Subject	So, I messed up painting my own valve covers over the
Posted by	SpeedyZX on August 30, 2012 at 5:07 PM
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Message	weekend. On Monday, I took my messed up valve covers to a powder coater near me. I tried to strip the paint myself but I made the situation worse. I didn't strip much, just ended up smearing the VHT wrinkle plus paint all over the place and made a mess of it. Unfortunately, I didn't take any pictures of the carnage that I caused. I only have before pictures and after pictures. The valve covers came out beautifully but my iPhone 4S camera takes crappy pictures indoors. I was originally told that they would be done by Friday close of business but he was finished with them this morning. How awesome is that? I dropped them off along with my chrome plenum at my mechanic's shop and that is the last of my parts that were outstanding. My next posts should be of my car back together before ZCON. Valve covers fresh off the engine. So grimy, dirty, and nasty with 186,800 miles on them... Here is the finished product fresh from the powder coaters. They charged me $200.00 for stripping off the VHT paint nightmare with Jasco, media blasting, and then powdercoat. I was told that it would be a bit cheaper if they didn't have to remove the paint and just had to work with the valve covers after I degreased them... I eat rice, I don't put rice on my car! sig quote by AEFL92, "you're not a pic whore...you're a pic pornstar..."
Follow Ups	So, I messed up painting my own valve covers over the - SpeedyZX 17:07:38 08/30/12 It would have cost you $10 for aircraft paint stripper - TriniTT 17:24:02 08/30/12 The $200 is inclusive of other prep-work and powdercoating. - MixManMash 17:29:14 08/30/12 I was thinking, - TriniTT 17:48:19 08/30/12 I actually really, really wanted to get the wrinkle finish. - SpeedyZX 18:06:51 08/30/12 Unfortunately, I was under a time crunch for ZCON and had - SpeedyZX 17:33:29 08/30/12 True. - TriniTT 17:43:56 08/30/12 aircraft paint stipper works great. But since you had no - bjZ 19:11:31 08/30/12 No sand blasting, soda blasting is ALOT safer (n/m) - toykoz32 20:06:19 08/30/12 Agree, sand blasting requires a LOT of careful clean-up (n/m) - cherryz 10:50:00 08/31/12 It's a shame that you can hardly see them once installed. (n/m) - SWhiteTT(WA) 19:47:04 08/30/12 They should not have coated the top lip where the oil cap - whip 20:56:04 08/30/12 Sorry but they took you to the cleaners, first they did not - CmyZ 00:21:56 08/31/12 gotta say he's right - BlackholeZ 00:42:23 08/31/12
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