Did my valve cover over the weekend...

lemme know what you think... oh yeah, the headers are rice chrome because while i had the PIECE OF SHIT MEGAN headers on i decided to spray my stockers "brushed aluminum" now it looks like crap. i'm doing them flat black next time i get a chance to take em off...

Before


After

 

nice, what did you do?

 

popped it off
sprayed wheel degreaser on it
hosed it down
went over it a little bit with a scuff pad
primed it one coat
around 5 coats of wrinkle black paint with only 2-3 minutes of dry time between coats
then i took the paint off the letters and sanded them a bit

 

ahmm.. was it suppose to come out like that?... (not smooth)

 

yep, it was wrinkle black paint, supposed to look like the OEM B series covers, or the F22As on the accords.

 

por ejemplo, off an H22

 

oh ok cool... i was feeling the flat black....

 

its jay dee em yooo... duh!!

 

bro that looks pimp as fuck. Mad props. I would like to do the same with my valve cover except in red

 

lol my bad... the jdm gods will have a field day with me now..great...LOL

 

Thats a tight texture you achieved... nice

 

looks tight. now i wanna do something like that.

 

thanks mang, i thought about red at first, but was worried it would be too "loud" in my bay, but was still considering it. when i went to kragen to get the wrinkle red paint, however, they were out and only had black. i just gotta sand the letters down in the same direction tho, up close they look whack

 

very well done,looks hot

 

Nice job man

 

Very well done !! brings back memories of the ol h22a - man i miss that thing sometimes.

 

so they would have this kind of paint at any major auto parts store correct?

 

most likely.. a home depot or something like it would carry it as well

 

looks tight. its on my list of things to do too.

 

do they have this wrinkle paint in different colours?

 

He said red and black, that's different colors right?

 

well just those 2?

cuz i wanna try a colour matched valve cover with my new paint

 

that would be tuff dude, idk. the black would still def go with your COLOR scheme

 

COLOR..

but i dont want black..and my car aint stayin anthracite, im goin with another COLOUR

 

whoa whats the deal, y not. its a hot color.

 

oh dont get me wrong, i love the colour but the painter did suck a piss poor job on it and i want it mint and with all the work i have to do to make it mint i might as well go a different route...and im in school for autobody so im doin it myself for soo cheap

 

nice work! like how the letter are flush with the paint now.

 

do you have to replace the gasket or seals? looks premium man

 

Looks good. I like it.

 

those sometime just depend on ur car. if you dont know when the last time it was change...then you might as well get one...they run about $15-20

 

yeah...........the wrinkels are too big, you need to apply alot of heat to it for them to shrink while its drying

 

i think he was talking about the paint on his car in that quote, not my cover

but yeah, i'm content with how it turned out, it was just for personal satisfaction, how often are people gonna PEEP THE GOODS of my stock CL?

anyways, i'll probably end up redoing it, i didnt use VHT, i used krylon, which is not heat oil or damage resistant

my friend did it with me on his miata, and his wrinkles came out VERY minimal. but we both like the way mine came out better

 

ya i was talkin about my car

 

how long did it take to dry??

 

looks good, any pics of it back on the engine after paint? I'm curious to how the engine bay looks now, i'm sure it looks

 

yea more pictures please

 

for sure, i'll snap some after i paint those headers flat black, it looks pretty good in there. flows better than the flashy silver that came stock.

it took quite a while to dry, i'd recommend letting it sit in the sun for 3-4 hours. i only had like 2 hours of sunlight left when i started, so the rest was done with a heat lamp/blowdryer

 

i love that man...looks good

 

 

that looks awesome, nice job. just like the oem hondas