Thanks for the advice guys, really appreciate it. As stupid as it sounds, never even thought of painting the engine with hammerite. Sounds like its going to be a bit of a pain de greasing the engine but will definatly be worth it once its done. Is there any particular bolts that you would recommend changing Pete? Your engine bay looks amazing by the way, love the samco hose's, been looking into getting some black ones once iv sorted the bay. Luke, it would be much easier to take my engine out like you did, just don't really have anywhere to do it other than my drive, so think its going