I know many people have done this but I would like to recommend Dupli-Color High Heat Orange with Ceramic paint. Its amazing and looks like powdercoating, drys very quickly and its very durable. its a bit expensive at about $7-8. There are no drips and this is just 2 coats with about 10 minutes between coats.

I plan on painting my intake manifold in a few months with the same.

Heres a pic. I masked off the v6 3000 Twin Cam 24 V so it stays the factory black with silver lettering, but the rest is the burnt-orange. Supposedly it will last up to 1200 degrees but honestly any paint would probably be fine for a plastic engine cover, so its way overkill.

 

looks nice thanks for the recomend

 

I'm painting mine - with Krylon Fusion Antique White - I won't be taping off that whole section however as the original color on it is ruined, so I'll paint the whole thing white and then come back with the red for the letters.

 

looks good, mines been off my car since last july and i still havent finished this project, cant wait for some nice summer days to paint

 

to the OP Beautiful, make sure to get us some shots on the car.

 

Everytime I go to paint it starts raining... bah, I'll get it done eventually... (mine has sitting on my speaker in the living room for over two weeks).

 

I've thought of painting mine the same color as the car but have the NISSAN in silver but I want to detail my engine bay before "modding" it

 

I did the same thing to mine but I painted the Nissan letters in Black.

 

I was going to do the same color to mine, but i haven't had any time to paint it. looks really nice with that red.

 

yeah I detailed mine back in august with some engine brite foaming degreaser and a hose, made it really shiny. After a salty winter, its actually really nasty in there again and the engine cover stands out as the only good looking thing in there. I dont know how 2 coats of the stuff will stand up to degreaser, ill probably have to remove it when i spray in a few months to reshine it all.

 

nice job

 

I'm not sure with the paints you choose, so yeah you should pull it off before de-greasing - With the Krylon Fusion - it soaks into the plastic/vinyl/etc so it shouldn't be a problem once mines painted.

 

nice job looks good heres a pic of mine, the spot is from touching up

 

very clean show some pics of it in the bay

 

Looks awesome dude.

 

so i guess ill chirp in too, seeing how the previous owner sold my ae cover
broke my cover one day out of frustration. few weeks later before i threw it away, i said eff it and tested something out before i threw i junked it.
results:

bondo plastic filler:


lots of sanding, high temp primer


end result:


crack ended up showing through..but i get crazy compliments on it, so it stays on until i pic up an ae cover.
+ i put a red LED strip under the cover hooked up to switch...ppl like that for some reason lol

 

ok that last pic looked gross...heres a more recent pic:




i want to do my timing chain cover black someday

 

I used some of the high-temp Duplicolor and its held up rather well, considering I did it 2 years ago.

I actually kinda just halfassed this one, used masking tape over the lettering...and no I didn't care to tape the "Twin Cam 24 Valve" because that would have taken forever, lol.

And sorry for the crappy quality....IIRC, it was taken on my BB.

 

some great looking covers and bays in here. keep posting more guys.

 

Very clean. cool

 

these all look good when i get home ima put some pics up

 

Mine will be Antique White (where yours is Black) and Red or Blue (where yours is White) - I'll do the smaller letters by hand - since I can just spray out some paint and grab with a small brush to do them.

 

My orange cover



Think I should do the intake manifold and the timing chain cover?

 

i like that orange a lot on the car, after finally having mine primered for months i got it paintedwhite last weekend, and for the lettering i was thinking red and then the strip black. what do you think?

 

Mine

 

it would smell chit after sometime because of the heat........

 

Ive had mine for ~3 years. Never smelled anything

 

Here a super old pic of mine.


And a dirty pic.

 

I also used that brand and it has held up for quite some time now. I'll edit this post later with a pic.

 

polish the TC cover. I like the look of the UIM painted flat black

 

 

howd you guys get the letters so good?? jus tape and exacto knife??

 

that and time and patience

or you can do like me and go back and slowly and carefully use a paint brush to do each letter

 

Paint markers work wonders too....

My kids camera is a fail - so I'll have to try to get pictures when I have the Central Florida Maxima Meet (Logan's Roadhouse on Sandlake in S. Orlando on April 18th - and every 3rd Sunday thereafter)

 

to the top bump
i just finished painting mine again because i didnt like how it turned out the first. enjoys

 

 

looks amazings guys..

 

Before



After dedication and long hours spent painting both valve covers, intake manifold and cleaning my engine bay:



I will have a more current pic tomorrow the plastic cover is grided gunmetal now.