Boilermaker1

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Nothin' says lovin' like valve cover from the oven....


It didnt come out perfect but it came out good enough for my appearance purposes...

boosted.es2

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dude. fkin hotness. never seen anything like that before. i like it.

edit: i see a vodka bottle... drunk much? lol

RHCP0801

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damn lol, are you getting anything else to match that in the engine bay? i hope

TransformedBG

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i think some nice socks would work!

Boilermaker1

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Well, I could say, but I'd rather leave it for later.... It'll all flow when its finished.

Alpha 5

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I will refrain from coments till I see the finished bay.

doctor

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Thats so rice.....

LT2004ever

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very nice, how did u do it? like the steps, or is this something else imma have to search for lol

TRIZ

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X2 I think that bottle of vodka had something to do with this.

I just realized the girl-scout cookies AND the yellow rubber gloves, you sick man... lol

speakeasy

looks like fun

EM2 Shinobi

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damn nice

Eyger

That's interesting. I like it because it's different. I hope it turns out the way that you want.

DsevenEm2

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cute....let us know when u have it in the engine bay

speedfoos

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Are you stuffing a goth girl into your engine bay? Or using the new emo alarm system? The one that cuts the iginition when it gets its feelings hurt?

J/K good stuff man. Is that powdercoat or enamel?

54321r

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^^what he asked

Rennen

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i doubt that he could do powdercoating in his oven . its probably hi temp engine paint.

MisterFrankieJ

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I was expecting something orange.....

speedfoos

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What are you talking about? You're supposed to use an oven to DRY the piece that has just been powdercoated, not powdercoat a piece IN the oven.

hotrodcivic2004

unique to say the least. i like it.

Rennen

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do u have any idea of how powdercoating works? the powder particles have a one electric charge, and the object being powdercoated has the opposite charge, so the powder sticks to the object. after that, yes, it is put in an oven to cure. but theres no way he could DIY that... unless he has a powder coating machine in his garage . in any case, you can see the over spray on some areas, so he probably spray painted it.

skipbarber

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^why not? you can purchase powdercoating guns from sears and do it without any fancy machines. i think thats what speedfoos is talking about.

Boilermaker1

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Its duplicolor engine paint.... 20 min in the oven @ 200 to cure it. If I wanted perfection, I would have powdercoated it and paid someone a lot of money to deal with it. I didnt need it to be perfect... so I DIYed it, its good enough, I put the money in the motor rather than on it.... a "3 foot job" if you will.
And to address the gloves, the cookies and the Stoli.... the cookies are tasty, the gloves are for when I stripped the valve cover with aircraft stripper, which is nasty ****, and the bottle always sits there, and its been there for a while.

speedfoos

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Yes I know how powdercoating works, and I'm learning how boilermaker1 works - which I is why I wouldn't have been surprised to know that he as a powdercoating setup in his garage. They're not that expensive, you can pick one up off of harborfreight.com for around $200. In fact I just had my valve cover powdercoated. Although in retrospect he probably would have titled the thread "Powdercoated my spare VC" had that been the case. Oh well.

My PC'd VC.

hotrodcivic2004

sigh....i wish $200 to me is 'not that expensive'. i like yur cover though.

TRIZ

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Looks pretty good! How much did that job cost?

speedfoos

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$135 shipped. Check out racecoated.com. Steve is the guy owns the site and does it out of his house as a side project.

Rennen

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really? im gonna have to look into that. i've been wanting to powdercoat my rims but didnt want to pay someone a left nut to do it.

54321r

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is that tape on it in the oven?

Boilermaker1

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Yes.... its only 200 degrees. Tape can handle it.

Um... I dont have a garage. I live in a 6th floor apartment. I'm building a motor in a closet, I do dirtywork in the bathroom or down in the building carwash bay. The bathtub is my parts washer if there's no chemicals involved. I gotta do **** creatively around here, I cant afford a place with a garage within a stones throw of DC. I WISH I had a garage, it would make life easy.

Anyone interested in the process...
Strip it... I used a mix of aircraft stripper to start it, 60 and 100 grit sandpaper and dremel stainless steel brushes
Wash it .... soap and water, then shoot it with brake cleaner or wipe with alcohol, then dry
I was just concerned, can you blame me? I don't want them to rust through and fall apart on me
Primer... 2 even coats
Light color ... easier to cover with dark than to try to paint over a dark color
----- Oven 15 minutes at 200 deg F
Mask off what you want to KEEP
Dark color...
Oven 20 min at 200 deg F
Remove tape

And everyone screaming powdercoat... first find a place that can powdercoat a warning stripe pattern like that, then fathom how much it would cost, given that a 1 color solid coat is over a hundred. Maybe then will you get why I spent $18 on some spray paint. I'll be packing 200+ HP underneath that cover, so honestly... I put the major money where it needs to be, and then spent a couple bucks screwing around with non-functional stuff. (That last sentence is how Boiler functions... write it down).

marcuse

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***** wack , but i like it