DIY: strip your valve cover and repaint (56K probably not)

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Shea

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I decided to repaint my valve cover because it began to crack and pieces were falling off and i have a lotta spare time in college, lol, so here goes...
*** I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES, THIS IS SIMPLY A SUGGESTIVE WRITE UP***
Supplies/Tools:
-Paint thinner
-Aircraft grade paint stripper
-Paint (Krylon 3380 RED WRINKLE)
-Painters tape
-Sandpaper

Me (Shea) and Brett (bcivichb) both did our valve covers at the same time

the chemicals and the paint: got the paint at autozone



Before:



1. Apply the aircraft stripper in generous amounts, we did 2 1/2 to 3 coats with some cheap paint brushes from k-mart. It starts working about 1-2 minutes after you apply it, you can use a plastic scraper to remove the stripped paint. Then after you get what you can with the stripper take it to a hose and rinse off the remaining flakes (we used our kitchen sink 'cuz we don't have a hose :lol: )



2. After you rinse them, dry them off to the best of your ability and get ready to sand the corroded spots and the badges (Honda, VTEC and symbol). We used 350 grit to start with then finished it off with 600 before paint. Make sure you sand all the corroded spots because the paint will not stick if you don't


3. Now take your valve cover back to the sink/hose and get some soap this time and clean it real good then get the paint thinner and a rag out and go over it a couple times to get everything off the surface. After this step try not to touch the paint surface

4. Now tape up all the areas you don't want paint to get in to:


5. Now comes the painting, the Krylon we used said do 3 coats in 5 minute intervals. Make sure you remove the tape while the paint is wet, if you take it off when its dry you can take the paint up with it

then with the tape removed:


6. Let them sit at least 12 hours to dry then set the oven to 200 degrees and throw it in there for 20 minutes


7. Next you can sand the badges if you want, get the painters tape back out and the sandpaper and repeat what you did in step 2 (350 -> 600)


After sanding the paint off the badges, your good to go, just clean the dust off and take some pics and post them in here!


Some random extra pics:



edit: this might be in the wrong section, sorry

heres some links to buy the paint if you can't find it anywhere local (note its not krylon but i couldn't find krylon but the part number is 3380 RED WRINKLE)

http://vht.carshopinc.com/product_in...id/56288/SP204

http://www.usautomotive.co.uk/store/...?idProduct=347

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/VHT-P...spagenameZWD1V
 

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Looks good. Nice write up. :thumbs up. Im swapping my head here soon, so Im gonna repaint my valve cover too. Im gonna use this as a reference. =)
 


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Nice DIY... I like the outcome...might have to do it myself :thumbs up
 


King Bob

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very nice finished product. I would do something like this if my valve cover was actually visible
 

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defvayne said:
damn those look sweet!!!!
thanks dude


King Bob said:
very nice finished product. I would do something like this if my valve cover was actually visible
thanks, you can't see the vc on 8th gen's?
 

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Shea said:
thanks dude




thanks, you can't the vc on 8th gen's?
go check the member ride 8th gen section for under hood pix of my car, the vc is way back there and ther is a plastic cover up front.
 

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can the paint withstand the temps? great write up btw.

the one closer the the camera looks alot rougher than the other. any reason?
 

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looks like it came out great. I know what my next project is going to be.
 

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wow those looks really good man :thumbs up
 

Shea

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thanks again for all the comments


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can the paint withstand the temps? great write up btw.

the one closer the the camera looks alot rougher than the other. any reason?
my buddy painted an LS cover with the same paint and he's been driving with for a while now and its been holding up to the heat, about the one looking rougher then the other, mine didn't come out as wrinkled as the other one and i don't really know why, i think he may have used more paint
 

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are there any fumes when u baked it?

and was this vc off of your car? or one that u switched once it was painted?
 

Shea

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there were some fumes but they went away after baking them, thats the vc off my car

BrakeLights said:
going to do this to my ls valve cover this weekend, thanks man!
no problem man, post some pics when you get done!
 

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damn, that s**t looks tight for a DIY- i thik i might do mine this weekend too!
--nice write up to man!
 
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