Painting Valve Covers

Red97 · Post by **Red97** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:18 pm

I just want to know if anyone has painted their valve cover? What did you use, and how did it come out? Any ideas would be great!!

ubengineering · Post by **ubengineering** » Fri Oct 26, 2007 10:45 pm

had it beaded (better than sandblasting) down by my motor shop for 20 bux, painted it with duplicolor high heat/primer, and sanded down the 2.0 to really make it stand out, ill put pics up wen im not lazy lol

rlneon · Post by **rlneon** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 5:49 pm

I sand blasted it and painted it with high heat engine paint (Ford Red) and then Painted the SOHC 2.0 with high heat white. Most auto parts stores have the high heat paint in jsut about any color you could want. I will get some picture in a couple days.

uta_flyinghigh · Post by **uta_flyinghigh** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 5:38 am

I have red Foliatec brake-caliper paint leftover from another project. Would that work ?

UTA

rlneon · Post by **rlneon** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 8:46 am

uta_flyinghigh wrote:I have red Foliatec brake-caliper paint leftover from another project. Would that work ?

UTA

It should work as long as it is high heat paint.

98moparR/T · Post by **98moparR/T** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 3:16 pm

check out my r/ts garage, and tell me what you think of my valve cover it only cost me like 10 bucks in total

vielecustoms · Post by **vielecustoms** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 3:31 pm

I used a wire wheel on my grinder and took everything off and than went over it with some fine sandpaper. cleaned everything off with thinners. 4 coats of primer and 3 coats of color sanded the letters down, and a coat of clear. all duplicolor hi temp.

sorry about the mess I am getting ready to take her apart.

BlueR/T · Post by **BlueR/T** » Fri Dec 21, 2007 7:16 pm

i used high temp primer and paint, then wire brushed the lettering, it's a little oily in this pic but you get the idea

afireinside4848 · Post by **afireinside4848** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 5:14 pm

vielecustoms wrote:I used a wire wheel on my grinder and took everything off and than went over it with some fine sandpaper. cleaned everything off with thinners. 4 coats of primer and 3 coats of color sanded the letters down, and a coat of clear. all duplicolor hi temp.

sorry about the mess I am getting ready to take her apart.

mine turned out close to this(shade tiny nit darker) with a can of cheap primer and spray paint. it just chisp real easy.

vielecustoms · Post by **vielecustoms** » Fri Dec 28, 2007 8:55 am

afireinside4848 wrote:
vielecustoms wrote:I used a wire wheel on my grinder and took everything off and than went over it with some fine sandpaper. cleaned everything off with thinners. 4 coats of primer and 3 coats of color sanded the letters down, and a coat of clear. all duplicolor hi temp.

sorry about the mess I am getting ready to take her apart.
mine turned out close to this(shade tiny nit darker) with a can of cheap primer and spray paint. it just chisp real easy.

it does chip very easy... I had the bright Idea to do the harmonic balencer... after beating it a little to get it on, it looked like crap.

afireinside4848 · Post by **afireinside4848** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 12:53 am

vielecustoms wrote:
afireinside4848 wrote:
vielecustoms wrote:I used a wire wheel on my grinder and took everything off and than went over it with some fine sandpaper. cleaned everything off with thinners. 4 coats of primer and 3 coats of color sanded the letters down, and a coat of clear. all duplicolor hi temp.

sorry about the mess I am getting ready to take her apart.
mine turned out close to this(shade tiny nit darker) with a can of cheap primer and spray paint. it just chisp real easy.
it does chip very easy... I had the bright Idea to do the harmonic balencer... after beating it a little to get it on, it looked like crap.

lol ya half my parts i paint get scraped up by the time they are on.I had my transmission painted nice red but the time it was on it looked like i threw it down a rocky hill.

98moparR/T · Post by **98moparR/T** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 11:31 am

you painted your tranny? hell I dont even wanna take the time to look at mine besides paint it

vielecustoms · Post by **vielecustoms** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 1:22 pm

try doing the whole engine and tranny out of a semi truck. after a week or two scrapeing and washing all the god knows what off you can finally see the part and start sanding.

after putting two years into this I am going to kick my father in the nuts if he don't finish it soon.

rlneon · Post by **rlneon** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 7:54 pm

painted letters white

uta_flyinghigh · Post by **uta_flyinghigh** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 3:28 am

Very very stupid question. How do you take off the valve cover and what's underneath ?

UTA