TekPhobia

No one else to show it to...

I couldn't resist...

I already painted my valve covers black, but wanted to paint the letters red. Hand painting 'em would look ghey, so I had to improvise...





Using a carbon steel fan brush + dremel:







I was gonna go for the polished look...but that'd be too blingy for me..




Thought I'd take a peek at my rod bearings...




This one is disappointing...that dark green..yea...gas diluted oil:



There's a couple hairs on the bearings that makes 'em looked gouged...not so.

W3rd

-Tim

TechX

Those covers look slick as. Any more pics of the 4AGZE?

AgentMurdoc

nice, man nice. Ther black looks super slick

Where are the finished red letters pics?

TekPhobia

Still a work in progress. I gotta get some play do from Wal-Mart, cover the red letters and spray a layer of black. The entire valve covers were sprayed black, but I decided to spray the letters red. If I were to pull the tape/paper now, you'd see a black valve cover, a metallic section with red letters; a disaster.

Finished pics coming soon....

-Tim

SkunT

dam, is that the motor you got about 3 months ago and everyoe was like about?


whats it going in again?

TekPhobia

Yea, it's the same motor I posted pics of before. It used to look like this:



It's goin in my '90 Corolla Sedan.

And yes, after I ditch the S/C and slap on a turbo, I'll sport some HMT stickers...cause it's gonna be ghetto.

-Tim

dragon

black makes everything looks good

TekPhobia

Call me crazy but....

The cam covers were already painted black. I wanted to paint the letters red. I decided on spray painting 'em. So, I masked off an area and sprayed the letters. Then, I wiped the excess red off the covers.

Now...how do you repaint the top part of the covers w/out covering the red? (the letters are embossed btw).

I tried a few different things. For the first cover, I used water, sprayed the cover black and then popped the bubble:



For the second cover, I wanted to see if I could do it differently. I tried wax, that failed miserably. Then I tried baking flour; bleh...

So, I went back to using water. Long story short...



-Tim

import_tuner

Damn the black cover w/ red letter looks tight. A+ from me.

AgentMurdoc

Nice very nice. The way I would have just done up the red letters, is by either buying a red paint marker, or using finger nial polish and doing it up.

Either way I would have done it by hand. Or even get the red spray paint, spray it into a 'dish' and get a little paint brush and go crazy.

But there is another approach I just though of, hobbie shops should have this masking solution, wthat's liquid and you could mask off stuff like with masking tape but with a lot more percision and accuracy.

But yeah, I'm too late and you already done and it looks good!