Painting Valve Cover

Shift518 Automotive
1

Alright, I’ve never painted anything in my engine bay. Any advice/cautions/recommendations? I’m going to sand my valve-cover down(unless someone has a sandblaster they can help me with this saturday… hint), but I don’t know what is best for priming and painting.

I’m just going to do it black like the exterior, and then sand the lettering down to metal by hand. So as I said, any recommendations and advice for materials, brands, or methods would be really appreciated.

2

I have a blaster. And the oven to bake the high temp paint on.

VHT flame high temp paints are what I used. the Wrinkle coating comes out very nice, then. the others are good too.

PM me if you want to bring it over.

3

Ive done this more than a few times. Here is what I do

  1. Use aircraft remover to take the v/c to bare metal.
  2. Sand lightly or clean with steel wool/abrasive material (that won’t gouge)
  3. Paint with VHT or Duplicolor wrinkle
  4. Let dry, allow 24hours for cure (some people flash heat, but I let it dry on its own)

edit :

  1. Disregard steps 1-4
  2. Send v/c to KrazyKidKustomz
4

Be baller. Polish it.

5

LOL thx for the shout out.

Air craft remover we would use to strip 90% of it, then shoot it fast with glass bead to remove the rest, clean the surface and rough it up for a good mechanical bond for the paint.

6

Thread can be closed. Much appreciated, KrazyKid,

7

you welcome pleasure doin bidness with yeah.