Polishing valve cover

[emil13si]

Damn that thing takes for ever,
I'm rubbing that shitty valve cover for almost three days now and I still didn't rub all the color off and then when I'll do that with hard sand paper I must do it with three other papers so I'll get fine and shiny surface and then finally polish it so it'll be shineing like chrome

So plan is to polish valve cover and intake manifold so it'll look very nice on my new engine

Beside that I'm still waiting for my performance pistons to arrive then we'll build my engine and the shitiest part of all is that I'm trying to get B16A tranny but I just can't get any not in Slovenia, Austria, Italy, Germay there just aren't any trannys for that motor so I guess I'll have to redo my nice Hasport mount kit for that tranny that I already got B16A2

Any ideas what should I do???
Help apriciated

And here is a photo of my work!

CYA

[ci5ic]

I had the same problem... I was trying to do that to my D16y8 valve cover, and finally, I just gave up and took it in to have it powder coated with chrome. It only cost me $50, so not too bad at all, and it looks way better than I could've ever pollished it.

So, try and clean it up real good, and if you've left any deep scratch marks, try to buff those out and have it powder coated... They told me that as long as you can't feel the sanding marks with your finger-tips, it should come out smooth because the powder coating is pretty thick and it fills in some of the imperfections.

Good luck!

[toontowncivic]

looks good so far! keep us posted!

[ci5ic]

Plus, there's just no good way to do any sanding between the lettering and stuff...

Here's a picture of how mine turned out:


and another one from a different angle:

[emil13si]

Looks very nice,
I know a guy that could sand me that valve cover but I know that even after sending that cover won't shine like chrome that is why I'm doing it by my self, I did that to my custom CAI pipe to so I know the prosedure...

It's gona be long project I'll photo my finger tips on the end too

[Marc-OS]

Dude, you should have told us a few days ago. I could have saved you a lot of work. Go out and buy a can of "Aircraft Stripper", that stuff takes all the paint off with almost no work. I've tried polishing my valve cover before, and yeah, it's a bitch and a half to sand down around the lettering, and the results usually aren't that good. My suggestion is to just strip all the paint off, and repaint it in a different color.

[emil13si]

No way that I'm gona paint my valve cover that is so used trick, as you can see that cover was painted in ITR red paint and on previus engine I also had that red paint on, but after I did that almost half of a people that I know did that too that is why I'm doing the polishing no matter what

No one has that in here for now

CYA

[crxlvr]

well keep us updated on the work man, looking pretty good so far.

[emil13si]

So if I'm reviewing my project here is one of them too
It's the toyota WRC hood scoop in bolted to my hood also pretty hard to do making whole through that shitty hood and then try to get that scoop in center and above the headers so I won't have to worry about engine getting to hot, the air from the water cooler will go out through that scoop very fast at least that is my plan

Here it is :





CYA

P.S.: the fenders are also in project phase I'll shave the corner lights and the place where that side plastic comes and wide them some more

[emil13si]

Originally posted by Marc-OS
Dude, you should have told us a few days ago. I could have saved you a lot of work. Go out and buy a can of "Aircraft Stripper", that stuff takes all the paint off with almost no work.

Thank you very much for that advice I did buy one of those things paint removers and now valve cover is totaly color free and I'm already sending it with different types of papers so I think that till the end of this week that cover must shine crazy

CYA

[91civicDXdude]

just for your information, i know a guy that does a great job powdercoating and polishing. Drop him a line, talk to Tom @ trgperformance.com. Tell him "BHG" sent you. he'll hook you up. he does great work.

[emil13si]

THNX for that link but I'm from Europe,Slovenia so I would have to send my valve cover to that guy in USA and then ship it back so prolly that would cost more than the job he would do on that cover, so thnx anyway but I'll try to do it on my own

CYA

[Setanta]

Well the GT4 bonnet scoop should look really different emil You're going air-water for the intercooler? Top mounted or front mounted? I ask because most top mounted simply act as heat soaks and arent as efficient as front mounted. Most guys over here use custom built front mounts which take up most of the front bumper

[<[4gen91CvcLX]>]

damn that hood scoop looks huge on the hood! but looks good though something different....

[emil13si]

The hood scoop goes in to prevent hot air circling in the engine bay and to improve cooling system cause the whole from hood scoop is above the header so in that case hot air from radiator goes directly out threw hood scoop so that improves your cooling system a lot cause in case you don't have hood scoop that hot air circles in the engine bay and the radiator is not so efective like it could be a little advice from mechanic that repairs rally cars in here!!!

It's gona take a lot of time before I'll go for the FI but that is next step but I think I'll use B20 VTEC for that plan but like I said it's a long way till then....

First I'd like to see how my car will handle 200-220HP NA


Still waiting for my performance pistons NA (almost a month now)

CYA

I'm pretty close with my valve cover too all I need now is sand it with two different types of sand paper I already did it with three diff. types of them and then when I 'll do that the next step and finnal will be polishing it....I hope it'll be finished till the end of this week