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Valve cover - making it pretty

philosopheriam

philosopheriam

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Folks,

The clearcoat on my valve cover was shot - I soda blasted the cover down to bare aluminum and it looks great, but I am debating painting it with Dupli-Color or VHT aluminum.

What have you folks done with yours? Paint? Polish? Powdercoat? Just curious...
 
Polished mine. Looks best if you have polished your sidecovers and don't have a black engine.
 
philosopheriam said:
Folks,

The clearcoat on my valve cover was shot - I soda blasted the cover down to bare aluminum and it looks great, but I am debating painting it with Dupli-Color or VHT aluminum.

What have you folks done with yours? Paint? Polish? Powdercoat? Just curious...
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Mine came chromed! Easy to clean.:cool:

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chuck hahn said:
VHT part number SP-127 is a dead on match for the original engine color.
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Thanks Chuck - I'm leaning towards the paint right now...

Polishing sounds interesting, but the cover has lots of nooks and crannies that might make polishing very difficult.
 
I would have used VHT universal aluminum, but I couldn't get it locally. I went with the Dupli-color and have been satisfied.
 
Most of it's hidden under the tank anyway. A lot of effort in polishing for not a lot of bling I reckon.
 
I used the VHT SP735 on a peeling chrome cover and it looks good enough.
It matches the factory engine paint almost exactly and is rated to 900 degrees. ;)
 
Every little bit if cooling is worth striving for especially in a climate like where i live,chroming would be the worst next worst powdercoating and/or polishing prob the best is a flat black etch primer straight after blasting which is the best finish for radiating energy
 
Thanks for the pics, they look GREAT!

I am awaiting mine back from the powder coaters.
I only had them do the boring stock look.
 
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