Valve Cover Question

[Edwin_Origel]

Whats up fellas? Alright so my buddy and I are working on this Kid's 325i. This kid is getting everything redone, OMG you guys would die or wana commit suicide if you saw how badly treated this car is. OIL LEAKS on top and bottom of engine and in places where you thought oil wouldnt go to. Anyhow, as a good E30 Enthusiast, I feel like it is my respondsibility to give the kid some Advice and to do this I need to motivate him to take care of his car.

I was wondering if anyone knows how to powder-coat? Im going to paint this kids valve cover and it will look nice once i clean off the whole engine, however I dont know how to powder-coat or give that effect to the valve cover. Can anyone help? Does this even make sense? If it doesnt im sorry its like 6:15 in the morning...

[aaron_silva]

You can send the piece you want to be powdercoated to a professional. I would recomend just using high temp paint.

Before you start painting stuff I would highly recomend fixing any and all leaks. Make sure the car is in good running order before starting to modify it.

BTW- Whats up Edwin. :D

Thanks

[Edwin_Origel]

Whats up Aaron! Umm... yeah I would get it professionally done, however, i want to do it myself... wana help? I mean this kid hellla messed up this car... im only gonna be doing some of the cosmetics

[Brian 89 325i]

As for powdercoating goes you need the right tools. Spray guns and ovens and such. I dont think its to be left to the normal guy.
The way i look at it, if there is a special place that does just ONE thing that i want done, i probably couldnt do it myself.(ie. CNC,trans rebuild, powdercoat, etc....)

Brian

[aaron_silva]

Edwin, we could clean the cover, spray it with high temp. paint and sand down the raised fins for the nice finished look.

Powercoating (correctly done) needs to be sprayed with an attractive charge, then baked in an oven to let the particles "flow" giving the piece a nice even finish. Pretty much, not a do it yourself kinda thing.

Thanks

[e30evolution]

if you have a kilm and the powder coat then you can do it.... basically when you pay someone to do it, it costs the same to powdercoat one small thing as it does to powdercoat as much as it takes to fill the oven,,,,, what they do is spray inside the oven and bake it on... it is an actual powder that liquifies and solidifies when it cools.... basically if you get a lot of friends that want stuff powdercoated you could get them to pay for it, you just set it up

[Brian 89 325i]

/\ Thats KILN

Brian

[rward325]

I had my valve cover podercoated for $35.00. It is an inexoensive process these days. This is not a DIY project you want to undetake unless you have more money than you know what to do with.

[Inspar8r]

I had my valve cover podercoated for $35.00. It is an inexoensive process these days. This is not a DIY project you want to undetake unless you have more money than you know what to do with.

Amen, i can get my calipers powdercoated for 50 for all the parts associated. It's not expensive nowadays.