Paint or powercoat valve cover?

[97turbodsm]

Has anyone ainted their valve cover or just get it powdercoated?? If you did paint it what paint and steps did you use to paint it?? Thinking about a red valve cover and was just considering the options.

 

[Dsmed]

I painted one of mine red once. I used 1500-2500 degree paint on it. I sand blasted it clean first then painted it. Then sanded down the surface of the lettering. It looked good and held up nicely until I over tightened it once and had to get a new one. Then the new one I sand blasted and polished.

 

[97turbodsm]

What if I can't get my hands on a sandblaster?? Are there any other tings I could use instead?? What if I just sanded the hell out of it one day??

 

[greathuskie]

sanding it will work fine, thats what i did

 

[popeonarope]

yea actually i was talking to somebody and they said they sanded the hell out of theirs and it took them like 6 hours to do that and paint it.

 

[97turbodsm]

Well, I guess I have a lot of work ahead of me. I don't need to put primer or anything on the valve cover before I paint??

 

[wastefuldreamer]

i wanna get the lettering off of mine. How do i got about doing that?

 

[97turbodsm]

Don't jack my thread.

 

[black93TSi]

when i painted my valve cover, i just cleaned all the grease off of it, went over it for about two minutes with a wire brush, and put prolly a half dozen light coats of VHT "flame-proof" paint on it. six months later, no scratches or chips. heres a pic (its pretty dirty but itl give u an idea..)

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i just used a little grinding bit on the dremel to polish the paint off the letters

 

[dave99gst]

Originally posted by wastefuldreamer
i wanna get the lettering off of mine. How do i got about doing that?

i got one that im doing now -you can use anything, belt sander, carbite cutter, die grinder, mill - or dremel if thats all you have

 

[Airpoppoff]

I Painted mine with 500 deg high temp engine paint,

cleeaned the hell out of it,
painted over everything
sanded the letters so they would shine, then
polished the letters,
works great, just dont tighten the valve covor too muchw hen you put it back on