Benjithx

Any tips or tricks on prepping a valve cover for paint. Any useful tools to sand it? and lets see some pics of your painted valve cover. I think i am going to try one of those sand paper flap spinning things...lol. right you guys know what i'm talking about

chad

clean it really good

menkio

yea, just sand it to bare metal, wrinkle paint, powder coat, whatever. trg performance, i think his name is ben... really good guy... def would get it powder coated instead.

TypRice

i used aircraft paint removal to clean mine....all it does is strip the oil, gim, and other stuff of...i got it from pep boys....

Soccerking3000

if you dont want paint on the lettering, put vasoline on it and when its all dry take a razor blade and scrape the paint off the the lettering.

menkio

yea that stuff works wicked good

_Cyclone_

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I used this stuff when prepping my teg valve cover. All I can say is it works GREAT!!! Use that stuff to get all old paint and everything else off of it. Be sure to follow the directions on the can.

Soccerking3000

and be careful, that stuff will mess alot of stuff up, dont get it on rubber and use it away from any other painted stuff, the mist can cause it to bubble.

Benjithx

Great info guys

chris_c

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waste if time for prep and clean up. paint the whole cover and than use some 320 or 400 on a sanding block to remove the paint from the letters. that is how i did mine.

Running925

personally i would powder coat it.. but then again i own a powder coating shop.. soo yea. Here's a before & after pic for ya.

you can contact me at Running925@hotmail.com if u want more info about powder coating.

Civicman86

thats pretty clean. Im guessing it is powder coated? I painted my valve cover black but i think i want something a little differnent.

Running925

yes.. it's powder coated, like i stated in the post. I run a powder coating shop out of my garage with a walk-in oven.

sxecustoms

how much would you charge to powder coat a d series valve cover?

99hatch

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yes i would like to know also

cxSHOE

if you did a search and type in "wrinkle paint" in the archive there is tons of stuff that cant help you do it correctly.

and go here especially: and remember NO PRIMER IS NEEDED FOR WRINKLE PAINT!

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1109927

Running925

i normally charge about 40-50 bucks depending on the color & how much prep work is required to the valve cover. If you interested, you can see some of my work from the honda-acura.net members. my e-mail address is running925@hotmail.com

Tony

Running925

i started posting a couple pix onilne. Here's a link for those that were interested

http://65.25.21.237/Performance_Coatings/index.asp

Soccerking3000

you spelled brake "break" lol but it looks like good work

crispydee

here mine, took ages but looks alot better in the flesh than the picture. My camera is crap.

Oh and Ben you have PM

_Cyclone_

That's different... nice work, looks good!

ErMaK

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I've seen that before on teamrice.org on that civic hatch....its sweet looking dude

either that aircraft stuff, or you could sand-blast it off.

Turbo E

Crispydee...



just awesome.

brings me back to my breakdancing days.

TurboTagTeam

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That looks awesome