin black inner guards with the yellow on the actual inside top parts of the guards, front outside grill panel and front of guards also satin black. Firewall silver and on mine same as aluminium spray packs so easy to touch up.
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    Inside the engine bay should all be devil yellow and the firewall is silver, kind of looks like it is galvanised but isn't really.

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  6. 24th July 2016, 10:28 AM #6
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    Thanks everyone for your replies,

    I am probably going to upset the purists with this.

    I think I will use a combination of yellow devil and black in the engine bay I'm not trying to build concourse vehicle, because it's to far gone from original now anyway, just clean it up best I can so the bulkhead will probably end up yellow.

    Priority is to stop the rot and try to be empathetic to the original as much as the budget will allow.

    At the moment I'm still just trying to get the engine bay clean!

    Cheers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dark61 View Post
    cant help you with the colour Mate but can empathise with that tar/ underlay stuff - the Diesel I'm pulling apart at the moment had the firewall / floor / seat box covered in it - it appeared to have ben stuck on + pop riveted. Some of it had decayed almost to mush. Lovely! Maybe it was a Tassie thing?!
    cheers,
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