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So.. this is my first DIY post! woohoo! Well I decided to paint my spark plug wire covers to match my AEM short ram intake. Sry in advanced for some of the pic quality. I only used my cell phone. Well here it is:

Products used: Duplicolor Auto Spray Primer/Scratch filler, Duplicolor Blue Metalcast Spray paint, Exacto Knife, Scott's Painter's tape, and 3m painter sandpaper. I got the paints and sand paper from an Autoparts store. The Exacto knife and painters tape from home depot. All together around 23 bucks.
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Before Pic:
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Cover: To take of the cover you just turn the two tabs. I just used a nickle. lol
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Tape up: I decided to tape up the VTec part of it. Use the exacto knife and I doubled up the tape on each letter. This take some patience, but worth it.
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Sand then Primer: I forgot to take a pic of it sanded, but all you do is a very light sanding for better adhesion. Clean the cover dirt or grease and such, but I did two coat of primer. After two coats of primer:
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After Primer Dried: I let it dry over night, but only cause it was like midnight it was dried probably in less than an hour:
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First coat of Duplicolor Metalcast Blue:
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After Second coat: I let that dry for about 5 hours and then took off the tape on the VTEC:
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And the AFTER PHOTO:
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Then I ended up doing the top of the ignition coils too:
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Well that's it. It was very simple and easy mod. Leave comments to let me know what you think! Thanks!

 
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looks good, really similar to the intake blue

 
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Looks nice, gives me some ideas for tomorrow. Good job

 
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it looks pretty good. i like that you used a paint that looks glossy and metallic sort of when its all done. looks good with the intake.

i personally am not going to do that small plastic plug cover, but ive been thinking that i might do the actual big metal valve cover underneath it eventually.

 
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here's another one done up!

 
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nice! looks really good!

 
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Thanks for the feedback guys. I think my next project is the Black engine enamel for my heat shield i saw on Anticrime's DIY. Also try to fix the rattle on my rear deck.. not sure what I am going to try, but got some ideas from reading some posts today.

 
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get some of that foam padding on a roll in the weatherstrip section. and stuff it in different places around the rear deck

 
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Hmm I got some FoamSealR from home depot its 1/4'' thick.. I just made a post on it. I got it from the insulation isle, couldn't find the weather strip section but i think this is similar to what you were talking about. Thanks for the help Gearbox!

 
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Nice DIY. Not a fan of the colour though... personally I would have painted the letters a different colour rather than leave them the old colour.

I want to paint mine but I'm not sure what colour I should do it.. perhaps I should do it SSM like the body? *shrug*

 
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good job!

 
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Thanks

 
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Same exact color I did last year

Cept, I didn't primer it, or sand it,
I just painted it, then took a large sharpie, and colored in the letters, looks more glossy that way

 
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Im going to redo mine this weekend since i have a few days off. I noticed the paint didnt stick everywhere.

 
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The heat does a number on the paint, every so often i'll re-do mine. I think i've done it maybe 3 times now since it was first done in '04.

 
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sweet job man. if you use a high tempature paint. There will be less fading. Caliber paint works great. nice Diy