gsumax and I are gona paint his valve cover tomoorow. I wanted to just get info so we can be 100% sure.

PLANS ARE:


-Take valve cover off, clean it and let it dry
-Put 1 base coat of hi-temp paint, let dry
-Put 2nd coat on, let dry
-Put 1 coat clear/gloss, let dry
-Put dat shiat back on.


Any other comment/suggestions?

 

Before you put it back on the car, it would be best if you bake it in the oven to make sure that it fully cured.

 

or put it back on and drive around, it should heat up quite a bit on your car....

 

Make sure it's high temp clearcoat too, and I'd put more layers of paint and clear on if you can...

 

what color are you guys going to paint it?

 

Black


How many coats then?

 

2-3 coats should be sufficient to make the cover black.

 

- thanks

 

Are you talking about the plastic cover that covers the ignition coils? If so, I painted mine with 00SEinMA a few weeks ago. We did it black but we taped off the red strip and the nissan letters. It came out pretty good but we did many coats of paint. This is the procedure we used: clean, lightly sanded it, a couple coats of high temp primer, like 3 or 4 coats of black paint, then 3 or 4 coats of hi temp clear. Good luck! Ill post some pics when I get a chance.



-Steve

 

Heres a pic:

 

no, the VALVE COVERS --- not the coil cover

 

sorry......

 

i thought were painting both??

 

Yea well I THOUGHT we were painting TODAY...no YESTERDAY!!


Peddy - if you like the same one in the picture...we'll do that too. But the VALVE COVER was what I needed more info on.

 

I am getting mine powdercoated translucent blue for $88.00.

 

-- that's TOO much. We'll spend like $15 for paint and DIY!!!

Show pics when it's done!

 

was it high temp spray paint?

I've found my dads new spray gun to be very handy

 

yeah but once it looks like this i'll be happy.

 

Damn that does look hot. Too bad it's an SR20??

Thats what gsumax's is gonna look like except black.

 

OH HI Mr. IignoreBijan

 

www.smpolishing.com That's the pic off there site but that's what it going to look like.

 

That looks sweet. Wish I could do that to my 4th gen. Maybe I can! I wanna get my intake manifold polished+like 1/4 of my vavle color. You guys think it would lok cool if they cut the front off the valve cover exposing the cams?

 

I used a high temp primer as well. Prime, sand, prime, paint, clear coat. I used 4 coats of paint and 2 coats of clear.

Came out ok. Doesn't look powdercoated, or professional, but better than it was:

 

If painting doesn't work out.... I have a polished VQ30DE and a polished VQ30DE-K for sale. PM me.

Here are the pics.

 

This one is translucent powdercoated. It's $$$ since it has to be polished first then powdercoated.

 

Eric - what grit sand paper is best?? And is it totally necessary to sand?

 

I don't remember what I used...I had several ones...generally start with a lower number and work to a higher one through several coats of primer.

However, for something like a valve cover, its not necessary.

 

Wooord.......Tony may get a sale though

 

How much for the VQ30DE?

 

$135 shipped + your old valve cover.

 

Clearcoat only needs to be between 3-5 layers maximum. After that, it will actually lose some of the glossiness (is that a word?)...

 

Ouch no thanks. lol

 

Justin, so --

-Take valve cover off, clean it and let it dry
-Put 1 base coat of hi-temp paint, let dry
-Put 2nd coat on, let dry
-Put 3rd coat on, let dry
-Put *3* coat clear/gloss, let dry

-Put dat shiat back on.



That sound right/good?

 

Had mine painted on my 3rd gen for a while, but it never lasted. Had it sandblasted and powder coated for around $75 total and it's looked great ever since. Dirt wipes right off of it. Do it right once and be done with it. The results are much better than painting. Been there, done that 2 or 3 times, got aggrevated, spent the money and THEN did it right.

 

hmm, what place would sandblast it?

 

Call when the paint starts chipping off

Powder coating is very long lasting

 

Powdercoating shop will have a sandblasting machine. That's how they prep before the powdercoating process. One thing about powdercoating VQ valve cover is that the spark plug seals will melt so you would have to replace those.

 

I PAINTED MINE BLACK WITH THIS GRAPHITE SORT OF SANDPAPER
MATERIAL .. SOMEBODY DID IT FOR ME BUT IT LOOKS REAL NICE
I THINK THEY PUT TWO OR THREE COATS.

 

You painted yours but THEY put 3 coats on???

 

Sounds good to me. Use a good degreaser...