These are not the sickest so i did not feel they should be put in the other thread. but if this needs to be merged then thats ok.
These are ones i have done, kinda like a side hobby. enjoy.
I am unsure how many of you care about your engine bay... but i enjoy experimenting with airbrush art on valve covers.. I am about to post a ton of pictures of a few i have done, i do not have photos of all of them.
I would like to dedicate this thread for you to show yours off as well.
to start off this is a thread dedicated to valve covers and their appearence.. the ones i post are ones i have done for some of you and for others.
Please post your setup with yours. :tu:
show them off!!!
Their are many ways to prep your cover, and in time i will post up my step by step process... goodluck on your covers
step 1. obtain preffered cover.
step 2. clean the heck out of the cover top and bottom with degreasers such as, oven cleaner, laquere thinner, mineral spirits, gasoline, paint stripper, etc.. their shouldn't be any grease residue on it at all when you have finished.
step 3. shave any leatters or holesdown flush, and use an angle grinder with either 36 grit or 50 grit to do this, also be sure to go around all the edges and clean them up to a smoothfinish, before either sandblasting or orbital sanding, or heck sanding by hand. *make sure all oem paint is off.*
here are some photos of some of the stripping process i use... alot of times i shave the back lip on the h22 cover, but this time i will be intensifying the line instead.
every edge gets smoothed..
step 4. obtain ppg self etching primer, *it helps eat into the alluminum*
put 2 coats of etch primer and then 4 coats of ppg high build primer.
step 5. I sand down all the pieces with 180 grit paper and normally reprime 3 coats.
step 6. i use a 3m soft block and block the cover with 320 grit and then. Making sure all imperfections that bother me are gone.
step 7. I now by hand wetsand the cover with 3m 500 grit sand paper, the finish should not have any orange peal whatso ever. that includes no runs, no dry spots or rough texture at all.
ok like i said prep work is what makes the slick sweet cover so slick and sweet. i will add photos in the how 2 asap.
more steps will be added.
I use the same area and tools that i work on cars to also do these valve covers.
a few pics of ym work area when i have had a verry long work week. I'll have it clean monday and some clean photos.
few of my guns, from left to right, my satajet nr2000 with 1.4 head, i use it for sealer and basecoat, it's awsome at laying all solids and metalic and pearls.
next is my digital satajet 3000, with 1.3 tip, i use this only for candy and clearcoat.
next is my sata i use for priming 1.4 tip.
next is a cheapo gun with a 1.5 tip i use for spray mask, and the one on top is my devilibis plus, with a 1.4 tip, great for basecoat as well.
we use 3m pps cups,, what a mess. this will be clean monday. we keep our left over paint till the vehicle has left, just in case.
my scale and computer for the paint system, we also run our shop radio off the internet from here.
we swapped to spies heck paint this year.... not to big a fan, but it's great to be able to use tso many products and meet so many new people in the paint world.
my visual tint chart for matalics and pearls.
our Garmat downdraft climate controlled booth.
can't leave out the cb7 valve cover being primed in the booth..
my work area in our shop.
up close of the guns i use the most.
my son the future painter. when he doesn't try to eat the gun.
here are a few. motorcycles in the work, i don't normally post them, but they aren't customers yet, i will be selling them.
you'll notice i use high flow air fittings for all my satajets, the devilibiss does not need it.
These are ones i have done, kinda like a side hobby. enjoy.
I am unsure how many of you care about your engine bay... but i enjoy experimenting with airbrush art on valve covers.. I am about to post a ton of pictures of a few i have done, i do not have photos of all of them.
I would like to dedicate this thread for you to show yours off as well.
to start off this is a thread dedicated to valve covers and their appearence.. the ones i post are ones i have done for some of you and for others.
Please post your setup with yours. :tu:
show them off!!!
Their are many ways to prep your cover, and in time i will post up my step by step process... goodluck on your covers
step 1. obtain preffered cover.
step 2. clean the heck out of the cover top and bottom with degreasers such as, oven cleaner, laquere thinner, mineral spirits, gasoline, paint stripper, etc.. their shouldn't be any grease residue on it at all when you have finished.
step 3. shave any leatters or holesdown flush, and use an angle grinder with either 36 grit or 50 grit to do this, also be sure to go around all the edges and clean them up to a smoothfinish, before either sandblasting or orbital sanding, or heck sanding by hand. *make sure all oem paint is off.*
here are some photos of some of the stripping process i use... alot of times i shave the back lip on the h22 cover, but this time i will be intensifying the line instead.
every edge gets smoothed..
step 4. obtain ppg self etching primer, *it helps eat into the alluminum*
put 2 coats of etch primer and then 4 coats of ppg high build primer.
step 5. I sand down all the pieces with 180 grit paper and normally reprime 3 coats.
step 6. i use a 3m soft block and block the cover with 320 grit and then. Making sure all imperfections that bother me are gone.
step 7. I now by hand wetsand the cover with 3m 500 grit sand paper, the finish should not have any orange peal whatso ever. that includes no runs, no dry spots or rough texture at all.
ok like i said prep work is what makes the slick sweet cover so slick and sweet. i will add photos in the how 2 asap.
more steps will be added.
I use the same area and tools that i work on cars to also do these valve covers.
a few pics of ym work area when i have had a verry long work week. I'll have it clean monday and some clean photos.
few of my guns, from left to right, my satajet nr2000 with 1.4 head, i use it for sealer and basecoat, it's awsome at laying all solids and metalic and pearls.
next is my digital satajet 3000, with 1.3 tip, i use this only for candy and clearcoat.
next is my sata i use for priming 1.4 tip.
next is a cheapo gun with a 1.5 tip i use for spray mask, and the one on top is my devilibis plus, with a 1.4 tip, great for basecoat as well.
we use 3m pps cups,, what a mess. this will be clean monday. we keep our left over paint till the vehicle has left, just in case.
my scale and computer for the paint system, we also run our shop radio off the internet from here.
we swapped to spies heck paint this year.... not to big a fan, but it's great to be able to use tso many products and meet so many new people in the paint world.
my visual tint chart for matalics and pearls.
our Garmat downdraft climate controlled booth.
can't leave out the cb7 valve cover being primed in the booth..
my work area in our shop.
up close of the guns i use the most.
my son the future painter. when he doesn't try to eat the gun.
here are a few. motorcycles in the work, i don't normally post them, but they aren't customers yet, i will be selling them.
you'll notice i use high flow air fittings for all my satajets, the devilibiss does not need it.
keep it up
your amazing man 