Im not spending 160 for a jdm valve cover, so my friend's dad owns a car dealership and he owes a favor. Hes rotating my tires, changing my oil, and helping me paint the valve cover.

Anyway, what are the steps to doing this?

Buy paint obviously, remove old paint, clean cover, primer, and then paint it right?

any other tips would kick ***

btw, I have a 94 gsr if that makes a difference

 

Try to get high temp paint, and bake it in your oven on 200F
I tried too..then my mom came home, lol


[Modified by ragejed, 1:06 PM 12/22/2002]

 

dude, hit me up on AIM

Sknot1454

 

I painted my D series valve cover. just used regular high temp paint .

I would just say that preparation is the key!! The more carefully you do it and the more your prepare it, the better it will turn out. Dont' rush.

 

what would be the best way to get rid of the stock black(yuk) paint, and what did you(ragejed) use to sand down/paint the vtec/honda motor co. letters?

 

I went right over the stock black paint. I just sanded it down a bit, and made sure it was DAMN clean. Its been a few months now, and it still looks like the day I painted it.

 

did you sand off all the paint or just clean it and spray over the black paint?

 

I painted my valve cover to look like the Type-R red valve cover (see picture below). The texture and color are nearly identical to the real thing. You can go to my website at http://www.geocities.com/bretq/Valve...tructions.html for complete step-by-step instructions for painting a valve cover.



Larger image (cut and paste link): http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...8.jpg.orig.jpg

 

mines looks like that
i went over the stock krinkle paint as well
but i got the dohc vtec part

 

that looks great. what did you use to cover up the letters and did you spray down in the spark plug holes?

 

Here's my ghetto job:

 

is that a SEX sticker or badge?

When painting an already painted surface, you have to get an M3 scrub pad (red) and scrub the paint (it roughens up the surface for the new paint to adhere better). Then just peaint with high temp paint and bake it.

 

Youre inspiring me to paint mine. Its chipping like its going out of style.

 

I painted mine last night. Ford blue. It turned out like **** so I'll be re-doing it tonight again..

 

Anything that wasent painted before..i taped up, and i painted over the letters, then sanded the paint off.

 

Instead of painting over the lettering and sanding, all you need to do to save time is cover it with vaseline. The paint wont stick to it and you can just wipe it off. It worked perfectly when painting my old B18c cover.

 

do you guys sand it down to bare metal? i want to do that to me lude.

 

One of the funniest thing I read on the Integra forum! ha ha!

 

Funny but true. You can bake it in the oven! It is safe, however my mom didnt think it was, and she wasent too happy for the smell

 

ya the paints that withstand over 500F need to be baked.

you use aircraft paint remover and the oem wrinkle paint melts right off.

FYI, the oem wrinkle paint insulates a lot of heat, so if youre gonna be painting with non-wrinkle paint, know that your cover is gonna get very hot, thus heating up your engine bay more. its about as hot as your intake manifold gets.. im seriously thinking of either redoing another one with wrinkle paint or just going back to stock =/

 

Yep, I agree.

 

i painted mine,
i bought high temp paint, and basicly misted the paint onto the cover, it took a long ******* time, like 40 light coats but ive never seen a better cover than mine (that was painted) i then popped it in the oven on 200 for about an hour, made the place smell like nasty pooon





[Modified by slowpokesi, 4:41 PM 12/23/2002]

 

Gunmetal - stripped and misted.



-Todd

 

Hey SlowpokeSi....that valve cover looks great thats the best valve cover paint job I have seen, looks 99% stock!

 

Are you guys putting a clear coat on them?