Painting your valve cover

[kicker1_solo]

I did this yesterday, it looks great. If you all want a way to spice up your engine bay, paint your valve cover. I already have an intake and wire covers, but once I painted this it made it look a 100 times better. $5 for a can of engine paint, and about an hour of cleaning the oil and crap off of the valve cover and painting and it's done. 2 minutes to take off, 2 minutes to put back on. Then I spent about 5-10 minutes wet sanding some paint off, where it has the honda emblem and says honda somethin' somethin' and the lines that go across it.

pics will come soon

oh yeah, and everyone that has seen it so far thinks it's so fuckin' tight. they even offered to pay me to do theirs....

[chriskatana]

http://www.mustangmods.com/data/1021/ttiwwop.gif

oops i missed that part about the pics,
I want to do the same thins and paint the intake to match.
I just have to come up with a color!

[kicker1_solo]

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid73/pd93c955ae5e0e7004e24d3b0a66b9adb/fb78d46c.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid73/p3848698e3225e2629c307e751a4298ca/fb78d4e3.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid73/pa0fd95f7065781c71bc714bbb90187ba/fb78d4ee.jpg

[charlesb2003]

looks nice bro.. that's what i'm gonna do to mine when i have the time.

[MrBen]

I thought you had to replace the gasket when taking off the valve cover.

[NXRacer]

Originally posted by kicker1_solo
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid73/p3848698e3225e2629c307e751a4298ca/fb78d4e3.jpg

The hubble space telescope takes damn good pictures from space!! :lol

[kicker1_solo]

Originally posted by GhettoAccord
I thought you had to replace the gasket when taking off the valve cover. you don't have to. Mine was just replaced a few months ago and is still in great shape so it was fine to leave on. If yours isn't in very good shape, then it's a pretty good idea to change it.

[MIK3]

Damn. That is looking real nice. The car looks in excellent condition as well. Keep up the good work bro.

[stizle]

hey is that little filter thing goin into your valve cover, is that what the call a breather??

[MIK3]

Yeah. That would be an air breather. Just picked up one today. Doesn't do anything for performance. It's there for looks, and better ventilation to the inside of your valve cover.

[stizle]

yah thats what i figured u was talkin bout in your other post. thanks

[MIK3]

No problemo.

[Swan]

real nice, I'm considering painting mine blue, and getting a lot of other blue/silver stuff throughout the car... and more specifically on the blue color, the engine paint I got is "ford blue" from plasti-kote, I think.... i'm wanting to get a lot of stuff in that color... and the silver is really the "chrome".... it sucks, because I thought it would actually produce a chrome color, but its more like a silver... but I like the silver for painting the interior...hit me up if ya care to hear about why I wanted real chrome (no its not the wheels......)

[kicker1_solo]

Originally posted by Swan
the engine paint I got is "ford blue" from plasti-kote right on, mine's ford red :)

[MIK3]

I'd have to go "ford white" haha. My car's white, and it would only look appropriate.

[Jims 86LXI HB]

Originally posted by MIK3_DX_STYLE
I'd have to go "ford white" haha. My car's white, and it would only look appropriate.

Take if from me, doing a valve cover in white is a major pain. I did LXI-Girls white valve cover. I was doing if for a fee. I got so frustrated with it, I ended up shipping it done as best I could,.....for free. I hope you have better luck than I did.:wave:

[danronian]

Originally posted by stizle
hey is that little filter thing goin into your valve cover, is that what the call a breather??
They may look good but if you need emissions on your car you could possibly fail for tampering with original equiptment since in about 1970 they mandated emissions systems cannot be vented. But if you don't need emissions, who cares.

[MIK3]

Yeah. But it couldn't be more easy to take the breather off and reconnect the hose and clamps. Keep that on for a day, and then you get home, and reconnect your breather. Just like flipping your air lid box. Easily put on as it is to take off.


And for Jims 86LXI HB

Yeah, I heard it was hard. I'm just saying if I ever was to paint it, which, unless I do bigger better engine enhancements, it's not going to be done due to the degree of difficulty, heh.

[TJ89Accord]

I just painted my valve cover and my carb cover with "ford blue". Its a little lighter that I wanted it, but I don't really care lol. I was changing my valve cover gasket cause mine was leaking, and I was changing my air filter, cause I had the lid flipped (now back to normal). I didn't sand anything off, so the whole thing is blue now :). Ill take pics of mine whenever I can get a digi cam (stupid sister moved out and took hers...)

tim

Oh yah, it looks good ;).

[mjimenez]

Nice work, the red is my favorite color....

Here's how my valves cover looks...

http://www.ticomerciantes.com/Honda/Accord86.jpg

[Cyric_accord]

Hey, just finished re-painting mine.... Painted in Low Gloss Black and then a silver/chrome on the lines and Honda writing....

Try to get pics up on monday

[Cyric_accord]

Ok, I'm not very good at posting pics or Yahoo! doesn't like me doing the pics thing so I just threw them onto a site... here ya go.

www.geocities.com/cyric_mage

[sanjay]

kicker - pink? - nice painting though

the other guy who posted his pic - everything else is nicely touched up, but no headers?

[bburtonsk8r]

that valve cover looks great man. i have already painted mine white but didnt know what sandpaper to use to sand the lines and the honda symbol. somebody help me out

[A20A1]

block sander with 800 grit I guess.
Might clog the paper though

[A20A1]

Originally posted by sanjay
kicker - pink? - nice painting though

the other guy who posted his pic - everything else is nicely touched up, but no headers?

what do you mean Pink?
Is a pic missing?

I wouldn't mind seeing it though.
:)

[bburtonsk8r]

i dont have a block sander, is there a kind of sandpaper i can go to the hardware store and buy that i can use to sand my valve cover down?

[kicker1_solo]

Originally posted by A20A1
what do you mean Pink?
Is a pic missing?

I wouldn't mind seeing it though.
:) lol, no, it's red...

[Magny]

I painted mine anodized blue, looks killer, but sucks that I have no pics to post it. I used a wire brush with my die grinder air tool and removed all the paint in like 2 mins. I put 5 coats on it so it can get a deep blue to it but enough to reflect the metal under it. You can see where I started with a drum sand paper on it.

I'll post pics as soon as I take them and develop them considering my digicam isnt workin still.