Show off your painted valve covers.

 

sorry to jack your thread...i have a question about painting the valve cover. if you paint it, will the paint be able to resist the heat from the motor? i don't want to paint it and then it starts to bubble because it gets so hot.


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Like cubano69 said...show off your painted valve covers.

 

ok well ill have pics up later but buy the paint "dupli-color" hi-heat engine paint it comes in verious colors and holds up real good...

 

are we talking valve covers (the metal bit where the spark plugs are) or engine covers (that has vvt-i and 16 valve on it)?

 

Heres my Engine Cover


A few pic of my TC
http://www.scinister.com/gallery2.php?g2_itemId=60

I like the engine cover. Even with the valve cover painted,
Like the ZPI one, I dont like seeing the Spark plug wires and all.

 

Courtesy of ZPI Racing
ZPI FTW! Its a gloss black and its holding up great!

http://www.zeropointindustries.net/g...trice/100_2387

 

heres mine

 

Im talking about the plastic cover over the engine.

 

You can use any paint you want on the engine cover. It's made of plastic, and can only withstand about 250º-- any spray paint can manage that.

I painted mine bodymatch IIP, but eventually got good and sick of the plastic thing, and got rid of it. Now, it's a crinkle-finish red cam cover, and black covertrim.

 

If you're talking about the plastic cover over the engine, that's the ENGINE cover.. the Valve cover is what Doc Iso has showing in his pic.

 

mine

powdercoated.



pm me if interested. anycolor.

 

Looking good. Keep them coming.

 

Here's mine, its an old pic and my second try at painting it. I have bubbling around the headers now. Thinking of just buying the CF cover.

 

how much does the stock cover weight, or better yet how much weight do you save by going with the carbon fiber one?

 

You don't buy a carbon fiber engine cover to save weight. You buy it because you want bling. If you want to save about a pound, take the cover off and throw it in your closet.

 

LOL, couldn't say it better myself.

 

well thats why i asked, i didnt know how much it weighed, otherwise i wouldnt have asked how much the CF one weighs either. a pound or not its still less weight though, which reminds me how when my friend would run his mustang at the track we removed freaking EVERYTHING we could it was pretty funny, im talkin like even the cup holders and his stash of toothpicks lol

 

do u need to sand it before u paint it? and what can i use to make it glossy?

 

You do not need to sand it, but you will either need to use a plastic-specific paint, such as Krylon Fusion, or an adhesion promoter like Bulldog or Bond-Aid in conjunction with regular paint.

Krylon will give you a good gloss with virtually no prep-- the only downside to it is the limited palette of colors.

 

what about dupli-color hi-heat engine paint? are they any good? do they come with a good gloss?