Well i'm gonna be painting my LS valve cover so I decided to test first on a sohc valve cover I had lying around....I used Plasti-Kote wrinkle paint purchased from Advanced Autoparts..I think it turned out good...you can't really see the wrinkles from the pic...i'll try and take a better pic:

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Tell me what ya think!


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Update:

Here's my LS valve cover...i'm happy with the result:

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Modified by 95hbMatt at 12:25 AM 5/28/2003

 

Wow, you got skills

 

nice job man

 

looks good

 

turned out really good

 

big difference...

 

Can't really see the detail of the paint unless you get a better shot at better angle..

 

damn clean man. That's the best look for the sohc valve covers in my opinion! Good job

 

 

painted mine with black wrinkle last weekend

 

 

Looks good.

what is this black wrinkle paint youre using? I'm interested.

 

 

wow that lo0ks good...mad props for it being your first time. lo0ks like youve done it b4

 

how did you mask off the vtec and honda emblem? looks great

 

how much was the wrinkle paint???

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by allmtrSI &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">how did you mask off the vtec and honda emblem? looks great </TD></TR></TABLE>

i heard you could use some kind of jell to cover it up then after you paint it...it just wipes right off

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Powered By D15 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">how much was the wrinkle paint???

i heard you could use some kind of jell to cover it up then after you paint it...it just wipes right off</TD></TR></TABLE>
Or just sand it down once it dries. Looks good dude.

 

Sanding it makes the letters loose their shine, it's weird..

Just cover them with petroleum jelly before you spray the valvecover and it will come of super easy with a razor blade after the rest of the valvecover is dry..

Good job on that sohc..

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by MaxBoost &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Sanding it makes the letters loose their shine, it's weird..

Just cover them with petroleum jelly before you spray the valvecover and it will come of super easy with a razor blade after the rest of the valvecover is dry..

Good job on that sohc..</TD></TR></TABLE>


That's exactly what I did! I used Petroleum Jelly and applied it on with a Q-tip and after I painted it and let it dry, I scraped it off with a razor. I heard you can also use Chapstick....
But if you want the Honda emblem or the VTEC lettering painted a different color the petroleum jelly will eat the paint off....maybe the chapstick would be safe in that instance...

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Powered By D15 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">how much was the wrinkle paint???</TD></TR></TABLE>

I think it was $6 a can

 

ive looked everywhere for the wrinkle paint and found one can at advanced auto but im lookin for the red...ne one know where i can find that??

 

nice.. makes me want to paint my cx valve cover

 

i went to a carshow this weekend, some kid had pained his valvecover(yellow) with it still on the motor, and got overspray everywhere, and painted the nuts and posts blue with a brush. It was the shittiest thing ive ever seen.

 

hey that was my car you saw. jk. looks good bro. i think im going to paint mine this weekend. did you primer it.

 

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Nope, no primer....just cleaned it down real good with some simple green then went over it with some alcohol....then sprayed her down....