i stripped my valve cover with aircraft remover. the orig. paint was crap, then it got spraypainted and that was falling off and getting burned, so now i think it looks kinda cool.



it looks even better with my black spark plug cover

 

Sorta matches the headers, intake manifold, and the block. I like

 

its going to start 2 turn colors soon, give it a few coats of clear coat, it will at least "prevent" it a little bit

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by xerox445 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">its going to start 2 turn colors soon, give it a few coats of clear coat, it will at least "prevent" it a little bit</TD></TR></TABLE> thats going to take some time my boy did the same thing been drivein daily for almost 4mos now and never even changing yet... but yes clear will help "high temp"

 

my friend did the same to his and it didnt turn colors. no clear leave it raw. go to your closest acura dealer and order some of the itr acorn nuts and washers for the valve cover. they are so bad ***. they are chrome and never get dirty.

 

get some steal woll and go over the letters and honda, so it's blinging, that **** would be hot

 

polish that beast

 

There is a DIY valve cover post if you are looking for other ideas.

 

word

 

i like it... nice and clean

 

looks goods man, futuristic

 

Where did you get the aircraft remover from?

 

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I would also like to know....

 

autozone!

i heard its actually called aircraft remover for removing heavy duty paint and undercoating (on airplanes?)

 

u no what even sicker when u sand it down and then airlane strip it and cut the end off so u can see the cams... and its all smooth and everything i did that with one of my b18b valve covers..

 

clean man

 

hooray

 

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Walmart Stocks it, where the Automotive paint is

 

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Walmart Stocks it, where the Automotive paint is</TD></TR></TABLE> gota love walmart....i just did mine...the crap in the can isnt as strong as the jug of the "roll on" type but it worked fine and you do not have to sand it or nething just take it off, then spray away

 

I thought I'd ask this question while we were on the subject of valve covers.

I heard that you can sand them down starting with like a rough grit (say 240, and then slowly work your way up to like a 1500 to 2000) then a finer grit sand paper and eventually you polish them and they come out all street glossin bling bling like.

I was just wondering if you can use any honda valve cover just because I have an extra one off of just a D15. I'd just do this for fun on the side and sell if for a couple of bucks on ebay or something. But like I was asking, is this possible with any honda valve cover?

 

looks good, i wanna do mine

any tips...?

 

Ya not bad, I am a sucker for black and red OEM valve covers though

 

looks good man.
I had mine sand-blasted (my bro did it), worked good.
nice work.

 

nice

 

As long as you keep the valvecover clean IE no fingerprints you should'nt have a problem with it discoloring however you will notice that your underhood temps have gone up a bit and this will become a problem for your cooling system and electrical ect.

Not a major one but to be considered.

I had mine powder coated silver due to this reason