Painted valve cover

[FD3SNSX]

I had some free time so I decided to paint my intake manifold/valve covers using VHT SP204 red wrinkle finish. (LOL my $7.99 U-Haul moving box paint booth )

Also took the Acura sticker off of center tail light

 

[swimmingpie]

How is the texture of the paint? Did you apply any heat to it or did you just allow it to air dry?

 

[FD3SNSX]

How is the texture of the paint? Did you apply any heat to it or did you just allow it to air dry?

It's a wrinkle finish and you NEED to apply heat after each coat to have a perfect OEM like wrinkle look(i sprayed 4 coats all together).

 

[swimmingpie]

Yeah. I used the same paint on mine and hit it with a heat gun. Is that what you did?

 

[FD3SNSX]

yeah - shook the can for good 10 mins before the first coat, then applied heat for 10 mins - repeat 4 times. Overall, mine came out really good. Did yours not come out okay ?

 

[swimmingpie]

It came out pretty well, although in some areas the texture was a bit inconsistent.. I put on a single thick coat and then used a heat gun at 600C. If I had it to do again, I would have done it in an oven for a couple of hours. We have an old beat up oven for powder-coating and whatnot but I didn't feel like taking the time to get it working again. That probably would have given more uniform texture.

 

[NSX-ADV5]

Clean!was it hard to remove the covers?

 

[FD3SNSX]

Clean!was it hard to remove the covers?

It's really easy. I think it took me less than an hour to remove everything.

 

[4AU4LIFE]

front cover is a piece of cake but that back cover can be tricky.

 

[seeknsx]

Is easy if you have a Comptech supercharger in the middle?

It's really easy. I think it took me less than an hour to remove everything.