Colour (Mugen Valve Cover)

Post by **JaySmith** » April 20, 2005

Actually that's what I thought. But if you use just a little bit on the end of a qtip, its really easy to do.

Marble · Post by **Marble** » April 20, 2005

JDM_EK3 wrote:Actually that's what I thought. But if you use just a little bit on the end of a qtip, its really easy to do.

Correct! You don't have to cake it on there, just a little bit to prevent the paint from sticking. Doing that with a QTip vs sanding, the Vaseline trick comes out the winner.

As far as the types of paint, I have painted many valve covers, from my original GS-R, two EM1 Si's and others that I have done for friends...KRYLON rocks. Many available colors, will not chip, fade, or flake off. I speak of just regular Krylon...like not even $2 per can.

Good luck!

Marble · Post by **Marble** » April 20, 2005

And just to add to the Krylon vs heat defense, I have used Krylon on brake calipers as well...again, no fading, chipping, or flaking. Just an awesome finish...again with the choice of so many colors, you cannot go wrong. Just make the area is clean before applying your coats of paint.

Post by **kotomile** » April 20, 2005

I found the can of the wrinkle I used, it was Krylon brand wrinkle paint. Came out like OE.

Marble · Post by **Marble** » April 20, 2005

kotomile wrote:I found the can of the wrinkle I used, it was Krylon brand wrinkle paint. Came out like OE.

FOR ANOTHER KRYLON USER!

Post by **JaySmith** » April 21, 2005

First off Duplicolour makes the paint. Secondly there nozzle was worse then Krylon Fusions. haha Thing wouldn't stay on one bit. But I made due with what I had, and this is how it came out.

Post by **tenchu** » April 21, 2005

From what I can tell it looks good. Ill have to talk to you when I get to the valve cover of my 'project'

Post by **JaySmith** » April 21, 2005

yeah it turned out pretty good. if only I could have preped the areas around HONDA better, as there a tad rough. Meh the valve cover on my car right now will be powder coated later on anyways. haha

I'm thinking once its dry, sanding it down a shade with some like 3000 grit sandpaper.

Post by **BRYCE** » April 21, 2005

damn looks good

Post by **JaySmith** » April 21, 2005

Oh yeah the valve cover I'm working with was free. And when I recieved it, it was the ugliest thing you've ever seen. Rotten inside, and out. Unfortunatly I didn't snap any before pics. But this was after sanding it down for an hour with 100 grit sand paper.

Then I improved it a little more after a few hours of sanding with various sand papers.

And currently it sits like this, going to wait till later to wipe the paint off the HONDA portion.