Not sure if this thread should be here...but its to make parts more showy so, if it should have been in the how to section(Dont know how to yet), sorry to the mods.

ANYWAY, I'm in the process of trying to paint my valve cover and spark plug cover. I'm REALLY picky about how they're turning out. I keep finding little pieces of dust on them that dried in the coat of paint i just sprayed on. Can anyone give me a good way to make a clean work area so I dont have to worry about this? Thanks in advance.

 

im sure when its installed you wont be able to notice or itll just burn away....and pleeeeease tell me you didnt spray paint them with anything other than a high temp paint with a high temp clear coat.


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Honestly the only advice i can give you is to try to imiatate a paint booth. Paint booths work by sucking the air through filters either a side draft booth or a down draft booth. Now i know you do not have 160K or the space to buy your own downdraft but here is a trick that might work for your job. Put up some plastic wall and secure them fairly well, then in one of them cut out a hole big enough for a decent sized box fan and viola you have a crusty side draft booth of your very own. I can not say how well it work but it might help. The booths I use at my job are killer down drafts. Also wet the floors down when you start spraying and use low air pressure on your gun(your using a HVLP gun right???) If you prepped your parts good enough and are using good tools( Sata NR2000 is my weapon of choice) and wiping down your parts with a good degreaser and then a tak cloth you should be ok. Hope this helps, later

 

Oh yea another thing you could attempt but unless you have a painting background i do not recommend this is, try to color sand and rub (BUFFING) the parts. Now this would prolly be a hard as hell thing to do cause the parts are not exactly huge and holding the part and a buffer could lead to disasterious results, but it can be done, you really do not think your car came all nice and flat with no trash or dirt in it do you???? so buffing could help you out. If you have any ??? feel free to PM me and i will gladly help you out with some advice or something, I am an I-CAR cert painter and will gladly help out the Evo comm.

 

I have seen people make a booth for themselves using a tent, but obviously you should be wearing a vent mask and the tent should be clean first

 

Worry not. Its that heat resistant duplicolor stuff for polished surfaces(plug cover) and i'm gona use high temp black with high temp clear for the cam cover.

 

not usin a gun, good ol fashion spray can. I gues I'll try to make a makeshift booth that can double as a biochemical fallout shelter

 

All of this..... painting is not my forte at ALL, hence the thread. I like to think i got some good common sense and hell, maybe i'm being too picky but i thought it would be enough to just do it in an open garage that i keep pretty clean. Guess not.

 

This is a good idea(I think at least, anyone with real expertise, please chime in). I'm gonna give that a shot. I got a tent i havent used in a few years.

 

wet the ground with some water, to keep the dust down. for small stuff you can build a small little plastic enclosure out of wood and some plastic wrap. Once you get done painting it then, buff it, wax it, buff it and wax it some more. the buff and wax will help fill any lumps or holes there may in the paint.

 

Thanks for the tips. i'll try that if the tent doesn't work

 

You know the tent is a good idea.. lighting might be an issue and use a good box fan at one end of the tent facing away from where you are spraying and wet the floors and i bet you will be amazed at how much this helps. Good call JDM and like JDM said wear a respirator..overspray on lungs is not good for you LOL

 

its not?