Here is my valve cover thread! I painted it yesterday and put it back on today, here are some pics of the process!

















Watcha think??

 

you sprayed thick and heavy coats thats why it came out with huge wrinkles

 

at Discount/Advance Auto Parts they sell this Bedliner Spray (long spray can). it comes out textured...

the wrinkles look real thick... but not so bad.

 

Looks good...i'll get around to doing that one day.

 

Those are thick! but it looks much better, i want to sand mine down and do it red but dont feel like it.

*its clean under there !

 

how did you masked out the letterings?

 

where did u manage to find the VHT crinkle paint in ontario? that **** is rare!

 

that looks tight

 

just did my bros today, still havent seen the result

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by opiumdaze &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">you sprayed thick and heavy coats thats why it came out with huge wrinkles</TD></TR></TABLE>

The heavy wrinkle is actually what I wanted. I think it looks good!

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by DC2point0 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">how did you masked out the letterings?</TD></TR></TABLE>

I didn't. I scraped the paint off in the morning with a butter knife, then used some sandpaper, 180 grit to take the paint off, then used 220 grit to smooth the surface out. After I used the polishing bit from the dremel set, but I didn't like that so I went over the letters again with the 220 grit.

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by CIVIC dude &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">where did u manage to find the VHT crinkle paint in ontario? that **** is rare!</TD></TR></TABLE>

There's a stereo shop in downtown Kitchener here that sells it. It was $14, they have it in red and yellow too.

 

wow nice job, looks 100% better

 

nice...
get a heat shield

 

The wrinkles are a little too big IMO, but it still looks good

 

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get a heat shield</TD></TR></TABLE>

Have a heat shield, took it off to save time. I'm test fitting the turbo on Tuesday, I want to get it done as quick as possible.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Hatch It &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">*its clean under there ! </TD></TR></TABLE>

Thanks! I cleaned it all this weekend. There are still a couple of rusty bolts that I have to take care of, but it looks way better than before.

PS don't ever buy foamy engine cleaner unless you get two cans.

 

looks better

 

looks a whole lot better

 

great!

 

cleaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!!!

 

not bad

 

Thanks

Here's a game, see if anyone can tell how many things got painted from the first pic to the last. That should be fun.

 

looks like you painted the cruise control...

 

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Correct... it was rusty. Besides the valve cover, there are three more things that aren't so easy to spot.

 

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haha same here

 

came out pretty good