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#1
03-18-2003, 07:54 PM
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Polishing Valve Cover
Anyone have a good how-to on this? Also when I do it, would I need to replace the valve cover gasket? One more thing, there is oil in my plug cylinder, I guess I need a new garmets, where can I get those?
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03-18-2003, 08:09 PM
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Team Sol has a good how-to www.teamdelsol.com
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03-18-2003, 10:15 PM
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if ur getting oil in ur plug holes then just buy the gasket kit which contains the cover, grommets & plug gaskets all in one.
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03-19-2003, 12:48 PM
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Thanks dfarres. Any idea how much the kit costs and where I can get one?
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03-19-2003, 12:57 PM
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any automotive store like napa or shucks
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03-19-2003, 01:00 PM
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It's a FelPro #VS50326R-1 for a D15B engine (DX).
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#7
03-19-2003, 03:38 PM
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Well its for a ZC so it should be the kit for an 89 integra right?
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03-19-2003, 03:42 PM
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what are garmets is that the peice of rubber gasket that came out of my spark plug hole last weekend when i took the plug out cause my car burns oil bad. Is there a gasket down in the spark plug chamber?
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#9
03-19-2003, 03:51 PM
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Polishing the valve cover is more work than you think to get it to come out nice. I was going to polish mine than i decided to just get a wrinkle finish paint. The paint looks awesome, it wrinkled like stock and a dark black color.
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03-19-2003, 03:56 PM
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Any pics? cuz it really does look like its gonna be a pain in the ass.
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03-19-2003, 04:29 PM
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03-21-2003, 09:44 PM
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I've spent about 8 hours trying to pollish the valve cover for my d16y8, and I'm slowly getting there...
I started by using a dremel tool and grinding out all of the imperfections... There were several ridges and whatnot that I made smooth just for a more perfect look LOL. At this point, I'm just working my way down to finer and finer grit sand-paper, then I'll wet-sand a bit, and then I will pollish it. It's pretty tedious.
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03-21-2003, 09:49 PM
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damn, 8 hours? I know its gonna be a lot of work but I thought maybe I could get it pretty much done in a couple days (a couple hours each day). But its not really sounding like thats gonna happen. Oh well, im up for it cuz I know it will end up looking so good. Oh yea, but does anyone have any how-to's? Im sure ill find some if I just do a search on google but I didnt know if anyone had a certain one they liked.
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03-21-2003, 09:52 PM
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theres no how-to that I used but i just kept working down to a finer grit, i did this over 3... maybe 4 days, like 2 - 3 hours a day, then said forget it and just painted it how it was lol
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03-21-2003, 09:56 PM
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It was so hard that you gave up? Did you try doing it with it still on the engine or something?
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