Painted Valve Cover

Well guys i got bored and everyone kept telling me i need to paint it so i did. Give me your guys opinion on it!

Before:
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http://img7.exs.cx/img7/9086/IMG_3315.jpg

After:
http://img7.exs.cx/img7/4113/IMG_3424.jpg
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Damn that looks so much like my old motor. It looks decent:)

Looks nice... :)

Here is mine..

http://www.roxy.to/~mark/ebay/cover.jpg



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defintely should have taped off the Honda emblem and writing....but other then that it looks nice

max i love yours!
i orginally wanted to fo crinkle paint but couldnt find any

and about the letters, i planed on sanding them off but now im not brave enough to take sand paper or a sanding block to it :p

ur engine bay looks so clean...mine is sooo greasy!

Geek,
What you need to do is to get a box cutter razor and bend it in to a U shape then take the bottom of the U and scrape off the paint on the letters...



MAX.






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do it like max did then it will look good. it looks like ass with everything painted over.... imo

Nice and clean looking...but it just isn't my thing. If you like it though, thats all that matters.

You should paint your battery next. Clean engine bay though really, I dont know about painted valve covers though, especially red. Not my thing.

Looks good man, even with the letters and emblem painted, but if you want the letters and stuff not to be painted it wont take long just to get a razor blade and scrape them

Looks good man, even with the letters and emblem painted, but if you want the letters and stuff not to be painted it wont take long just to get a razor blade and scrape them
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LOOKING GOOD !!! man your engine bay is clean , mine sucks coz its white, good job mate hope ur pleased with it !

well guys i took the paint off the letters, tell me what you think now.



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Very nice! Looks store bought... :thumbsup:

That looks awesome now with the letters stripped of paint. Good job.

MUCH better mate , good work :) doesnt look as plain now , :)

Look's very clean! Nice job!

But....

You need to convert to MPFI!!

Looks awsome, I did the same thing to mine..But CAUTION:!!! I hope you taped off the threads on the oil cap, I did not do that when I painted mine and paint chips FELL IN THE MOTOR. I found red paint chips stuck to my oil strainer gauze! Not good if they somehow get to the engine bearings.

opps...lol... i doubt that will happen

There you go, very nice with out the letters painted.. :)





MAX




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soo with all those mods dose it move good or do you need to do the mpfi swap still?

soo with all those mods dose it move good or do you need to do the mpfi swap still?

I had headers, freeflow cat and a cat back with a CAI on my DPFI, it sounded great but did not move the way it does now it the MPFI.. :)

In fact I read that it does not really help that much (standard bolt ons) becuase of the way DPFI was designed..




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the valve cover looks pretty good for paint... that is until you spill something on it and stain it up, or it chips off over time, etc. A friend of mine painted his DOHC ZC valve cover blue, and then one day he was at the car wash and decided to use the foaming brush on his engine, well whatever they use in the soap turned his pretty valve cover brown lol.

powdercoat is the only way to go. its very durable and will resist almost any chemical that happens to come in contact with it.

Looks real nice
Good job done
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powdercoat is the only way to go.







Ditto...... Thats what I used.... :)






MAX







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It looks awsome now, A lot cleaner lookin with the paint stripped off the letters

the valve cover looks pretty good for paint... that is until you spill something on it and stain it up, or it chips off over time, etc. A friend of mine painted his DOHC ZC valve cover blue, and then one day he was at the car wash and decided to use the foaming brush on his engine, well whatever they use in the soap turned his pretty valve cover brown lol.

powdercoat is the only way to go. its very durable and will resist almost any chemical that happens to come in contact with it.

:werd: to that...If you're gonna do it, do it right.