Killin Time

[peerless]

I got bored today and decided I would paint my valve cover. I originally wanted to use a krinkle finish and then polish the fins. I could not find any high temp krinkle finish anywhere.
I went to several auto parts stores and found nothing. The last store I was at didn't even have high temp black :-( disappointed to say the least. I ended up at Home Depot of all places and found some Rust Oleom (spelling?) High Temp flat black.

It actually turned out very nice. It has a nice carbon black finish. I started to sand the fins but just wasn't working quite right so I resprayed and left it at that. I think it looks pretty good.
I am hoping to do the Intake manifold next.

Anyone have there covers powder coated? Cost estimates?

The paint looks good but scratches easily even with 6 coats of paints.

Robert
85 325e

[KenC]

[LikeCDoos]

For some reason you led me to believe that you painted it while it was still on your engine. Is that true??

[nickmpower]

here is my engine. I painted it with the stuff off the car then sanded the edges. I just used some brake caliper paint i had laying around. It turned out to be pretty durable.

[LikeCDoos]

wow looks to be a real clean job. What color is your car...i'm guessing red. I think when i do this i'm going to do the classic black.

[bimmerphile]

Crinkle Cover Article:

http://www.unofficialbmw.com/all/engine/all_painting_valve_covers.html

[Smoove1]

Crinkle coated......

[peerless]

Unfortuanatly I don't have a camera to take pics :-(
Some of the other paint jobs look very good, Thanks for sharing.
Hopefully I can get a freind to take some pics so I can post them. Nothing special though,
just a clean carbon black vavle cover. Just killing time :-)

Later
Robert
85 325e

[peerless]

"For some reason you led me to believe that you painted it while it was still on your engine. Is that true??"

uh NO.

Later.
Robert
85' 325e

[LikeCDoos]

Crinkle coated......

that looks great. one of these days i'll get you to help me do mine :)

[spencers]

mine's horrible. it came out fucking brown

[Rob]

i painted mine, but honestly its not even worth doing unless you do both the valve cover and the intake manifold

[aaron_silva]

I like the intake manifold silver for some reason. 8)

That looks hot.

[jweb]

I like the intake manifold silver for some reason. 8)

That looks hot.

That one's my favorite.

[bimmerphile]

I like the intake manifold silver for some reason. 8)

That looks hot.

That's because dave's car resembled all that was hotness in an E30 cabrio.