Jims 86LXI HB
01-09-2003, 08:52 AM
Hello, I just wanted to pass on a personel experience I had recently with painting a valve cover with high temp paint. I had stripped off the factory black with ease and then repainted it a nice red. Then months latter I chipped the finish while taking off my header to sell. I tried to fix the chip, but chould not get it looking good enough for my taste, so I sprayed paint stripper on it,.......bad idea.
Do NOT get your self in a position where you need to strip off the high temp paint, it DOES NOT come off very well AT ALL! I just spent several hours spot sanding the outer color coat and the under coat off. Had I know I would have throw the dang thing away, way to much work :rant: Adding to my misery their was allot of place's that were really tuff to get to with sand paper. Next time I'll spend $18 to get another cover from the junk yard, cause the factory paint melt's right off with the striper, but not high temp paint.:confused:
Do NOT get your self in a position where you need to strip off the high temp paint, it DOES NOT come off very well AT ALL! I just spent several hours spot sanding the outer color coat and the under coat off. Had I know I would have throw the dang thing away, way to much work :rant: Adding to my misery their was allot of place's that were really tuff to get to with sand paper. Next time I'll spend $18 to get another cover from the junk yard, cause the factory paint melt's right off with the striper, but not high temp paint.:confused: