CL 2.3 rida

anyone have any pics of their engine's painted? what did u paint and what type of paint did u use?

jumpmanbsktbll

...search brotha

Cocoa

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Nothing but primer and high temp paint from Home Depot. I painted my valve covers and intake plenium.

spencer_homer

yo rida, u gotta start searchin for all this stuff, you can find answers without starting a thread

AznX TL

i dont think anyone with a 2.x painted theirs or did someone?

Cocoa

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Yea, there was one guy. I forgot his name, but he posted pics of it.

<syphers>

i painted my valve cover i'll get some pics up soon

spencer_homer

im gettin mine powdercoated

AznX TL

do you have to take off the whole head to get it powder coated?

spencer_homer

no just the valve cover

TCM 01 CL-S

My friend and I have done it several times before including on his integra's valve cover and his brothers civic's valve cover.
We thoroughly sanded down both covers with 400 grit sand paper (i think). Then we hit it up with two coats of high heat primer 1200 degree from Advance autoparts and then followed it with the high temperature engine paint/enamel also from Advance (3 coats)

Friends Integra, Ford Blue we also put a light coat of high temp clear on there:






His brothers civic's cover (no clear coat used):



can't remember what color we used.

97BlackAckCL

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You need to search bro, all the stuff you're starting threads for have been discussed a million times.

Here's mine, I used plastikote 1200 deg ceramic gloss black paint, primer, and clear coat, all 1200 deg paint.













Still gotta sand and paint the letters and put the new chrome A on, but you get the idea

Jrezo

Yo thats a Real bullet hole huh? Not a sticker, Damb thats hood

97BlackAckCL

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that's a real bullet hole alright gives the car lots of personality

Cocoa

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It's how we do out in SoCal. Yea, some bastard shot at me on the freeway for no reason.

Peachery360

I dont believe it!! hahahaha

TMO

here's my engine painted in red just like the type R's.
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aznboi2424

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is that a bypass valve actuator in the first pic?

TMO

where is actually the bypass valve actuator? in the before pic?

aznboi2424

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in the first pic in the post

Dicorp

just out of curiosity, is it possible to leave the plastic off? i hate the ever increasing amount of plastic on newer cars...

klepto

i got mine powerdercoated red. done by trg coating, real cool guy.

97BlackAckCL

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You can get away with driving without the trim, I'd use at least the front piece that holds the spark plug wires, and the channel that holds the spark plug wires, I wouldn't want those just hanging, but I drove without them for a couple days and it was fine



Piece on far right, and bottom that I would keep on, but you could probably get away without the bottom piece, at least leave the 3 wire railing, it can detach from everything else, it bolts right back on, or stays without messing with it

shnee

started mine out last Fall with the mentioned Ford Blue.. got too cold to really get anything done on it, so it looks terrible as it stands.
Now that the weather is getting warmer, I'll be finishing the job soon enough followed by pics.

97BlackAckCL

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WELLLLLLLLLLLLLL get to it