I just painted my valve cover and it is a UGLY blue. How can i get the paint of? Should i sand it off or what? What temp engine paint should i get?

 

The plastic piece or the aluminum piece?

 

The plastic piece

 

only thing you can do is paint over it.

 

Use paint thinner (or acentone) and a TON of elbow grease. If you want you can try sanding but it will be too hard to get into some of those cracks. As for the paint, go to a local auto parts shop and they will have "high temp engine enamel". That will be fine.
-Cyrus

 

Is there such thing as a hi temp clearcoat? For instance, I wanted to paint my valve cover body color which is a metallic green. I have the spray can for it, which I will be using on my door handles but Im wondering about it's reliability under the heat. Is there such thing as a hi-temp sealant of some sort that will protect the paint if I dont use a hi temp basecoat?

Thanks

 

Sand it. I wouldn't put thinner on plastics. I've seen some bad things happen to plastic because of using thinners.

 

I have also heard the same but I took a chance and used it on my valve cover and it worked perfectly. Very clean, where I know sanding could not be.
-Cyrus

 

Cool. I should have thought about the fact that that plastic cover needs to be able to deal with the underhood elements like oil spills and a lot of heat.