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

 

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

 

nice, man nice. Ther black looks super slick

Where are the finished red letters pics?

 

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

 

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


whats it going in again?

 

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

 

black makes everything looks good

 

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

 

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

 

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!