polished/polishing valve cover (big pics)

[milton666]

hey i just got done messin around and was polishing my valve cover. just kinda excited about the way it looks and wanted to know if anyone knows a good way to clean the valve cover? maybe something to make it shine a little more and just for shits and grins i threw in some pics i took while installing my turbo.


how it used to look



here is the valve cover now



here's my ride waiting for me to quite taking pictures and finishing putting her new turbo in



and heres the new evoIII 16g next to the t-25



and one more of the evoIII, because its just a bad bitch

[clipsekid99]

Looks real nice! How did you do it. Mine right now looks like crap lol.

[milton666]

thanks. I just took a drill with 3'' wire brush in it and went at it, used a dremmell with a smaller wire brush to get in the tighter spots, still need to go back and go over it once more. I started doing the heat sheild too but im gonna have to remove it to get it real good but it was polishing just the same as the valve cover.

[clipsekid99]

Cool, I'll have to try that. Thanks! How do you like your new evo3?

[milton666]

likes not the word...more like love .

[gthompson97]

you should be able to polish the letters with some sort of mag/aluminum polish. it'll take quite a bit of rubbing but eventually they'll become a mirror shine. same thing with the heat shield.

[kjewer1]

The valve cover on my motor was polished by my brother in his spare time at work. It takes a loong time to get a real good finish on it. The wire wheel is a good start. You're next step would be a cotton or similar wheel in some type of rotary tool, with various levels of abrasive cutting and polishing compounds.

In this pic its very dirty since when the motor blew the front water pipe popped out and spewed bullshit all over the car, and I never clean it anyway. The spark plug area was not done. But just over the CAS you can get an idea of the level of shine on the rest of it. Looks very similar to the BJ's Intake Manifold. In the sun it looks pretty cool.

[Urban_Squrill]

Looking nice. Kevin got a big enough filter on that thing?

[kjewer1]

An air filter can never be big enough

[milton666]

thanks for the tips 95 gsxracer, ive got some cotton tips on that dremmel so when i get some more free time ill see if i cant make it shine a little more... and yea...jesus christ, that filter looks bigger than my head.

[Nayr747]

I polished my 1g bov with a cotton wheel on a dremel and some stainless steel polishing compound from Home Depot. It turned out nice but on a couple places, like the edges, it looks darker like it polished down to some other metal or something. Haven't been able to figure it out.

[gthompson97]

if you have a da (dual-action) sander you can put some 600 on there and sand it down and clean it up and then use the cotton dremel wheel to polish it.

[kjewer1]

Originally Posted by Nayr747

I polished my 1g bov with a cotton wheel on a dremel and some stainless steel polishing compound from Home Depot. It turned out nice but on a couple places, like the edges, it looks darker like it polished down to some other metal or something. Haven't been able to figure it out.

Mine has a similar effect, very wel polished on the edges. I think it cuts faster on the curved edge, thats all. So ultimately the whole cover could look like that, but on a flat surface it takes longer to cut it down (force spread over more surface area).

[scottsee]

looks like i found my new weekend rice mod. nice job!

[EclipseRST]

Sounds like you need some 550cc injectors to go with that Evo 16g! If you or ANYONE is looking for some, I have them forsale.

Nice job on the Valve Cover. When I did mine I polished the whole thing on a 12" grinder with a wire wheel and it was shiny as hell. But I still wanted to paint it and I like it that way better anyways.