Aluminium Valve Cover

[HondaBoy]

ok, i had bought this a long time ago and never did anything with it except take the paint off it. so i thought i would get it powder coated, but the guy i took it to didnt think he was experienced enough to tape off the raised parts and do the rest. anyway, i've decided to polish it out. here's what i've done so far. it now needs to be polished out just a bit more but is almost done.
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[Sporno]

noice... not alot of 3geez have the polished valve cover .. people love mine when i go to the dealership to get some work done

[gfrg88]

blah!! i dont like polished valve covers, looks to plain, imo. needs some more polishing and itll be perfect :thumbup:

[HondaBoy]

yeah, i need to do a bit more to it, but really not that much. it went a lot faster than the wheels i had been working on, which i still havent gotten around to finish. but yeah, i think i'm going to be putting this on by at least monday. only thing is that i'll have to keep up on it, but that shouldnt be a problem once its polished out. then i'm going to want to keep it nice. something i found that made taking the paint off really easy was soaking the paint with brake fluid. then it just comes right off. my brakes instructor had told me that.

[ghettogeddy]

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i love my polished valve cover

[3rdgenhatchDX]

It's true you can't ever polish it enough. Keep up the good work!

[Sporno]

ive awalys wanted someone to take a carbed 3g and only use american parts on it and try to make it look muscley ( i know its not ) i think it be kinda cool , hood school , red and white.. ya i should shut up

[Xtreemjedi]

Hey looks good! How did you polish it? I was planning to do the same to mine, just havn't gotten around to it.

[MessyHonda]

did that cover come from the prelude? i saw one at the junkyard....and i was like oh no wonder....well i want to polish my rims....too bad its going to take me like 3-4 hours each rim....by the 2nd one il give up and have 2 polished and 2 ugly rims...lol

[HondaBoy]

i used a hand held size rotory polisher to start, then went to a larger polishing wheel that attaches to a drill. i plan to go buy a bench polisher, looks like a bench grinder. the wheels i was working on had so many problems, oxidation took its toll so its been hard to get them looking good. here's a link to my wheels. just skim through and check out the pix on both pages.
http://www.3geez.com/forum/showthread.php?t=43563&highlight=wheels

[MessyHonda]

i used a hand held size rotory polisher to start, then went to a larger polishing wheel that attaches to a drill. i plan to go buy a bench polisher, looks like a bench grinder. the wheels i was working on had so many problems, oxidation took its toll so its been hard to get them looking good. here's a link to my wheels. just skim through and check out the pix on both pages.
http://www.3geez.com/forum/showthread.php?t=43563&highlight=wheels

cool...il do a write up also....my uncle has like a 2inch DA so i can sand it my rims down with no prob....i dont want to do all the work since my rims have lots of crub rash and then i sand it down i wont have a lip at all.

[2ndGenGuy]

Damn man that looks freakin nice! Is it hard to keep clean when it's polished? I know my red valve cover gets dirty very easily... I'd almost rather get a polished valve cover just to get a little hot rod respect, instead of the typical ricer red and the looks people give you when you're getting teched at the autocross track...

[HondaBoy]

here it is ready to put on.....but the parts stores are closed. and the one autozone that stays open to midnight just so happened to not have the valve cover gasket in stock while every other one in town does. aint that a bitch! but yeah, tomorrow for sure. this plus my header will look nice. now i just need an air cleaner that'll look clean.
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['A20A3']

Dayyyum. Looks perfect.

I've always wanted one of those style valve covers...

[labeledsk8r]

damn that looks hella good, reflection offthe side is crazy, wish i had the patience to do that, looks awsome, and i think that prelude head looks really good polished, those bolt right up corect?

[AccordB20A]

that looks nice as. reminds me of my mates civics EW5 cover that hes altered and shined up.

i cant keep anything shiny cause i keep getting it covered in oil...me mister dirty hands

[HondaBoy]

yeah, it was off like an '86 prelude i think. it was the one with the suicide opening hood. anyway, got the gasket and put it right on when i woke up, which was like an hour and a half ago. so yeah, here it is. looks good but i definately need something to dress up the air cleaner. just havent seen any rectangular ones that look good. the ones i find i like are online usually. this vavle cover has been something i've been wanting to put on for a few years so now i'm pretty happy with it.
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[carotman]

I need a valve cover like this. The LX-i cover isn't bad but the carb cover sucks so much.

[HondaBoy]

i think i paid like $8 for this valve cover if i remember correctly. if you find them, you ought to pick up more than one. fix them up and sell them. too bad i dont know anyone locally that has a 2nd or 3rd gen prelude or accord, nobody to swap parts with. althought i know plenty of people here that like cool stuff. here's an idea. the black steel valve cover that came off my car is in great condition. i was thinking of sand blasting it and selling on here. with or without the studs for the air cleaner wouldnt be a problem. possibly powder coated, but i dunno if anyone would really want a plain jane valve cover like that fixed up?

[speedpenguin]

That looks really nice, man!

[race12001]

:rockon: dude thats so awsome i wished i had patiance like that but i aint so i used spray paint to make mine look new