Painting Valve Cover Red
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OMG YES GET THIS PAINT! My buddy and I did our valve covers today, and let me tell you...this paint is by far the best there is. It enhances metallic surfaces and gives a nice deep color. IMHO, this paint is better than the stock painted valve covers on the Evos. I'll probably be the last to post pix, but it's all good. I'm very happy with it!
Originally Posted by timdog4life
im actually doing the exact same thing that sthiewes is doing with the exact same paint. I already painted my rmr strut bar and my radiator brackets.....they turned out really nice.
you can view a pick in my registry to see what the end result looks like with the paint.
you can view a pick in my registry to see what the end result looks like with the paint.
Looks good though. Nice job so far.
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i thnk i'll sand before i paint.
I haven't had the time to stop at autozone yet, Ive been a little busy, im visiting Washington college today, so hopefully on my way home i could pick up some metalcast
I haven't had the time to stop at autozone yet, Ive been a little busy, im visiting Washington college today, so hopefully on my way home i could pick up some metalcast
Last edited by thursday448; Apr 15, 2005 at 05:57 AM. Reason: typo
all of this is really helpful. hopefully i will be painting my valve cover and radiator brackets soon. BTW your ride looks really good jeff.
Last edited by mitsuman6; Apr 15, 2005 at 10:41 AM.
Originally Posted by twentyone
^ Looks nice, Jeff. How is the paint holding?
jeff
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Originally Posted by jeff
i bought some engine enamel at Advance Auto Parts for like 4.95$ it can withstand up to like 600 degrees or some insane number.. i painted my valve cover last summer and today its still as shinny as it was.. just make sure to take your time on it and it will turn out good.. but note for the first month i had it on my car my car gave off a weird smell from i guess the paint baking on the valve cover or something. anyways that smell is gone now so its all good..
jeff
jeff
Hmm... same thing happened on my friends Ford Escort,
took a while for it to go away though... It even smoked
for a bit.
Originally Posted by skylancer
what about gasket? do we need to change to the new one or we can reuse the existing one? also do we need to clean the bottom of the value cover before paint & putting back on?
no need to replace the valve cover gasket as long as you dont rip it off when take off your cover.. remember our cars are some what brand new (02-03) the valve cover gasket for our cars are good for another ten years probaly...
ohh and today i washed/waxed my car and i waxed my valve cover and u can see ur reflection in it
later
Originally Posted by mitsuman6
all of this is really helpful. hopefully i will be painting my valve cover and radiator brackets soon. BTW your ride looks really good jeff.
thanks man i work with what i got, i need to post some new pics considering i have a few more mods
S2000 attenna
dynamat trunk
upgraded 15 woofer to alpine type -r
carbon fiber tails
evo style carbon fiber grill
mmmm pretty. I how u left the letters silver. And I like the ralliart oilcap. How did you do the letters? Tape them off by putting a big piece of tape over it and then cutting around it with a razor blade?
