How do i paint my BOV?

[Race94]

I have an HKS bypass valve, very similar to the 1g BOV and wanted to paint it like the 1g valves are painted sometimes.

How do i do this?
What materials etc.

Thanks

 

[Defiant]

Wash all the grease and oil off of it with brakleen or starting fluid, and hit it with any good-quality spray paint. I think Dupli-Color has even come out with some that look like anodizing, if you want that. So long as they have a clean surface to land on, modern paints hold up remarkably well.

 

[DSMhelex]

shouldn't you use the high temp engine paint?

Originally posted by Defiant
Wash all the grease and oil off of it with brakleen or starting fluid, and hit it with any good-quality spray paint. I think Dupli-Color has even come out with some that look like anodizing, if you want that. So long as they have a clean surface to land on, modern paints hold up remarkably well.

 

[Race94]

could i clean it with degreaser?

 

[MaNGiNa24]

Degreaser woudl work, just make sure you don't get any in the inlet. I just cleaned my 1g bov, primed and painted. It's good to use a high temp paint too.

 

[dsmturboawd]

Originally posted by Race94
How do i do this?
What materials etc.

Thanks

im taking this thread as a joke.

how: push the nozzel and spray the hk$ cbv.
materials: can of spray paint

 

[Race94]

yeah this is hilarious...

Thanks

 

[Defiant]

Originally posted by DSMhelex
shouldn't you use the high temp engine paint?

Won't hurt a thing, but not really necessary. The BOV won't be seeing much in the way of high temps, compared to something like the block.

 

[Defiant]

Originally posted by dsmturboawd


im taking this thread as a joke.

how: push the nozzel and spray the hk$ cbv.
materials: can of spray paint

Ah, but you see, this is exactly where the casual automotive enhancement engineer can be quickly tripped up. There's much more to it: some types of spray paint have that perplexing cap which actually requires a screwdriver (screw end, not nail end) to disengage it from the primary aerosol containment tank- and it only takes you one time to learn that the shortcut of bashing it on the curb instead isn't good, as you watch amidst the shower of styrene shrapnel, the nozzle skip gleefully down the gutter, straight into the storm drain.
Then there's the crucial part, the application of the pigmented spray itself, and the aiming of the nozzle. For many, the first cold blast into the right-side ear is enough, but some have actually sealed over their eardrum with repeated coatings of aerosol paint. This explains how hip-hop music gets listened to.

 

[dsmturboawd]

Originally posted by Defiant
Ah, but you see, this is exactly where the casual automotive enhancement engineer can be quickly tripped up. There's much more to it: some types of spray paint have that perplexing cap which actually requires a screwdriver (screw end, not nail end) to disengage it from the primary aerosol containment tank- and it only takes you one time to learn that the shortcut of bashing it on the curb instead isn't good, as you watch amidst the shower of styrene shrapnel, the nozzle skip gleefully down the gutter, straight into the storm drain.
Then there's the crucial part, the application of the pigmented spray itself, and the aiming of the nozzle. For many, the first cold blast into the right-side ear is enough, but some have actually sealed over their eardrum with repeated coatings of aerosol paint. This explains how hip-hop music gets listened to.

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