ok well i starte to play around with my stock valve cover last night and wanted to do something different with it. so i decided to first strip the paint off of it. well that was easy.

then i decided to clean it all up and make it look nice and clean on the inside as well. so i did. then after that i decided to shave off all the lettering on the whole thing. well that was the hard part. but it still only took me like 45mins. so well this is what i got so far.

now what i was wondering is what would you guys do with the rest of it. im takeing it over to a buddies house tonight and going to sand blast the whole thing nice and smoth. so that way all the imperfections are out of it. but im not sure of were to go from there. i was thinking maybe some mugen gold would look good on it. but then agian. not sure. let me here your guys idea and i will go from there. take in mind i have a 91 hatch that is a dark grey sort of a pewter color!

 

Forgive the horrible header thats on there. $$ was running low and the engine was shipped w/ no header.



Did this right after I got the engine in. Bay was cleaned up later, but dont have pics of it.

-Jake

 

i really like that. that looks cool. what did you do to make the edges so clean?

 

what color is your car? that would help alittle.
btw, i dont see many polished valvecovers anymore

 

the car is a a dark grey color!

and its not polished its just the paint is stripped off of it! it looks like it but its not.

 

bump!

 

G.I. JOE!!!!

 

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I went to my local Milwaukee Paint store and had them custom some high temp flat cammo colors. Just brought them cans of cammo paint of the shelf and they matched it. I think Kryon has a whole cammo line.

Then I took a manila divider (the kind you find in file folders) and cut out a squiggly line right down the center. I then laid the two separate pieces on the valve cover in different orientations to achieve different cammo patterns. Sprayed in 4 dif. colors and called it a day.

I used to have pictures up of the whole process but that was almost a year and a half ago...the thread was called "what IS Jake up to" there might be some more help in there.

-Jake

 

The mugen gold would be nice... how about all the BAR honda colors?

Superhatch, ur upper rad hose doesnt look right... is it just me?

 

yah bar honda colors would look good too. never thought of that thanks! keep on given me ideas!

 

bump

 

yeah, superhatch's upper hose looks like its on the verge of kinking, but his valve cover is HOT

 

yah i was thinking the same thing!

 

ok well i think im going to take it to get powder coated tomorrow. any more ideas?

 

man that looks amazing how did you shave it down?

 

Leave it shaved like that. You'll like it more then it being painted.

 

The shaved cover looks nice how did you shave it???

 

i want to get a black mugen or tenzo r valve cover?

And want to put tenzo r or mugen sticker on front and back kinda like how wayne made his advan front and back...Go head talk **** but when it is done u see!

 

Just a few colors I have done, pics have been shrinked down so the quality went down a little to.









http://www.imagestation.com/al...age=Y

 

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Did this right after I got the engine in. Bay was cleaned up later, but dont have pics of it.

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Are U from Texas

 

here is mine i did looks really really shiny cause the paint was still wet. i sold it on ebay for 65 bucks haha

 

I love that blue i want that!
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shaving it is my little secret! hehe

what kind of paint did you use on the valve covers above?

i have decided that i am going to powder coat it in a high gloss black! going to get done tomorrow in the garage!

 

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Share it with him man, secrets are gay.

When I did mine I think I used paint thinner or something.. no paint left at all.

 

GOOD THING YOU SOLD THAT RED ONE ON EBAY MAN RUNS BAD