im painting my valve cover and cant exactly figure out how to strip the paint. other than sand it for ever, is there a fast way? and also do i really need to strip the paint? and i may be interested in giving it a smoothe surface rather than the rough surface it has now. how would i go about that?

 

Aircraft paint stripper, it does wonders...

 

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yeah that is what i used. it does work wonders

 

The rough surface you speak of is just the kind of paint they used, so strip it, sand it a little, and use some other type of paint, the kind they use on valve covers is like "Wrinkled texture" or something...

 

polished valve cover ftw. lol.

 

I've actually seen one painted chrome, more like ftl...

 

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Yeh that a little too much for me.

http://www.mtncolors.com/
^This is a Spanish company that makes custom colored rattle cans for graffiti. They had a write-up in Honda tuning about them. People have had pretty good results painting their valve covers with this paint. Its all about the prep work.

 

what about like, theres a rough surface on the paint. what if i sand the roughness down? ive done that but i cant get the paint completely off. would this work ok?

 

You could sand blast it. that wouldn't help your "rough surface" problem but it would take care of the paint.

 

Just go to home depot and get regular spray can paint stripper and sand blast it after and then clear coat that.... CLEAN...

 

this is a dumb question....how do you sandblast?

 

To sand blast you put your valve cover in the sand blast booth and then spray it with sand.

 

gotcha. well i dont have a sandblast booth

 

ok well nvm i bought this stuff at advanced auto parts, and its amazing. you spray it on, leave it for 10 mins and then i wiped it off with a rag like dirt, sprayed the rest off with a hose. awesome stuff.

 

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that would be the paint stripper everyone was telling you about.

Make sure you get all that **** out from your valve cover. Spray the **** out of it with a hose. Spray in the inside of your valve cover out with a hose and then shake it dry. Spray the whole thing with brake cleaner. Inside, outside, everything.

Shake it out again to make sure you get all the bigger puddles out. Put it in the oven at like 250 for a while till it's completely dry.

 

o yeah i was thinkin of takin the pressure washer to it. after the paint stripper has eaten at it.

 

do that and then wipe it down with acetone when your done because that stuff will leave an oily residue. Then just paint it, might want to get high temp, and clear coat it also.

 

yeah if u dont get high heat and clear it it will melt off and run down all over tha block and stuff.

High heat + clear =

 

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Nah. The valve cover really doesn't get THAT hot. I guess if you were road racing in the summer, it might bubble the paint a little bit. It wouldn't run down the block, though.

Usually, just regular *** paint is good for between 200-300 degrees. Your VC really wont get hotter than that.

 

you really don't need the high temp, i have done valve covers with regular paint but i find that high temp is more durable and it is the same price

 

yeah i already bought high temp. paint, it might not be needed but it cant hurt. do they make high temp clear coat?

 

aircraft stripper, hot tank, and Montana paint.

there was an article in Honda Tuning a couple months ago. Theres came out amazing.

Ill see if I can dig up the article, because the paint they used was really nice stuff.

 

yeah kragen, autozone, pepboys, all of them should have high temp clear coat

 

VHT crinkle coat. Oven baked goodness.

 

dude B serious is entirely correct