Post pictures of your DIY style valve covers
Looking for some ideas, lets see what you guys have.
Lets put: What brand of paint, rattle can, powdercoated ect.. Time between coats Temp of day during drying process Time between final coat and install Post up! |
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I'll play.
What brand of paint, rattle can, powdercoated ect: Dupli COlor Engine Enamel, rattle can Time between coats: 2 days Temp of day during drying process: 80*F Time between final coat and install: Sold it after painting. Also, I bead blasted and primed it before painting it. I think I put 3 coats of yellow on it, sanding between coats of course. Attachment 210624 I used some crinkle pant from autozone on this one. VC was bead blasted and primed. 15 minutes between 3 light coats. 90*F Sold a month later. Attachment 210625 This one got the works. Used black Dupli Color on this one. All casting marks removed, generally smoothed out for a cleaner look, bead blasted, polished raised lettering, then primed and 3-4 coats sanding between coats with 2 days between coats. Took a while but it came out nice. Bead blasted, casting marks removed, and polished raised lettering. Attachment 210626 After priming: Attachment 210627 Finished Attachment 210628 |
damn, i been wanting to do this, but have so much other shit....nice job to all so far...
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that last one looks familiar pat...
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Originally Posted by patsmx5
(Post 317974)
That looks damn good. How much do you charge? __________________ Best Car Insurance | Auto Protection Today | FREE Trade-In Quote |
I think I paid $60 or $70 for that valve cover.
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Originally Posted by paul
(Post 317998)
I think I paid $60 or $70 for that valve cover.
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VHT Wrinkle Plus (Black) - Cheapest that I found was to buy 2+ on Ebay, came out to be less than $10 a can.
I sand blasted the valve cover, then set it up under spot lights until it was hot to the touch. I layed on a heavy coat, as heavy as I could without running, then after a few minutes went back and touched up whatever I missed before the paint started curing. I let it sit under the lights for a few hours, then sanded off the paint on the raised lettering the next day. It has lasted a season so far, only thing that sucks is trying to clean oil off it. I would have preferred to use an oven since thats what the directions recommended, but I sure as hell wasn't baking it in my house. This paint STINKS when warmed up. Letting it dry with no heat makes the wrinkles really deep, but letting it dry at the max temp makes them very tight and more consistent, which I prefer. |
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Crappy white balance in that photo, but its a really pretty color. Red Rum Wrinkle powder coating. Don't have the balls to hit the Embossed lettering with the sander... :bang: |
I think it looks good with the lettering red instead of silver.
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Originally Posted by Fireindc
(Post 318052)
I think it looks good with the lettering red instead of silver.
For the record, that blue "Mazdaspeed" oil cap (5$ on ebay...:jerkit:) isn't blue anymore.. it faded to purple. :bowrofl: |
Originally Posted by levnubhin
(Post 318001)
I have the cover. How much to get it to look like that?
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Originally Posted by thesnowboarder
(Post 318021)
99 intake manifold with a 1.6 valve cover?
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Originally Posted by thesnowboarder
(Post 318021)
99 intake manifold with a 1.6 valve cover?
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Rattle can Red High heat paint with several hours between coats.....did not finish sand except for the lettering due to time restraints and haven't bothered going back to finish it. Painted in the summer during low humidity with around 85-90* abmbient in the garage.
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Mine was <$100 for powder coating two colors and three pieces. To many others things to do on the car for me to spend time on that. :giggle:
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Is that the FE cover? Its hot. I tried getting mine powder coated, but my local shop was making a ton of excuses of why they "couldn't do it" so I just did it myself.
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Originally Posted by m2cupcar
(Post 318074)
Mine was <$100 for powder coating two colors and three pieces. To many others things to do on the car for me to spend time on that. :giggle:
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