Thanks to some tips from hardcorehonda i painted my valve cover with a nice result IMO, lemme know what u guys think of my handy work...

 

nice! give us all a rundown now
for you

 

Me likes! Any instructions on how to do it?

 

oh **** thats like the krinkle paint that comes on the itr valve covers.. cool ? waht kinda paint did you exactly used ??

 

well this is what I did

1. clean valve cover
2. cover raised lettering with vasoline
3. buy Engine Enamel high heat Universal gray, universal red, and clear
4. heavy coat it with gray (wait til dry, u can used a hairdryer to speed this up but just be careful u dont start to melt the vasoline)
5. from about a meter away mist on some red (alow to dry)
6. mist some gray from about a meter away
repeat steps 5 and 6 until it get lookin like the type R red, the texture should be there at this point, by misting it creates the texture.
7. a few lightly misted coats from about a meter away, this helps add to the texture and protects,
8. I used a razor and scraped off the paint on the letter, (comes off easy due to the vasoline. )

I want to take the time to thank hardcorehonda cuz it was originally his idea and directions that i used. any questions welcome, thanks for the compliments.

 

wanna do mine?

--justin

 

damn sounds alot like my directions

 

Tiiite looking valve cover. Good job.

 

i just read yours, ummm i guess they are alike, although mine was more along the lines of how to get the texured effect. but either way, they are both about valve covers and painting them

 

damn i figured this out a while ago holding it far away and **** its just ford gray now

 

Dude, that cam out Sooooo nice

Miguel

 

i got a question..are u guys starting with the already silver covers..or the black coated ones?

 

Wow! Good job! Congrats!

 

What color (exact) of red and gray did you use? Which brand?

 

Man I dont know whether to do this or powdercoat...

 

mine was OEM silver, no paint on it,

the paint is plasti-kote universal gray #202
plasti-kote universal red #209
plasti-kote clear coat

thanks for the + feedback

 

Looks really nice.

 

 

looks good.....

 

 

Great Job

 

i gotta give you

 

awesome!!!

 

great job
im loving it

 

That looks really good. Now some one try it with blue instead of red.