I know this topic was brought up in the past, but i have just read all the posts about painting a valve cover from when this topic was posted. I know to use a high temperature heat paint, but what brand paint & if I were to powder coat it, would it be better? If i altered the stock paint, would there be a chance of rust?

Please help me on this topic

My goal is to paint the valve cover red & leave the mitsubishi letters silver like this one on ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...spagename=WDVW

 

powder coating it is hella expensive, just for a single piece. and you don't really need high-temp paint. normal paint can stand up to about 300F, your car shouldn't be even near that, especially the valve cover. Krylon makes decent paints, rustoleum is great too. Like a lot of things, you get what you pay for. I wouldn't say buy the most expensive paint out there, but don't use the $1 can either

 

I'm painting mine blue either this weekend or next. I bought this:

Duplicolor Metalcast Anodized Color I bought the ground coat and then the blue for the finish color. Picked it up at like Advanced Auto Parts. It's like $4 bucks a so for the can. Got 1 can each.

 

that metalcast looks like thats good stuff, Gracias for your help, i'll run to autozone today and pick some up

 

under that metalcast website there are 2 different kinds of paint for valve covers. one is the metal cast and the other is the engine enamel & high heat paint. Which one is better? There on the same site under products

http://duplicolor.com/products/engine.html

 

I think the Metalcast will be fine just because the valve cover doesn't get very hot. It heats up but not at extreme temps. Make sure you get the ground coat. This is what I'm doing:

-Clean valve cover
-Sand it
-Ground coat it....2 coats
-Blue Metalcast...3 coats

I ordered the suspension bars from Rob @ RDDesigns PDX Set and this is the stuff he uses for his bars so I'm matching the bars he's making for me to the valve cover so all will match.

You should be fine with that. When are you doing this? I might do it tomorrow after work and Saturday or just next weekend not sure.

 

if you guys could please post some pics of the finished product i would appreciate it. i would like to see how the metalcast looks on.

 

Will do. I think it'll come out good.

 

yeah, and is it really hard to get the valve cover off? or what?

 

Doesn't look like it:

https://www.evolutionm.net/features/...orner&id=19&s=

So far with everything I read I heard no complaints.

 

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.

 

i painted my valve cover myself.. i didn't even sand it.. check it out in my ride registry

 

^ Looks nice, Jeff. How is the paint holding?

 

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!

 

i like the blue paint, looks good. For me everything under my hood is red. Red strut, red intake & well red ground wire kit, which i still need to find out how to do that, like in the directions it says connect to the enigine block or something, uhh i dunno thats another project i will tackle sometime soon.

I'll post pics of the metalcast when im done I think it will look good. I might try the enamal because its more glossy. Supposidly there the same thing except one is high gloss for the shinyness and the metalcast is more dull