Proctas Rover Metro GTA 16v

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a nice little treat for you as with the weather been a *******! I have stock piled a few parts for the HDI and Metro, Now this little treat, wasn't really planned, yet. but since I have put this engine in, its been bugging me a little, on how it looked.

Anyway, I bought some oil that elise parts recommend, its slightly thinker than the stuff I got in, so it should help the tapping noise and general starting up etc. also I bought a new rocker cover gasket, as I think the old one as had it, plus I didn't change it. when I dropped this lump in, but didn't as getting the ******* running was the main job, and get the car back together, back then!
after having a browse on there, I bought a some anti squeal pads for car too, but an idea that has bugged me a bit was the engine.

remember it looking like this?



crap isn't it,
so today, after I done the droplinks on the HDi, I decided that I knew this gasket on this was a quick job! (30 mins!) compared to the HDIs job and half gasket change!
so I stripped the rocker cover,
My hands were blue at this point so the pics blurry,



rocker cover off





I checked the old one and it was pretty much had it, so I wiped off the oil, around the head. so the new gasket isn't dirty and stop it from slipping off.

new gasket place on, and took my time in making sure it seated spot on.



Now here's your little treat!


here's the oil cap

that was found by mistake, as the elise parts looked like a cheep copy with a sticker on,
so after I saw that, I thought **** it I will buy this




yeah, I decided to buy a linished cam cover and with a nice stainless steal oil cam to go with it!








a treat for you are what eh! made the engine look more refreshed tbh.