How to: Paint Valve Cover & Header (Optional) - Page 3

XxToKeSxX · 09-13-2006, 09:39 PM

I think I'm going to get it powdercoated... maybe...

Dammit. stop tempting me to paint it!

Nismo_34 · 09-13-2006, 10:06 PM

Ok fine!

JK

XxToKeSxX · 01-21-2007, 03:44 PM

McgJosh · 01-23-2007, 10:33 PM

Holy crap those wheels came out nice.

SERdriver · 01-27-2007, 02:16 PM

Whats the point of cleaning out the bottom of the vc? Did you paint the bottom too?

XxToKeSxX · 01-27-2007, 07:04 PM

^^^What kind of question is that? Are you for real or are you being sarcastic.

SERdriver · 01-27-2007, 10:51 PM

haha nvm i just realized the stupidity of that question.

XxToKeSxX · 01-29-2007, 01:19 AM

^ You knuckle head!

Just Playin'

circa.13 · 02-07-2007, 07:41 PM

whats the color of this VC? Looks brown.

TommyD241 · 10-18-2007, 04:06 PM

Give up the color of the wheels man. Is that a bronze duplicolor wheel paint? It looks hot.

XxToKeSxX · 10-18-2007, 04:16 PM

Duplicolor bronze with their wheel coating...

TommyD241 · 10-18-2007, 04:21 PM

Thanks. Thats what I figured so I went their website and saw that color. How many cans of bronze did it take to do all 4 wheels?

XxToKeSxX · 10-18-2007, 04:36 PM

two cans should do the job... I usually use around 2-3 coats and then 2-3 coats of clear. No clear on satin texture wheels

TommyD241 · 10-18-2007, 04:42 PM

Cool. Thanks for the info.

JKho · 10-18-2007, 06:03 PM

anyone know what the colour of the 99SE-L rims is? I love that colour on those rims.

davew7 · 10-18-2007, 06:11 PM

Thanks for the write-up...
From this...

To this...

Hammered finish, sorta like wrinkle finish, kinda hard to see but you can see it great in person.

Tape off the letters for the bare finish...

This is my first time doing this but it was fun, I used an entire can of clear...

TommyD241 · 10-18-2007, 06:19 PM

Looks good. How do you polish the letters with out scratching your freshly painted valve cover? tape around the letters to protect the paint or tape over the letter before you paint?

davew7 · 10-18-2007, 06:47 PM

I had some elves tape off all the letters.

No, I used a razor knife and tape on the letters while I watched a football game.
Took maybe an hr doing that, then about 3 days of painting on & off, then I carefully removed the tape and wrapped some sand paper around my idex finger and ran it on the letters just to brighten them up. After the letters were bare I sprayed 2 more coats of clear.

XxToKeSxX · 10-18-2007, 09:02 PM

WOW! that looks amazing!

davew7 · 10-18-2007, 09:05 PM

Thanks Mang.
Obviously it wouldnt go on my P11 but I'm up in the air on if I'll put it on the P10 or the B13. Yeah, I'm finally picking the B13 up on Sunday.