Painted my valve cover

[zb12691]

Painted this im my bath tub because its to cold outside to paint. just finished it up.
i polished the honda than put vaseline on it. than primerd it and painted. than took off the vaseline. and now it sits. what do you think?

 

[Heyits750]

props for painting it in the shower

 

[civic99coupe]

looks great... i plan to do mines when summer comes around

 

[EK|B]

Sweet.

 

[terceltyler]

looks great... i plan to do mines when summer comes around

Just do it in the bathtub

 

[boosted to 26ps]

looks nice.....like the metalic look

 

[iBeast]

very nice

 

[JohnS.]

I personally don't like SOHC painted valve covers. They look goofy when they're installed.

They look decent off the car though . Good job.

 

[zb12691]

i got bored. im off for five days and getting a integra mon. he valve cover gasket was leaking and i had some polish laying around. so i got the gaskets and painted it. my parents were pissed when they came home friday and the house smelled like spray paint

 

[mylovehx]

looks pretty good!

 

[fvelasco89]

this is what im planning on doing to mine, looks great. can you briefly expain the steps on how you did it?

 

[SlowTEC]

I've never heard of the Vaseline trick. Doing mine when I get back, I might try it...

 

[zimzim]

that came out really nice! way better than alot of valve cover paint jobs ive seen

 

[zb12691]

this is what im planning on doing to mine, looks great. can you briefly expain the steps on how you did it?

1) use aircraft stripper to clean it alll off. (only because i had other paint on there. or needed for other valve covers with the black crinkly paint)

2) use the purple power or what ever degreaser you can to clean it all up

3) polish what ever you want polished and clean up any rough areas

4) tape up the areas you dont want painted( spark plug tubes...etc)

5) put vaseline on the H O N D A / V T E C or anything you polished that you want to show, and in any acrew holes you need to use later.

6) primer all of it thats going to be painted. paint the vaseline to so it will get in around the words

7) paint all the primer

8) let dry real good and then wipe off the vaseline

9) its all done. dont forget to use high temp paint. 500 degrees will be fine. i used regular metalic textured finish paint and it gets kinda soft when it gets real hot. but i just dont touch it or move it when its hot. its not running off yet

10) dupli-color makes good paint

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