quick question - painted valve covers?
Posted:
Fri Jan 21, 2011 1:14 amby pandapoo4u
i have 3 b18 valve covers sitting in my garage and was thinking about painteing them to look newer and selling them
so im asking
1. what colors would you like to see
2. how much would you be willing to pay for one fresh painted/ trade crap one for painted plus how much cash kind of thing
...2 have the honda logo and one does not
Posted:
Wed Jan 26, 2011 7:29 amby mADmAN
the normal black n red has pretty much been overdone in my opinion. perhaps try some other colors like blue or whatever else..
ive even seen one in takata green. though badly painted, still looked pretty decent n unique.
flat black is also something interesting to see.. saw a 4G63 with a flat black valve cover once and it looked pretty hawt.
and id recommend having them powder coated though for durability's sake.
Posted:
Wed Jan 26, 2011 8:26 amby Flatland_EG
I'd have to say powder coating is the way to go as well, it's very durable and pretty much any color you can think of is available.
Here's a few our local shop did for there in store display a couple years back, this is just the tip of the iceberg as far as colors go.
http://tintmasters.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3093
Check out the colors that just DuPont has available.
http://links.dupontpowder.com/DUPONTCCDOTNET/default_newdupont.aspx
and
http://links.dupontpowder.com/DUPONTCCDOTNET/default_newdupont.aspx?ptype=custom
Harbor Freight sells a small DIY powder coating gun and powder(in store colors are limited) fairly cheap and if you can find an old oven somebody doesn't want you could do the powder coating yourself very cheaply, possibly even do it for other people to earn a few extra bucks.
Posted:
Wed Jan 26, 2011 10:05 amby ceelx
from this website --->
http://tintmasters.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3093
i like 3rd .
i have same problem now
and my friend paint me my valv cover.
this color is sick
Posted:
Wed Jan 26, 2011 2:18 pmby pandapoo4u
ok so im better off just stripping them and getting color requests?
as far as prices i was going to go with 10 plus a cover and 30 just straight out for the regular paint
stripped is 7 a can and paint is 6 here and they do 2 covers so im not making a huge profit just something to keep me busy
Posted:
Wed Jan 26, 2011 6:31 pmby 94EJ2
strip and polish looks clean
Posted:
Fri Jan 28, 2011 1:05 amby pandapoo4u
94EJ2 wrote:strip and polish looks clean
never polished before heard it a lot of work and im going for a quick fix