**Doing wrinkle/flat valve covers**
 

Well I bought the stuff to redo the valve covers on both Del Sol's and lude. I have plenty left over so if anyone wants theirs done I'll do it for $25 you cover shipping. It took me about 4-5hr's to do each not including drying times.

Here are a few before and afters.

B16 done in wrinkle black

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D15 in gunmetal non wrinkle

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Here is another B16 one I just got to work on. We'll see how it turns out.

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Here is is drying up. There is some shitty lighting in my room sorry.

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Not a valve cover, but a good picture of the actual wrinkle on my 360

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Just done 7/29/08. Spruced up the "new" EK valve cover. Color came out brighter than I though. Gunmetal metallic.

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The d series cover made my peepee hard.

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10 bucks isn't worth your time. You're not a 7 year old chinese girl.

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I agree atleast charge 30 bucks to buy a pizza and some gas

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Fixed for the real businessmen

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If anyone needs it done let me know so I know not to take down my little mock paint booth. I have two more to do already. If you want any other colors I can do that. I got a good deal and bought a bit too much stripper lol

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Theres no such thing as to many strippers

Edit:im drunk i just reread it and that makes sense now.

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Care to share some info? How do you sand the raised parts down without fear of scuffing the rest? I tried and fucked up.

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why not do it powdercoated wrinkle black for almost the same price? ;) btw that b16 cleaned up very nice. what did you use to clean up the intake manifold?

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reason why he is chargeing, most people ---- them up doign it them selves.

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Bingo. Not really even charging that much considering how long it takes. I have done a few for people/myself over time and some of the ones that people tried their selves are hella ghetto.

Give me the money for powder coating equipment and I'll do your's for free lol. I actually might pick one up later one when I have more room to work with.

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I'd like to know too...

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Time. I spent probably 2-3 hours getting it totally cleaned and polished. I should have took more pictures after I cleaned the rest of the bay. Oxidation/oil/dirt over 10+ years is a bitch to get off.

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Time and what product? Or did you just use a wire wheel? I thought about cleaning mine up but if it's that involved, I'll keep it dirty.

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http://www.jhpusa.com/catalog/produc...roducts_id=221


Could you do this color I would get atleast 2 valve covers done i that color

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Not even a wire wheel. All done with fine grit sand paper. I tried a few products but it didn't do anything. You could try pressure washing, but I didn't really like the idea of that high of pressure water shooting around in the engine bay.

Now that is a clean color. I would assume you mean still in wrinkle also? I can only find wrinkle in black or red. I'm actually going to try something on my lude valve cover that might give me the right effect with a different color. I'll post it up and let you see then.

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nice apc oil cap

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I actually got that with a head I bought about 6 years ago. :P

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Tried it out on a ecu cover I had laying around. Not the exact color, but you get the idea. I didn't prep either just wiped with some cleaner. Anyways, something like this?

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Sweet man Ill send 2 vc's your way

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I bet widebody would give you $100 for that ECU cover. It would match his blue dash hahaa :1

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Lets see ;)

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Help a brotha out. How do you sand down the raised parts easily? Dremel or some fancy sanding block?

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I'm guessing he does it by hand...


A little HJ action

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Nope. A lot of time masking and trimming. If you try to polish with the paint on you are very likely to scuff it or take uneven amounts of paint off the sides. With the wrinkle if you mess up and scuff it once with sand paper or a wheel it will be fucked and look like ass.

There really isn't any secret. I'm sure anyone could do it, but by time you buy all the materials to do it right and your time it's more than what I'm charging.

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He was asking about how to get the raised, i.e. vertical letter sides smooth.

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when i did mine i just painted it all....while it wasnt fully died i took a razor blade and scraped it off...looked nice since it all came off even....just like when u peel the tape off the still semi wet paint. Masking didnt work for me since i sucked @ laying it down and trimming it.

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She's supposed to trim it before you lay it down

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I know that's what I was talking about. Does he mean to get the paint off or glossy/shiny other than the factory cut/swirl marks? To get it shiny/glossy just be ready to polish your ass of and use some metal polish afterwards. On the B16 covers I probably spent a good 1/2 shining the letters up. I did it once I already stripped all the paint off though. I wouldn't recommend trying it with paint on because it will make the paint looks hazy/scratched.

You could use a buffer type wheel, but for me I have gotten better results by hand. To do it right you need to get stripper, degreaser, cleaner, really fine grit paper 2-3k, metal polish, primer, paint, clear if you want it glossy, painters tape (get the blue stuff, the regular tape will leave glue residue and pull chunks of paint with it), and set up a mock paint booth. If you get one little bit of dust in there when it dries it will stand out like a mountain.

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http://www.raceinspired.com/images/p...DM-P730001.jpg

Just to be clear, I'm talking about the DOHC and VTEC, the H emblem and the Honda word. You mask that off prior to painting? Or do you remove it after you've painted?

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who the hell ships a valve cover in a shitload of packing peanuts?

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There were other goodies in the box ;)

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