 painted my valve cover, with "anodized look" paint |
 Aug 16, 2004 - 11:56 AM
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hey all, workin on painting my valve cover with this "anodized look" paint...did some sanding and dremeling to get the casting flash off and stuff...looks decent so far, think i may do another couple coats...what do ya think?
  heres a pic of the paint i used...  
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Aug 16, 2004 - 4:08 PM
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yea the groundcoat is what NEEDS to go on first cause its like primer the paint might come off without it......and you might wanna check and make sure that the heat range doesn't exceed what metalcast can go up to cause i know the vavle cover can exceed at least 150F
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presure2 painted my valve cover Aug 16, 2004 - 11:56 AM
sphinx looks good. But yeah, you do need more coats. Aug 16, 2004 - 12:11 PM spunky393 And how much HP is this going to get ya? Aug 16, 2004 - 1:06 PM presure2 QUOTE And how much HP is this going to get ya?... Aug 16, 2004 - 1:10 PM DamDirtyApes dammit pressure, where and when will u stop, ur ca... Aug 16, 2004 - 1:39 PM pxcr440 did you the ground coat first cause that well help... Aug 16, 2004 - 3:01 PM presure2 nope no base coat cuz it was bare metal....heres a... Aug 16, 2004 - 4:22 PM lagos you raped my poor super clean engine!!... Aug 16, 2004 - 4:35 PM 97Celica Nice job.. I painted mine blue as well,but,with hi... Aug 16, 2004 - 4:44 PM Batman722 nice Manny. Where did you get that idea ? Aug 16, 2004 - 5:01 PM presure2 hahaha lagos sorry man, had to do it..ill have to ... Aug 16, 2004 - 6:34 PM shid QUOTE (presure2 @ Aug 16, 2004 - 11:34 PM) hahaha ... Aug 16, 2004 - 6:43 PM pxcr440 it will hold the heat i used the green with the ba... Aug 16, 2004 - 7:54 PM
presure2 yea just read the can its heat resistant to 500 de... Aug 16, 2004 - 8:22 PM |
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