Show me your valve cover!

CrunchyAdams82 · Post by **CrunchyAdams82** » Sun Apr 20, 2014 7:25 pm

Nice one Gavin. The carbon fibre wrapped plug cover looks good.

And Nitin, love the chrome one..but don't know how to achieve that finish.

Also, what paint finish is that final blue one do you know?

Post by **Donald** » Sun Apr 20, 2014 7:27 pm

Well you need some silver nitrate....

Post by **Vtecmec** » Sun Apr 20, 2014 7:28 pm

CrunchyAdams82 wrote:love the chrome one..but don't know how to achieve that finish.

@Kawa ran a polished one for a while, may still do?

CrunchyAdams82 · Post by **CrunchyAdams82** » Sun Apr 20, 2014 7:31 pm

Again with the silver nitrate Donald.

You wanna make me some?

Post by **Vtecmec** » Sun Apr 20, 2014 7:38 pm

Maybe a little safer than silver nitrate........

http://www.chromepaint.com/

Post by **RattyMcClelland** » Sun Apr 20, 2014 8:55 pm

CrunchyAdams82 · Post by **CrunchyAdams82** » Sun Apr 20, 2014 9:07 pm

You know what, I should probably be trying this myself really. When taking off the paint on the letters, to get them back to bare metal, do you then lacquer over the top?

And do you need to polish the bare metal, or treat it, before lacquering?

Post by **Kawa** » Sun Apr 20, 2014 9:16 pm

Vtecmec wrote:
CrunchyAdams82 wrote:love the chrome one..but don't know how to achieve that finish.
@Kawa ran a polished one for a while, may still do?

Yep. Still polished. Although not been done for about 6 years but still looks presentable.

CrunchyAdams82 · Post by **CrunchyAdams82** » Sun Apr 20, 2014 9:24 pm

Nice. Show us a pic.

Post by **RattyMcClelland** » Sun Apr 20, 2014 11:17 pm

Sand the letters back after everything is sprayed up and leave it bare. Lacquer will peel away from bare aluminium.
Hence crappy milky diamond cut wheels.