I painted my valve cover on Monday.
It turned out good.
Took it for a drive to make sure valve cover gasket was cool.
The clutch cable rubbed right through the new paint.
It looked like **** again.
I stipped all the paint.
I'm thinking the paint kinda acted like a heat shield.
Is repainting necessary?
I'm worried about overheating the spark plug wires.

 

no it is not necessary to have the paint/coating on the valve cover . you should be just fine .

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 88 SiR &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I painted my valve cover on Monday.
It turned out good.
Took it for a drive to make sure valve cover gasket was cool.
The clutch cable rubbed right through the new paint.
It looked like **** again.
I stipped all the paint.
I'm thinking the paint kinda acted like a heat shield.
Is repainting necessary?
I'm worried about overheating the spark plug wires.
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A little vague dude, what paint? what's your concern?

 

what do you mean?

Just repaint it and dont scratch it this time?

 

I used black wrinkle paint w/ hi-temp primer.
After driving it the valve cover felt way hotter than normal.
My concern is melting some spark plug wires.
It's 100+ out here. It looks good without paint.
I just want to know if it's safe to rock it like dat.
I don't want no problems.

 

you wont have any problems