official valvecover thread

This is for all those PICTURE THREADS ONLY. Motor installs, product writeups, showing off your car, put the thread in here.
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official valvecover thread

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post your valvecover jobs.


ill start with mine thus far



my first "pretty" valvecover

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and the one im rockin now 8)

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nice.. i need to get a cam so i can get pics of mine.. i have one that im rock thats gunmetal and one that im polishing at the moment :twisted:
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how do you get it chrome like that... i want mine chrome.... do you sand it down to remove the factory gold color or what?
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that second one looks like silver paint hence the overspray on the cardboard its sitting on.. and the paper in the holes
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this was done for a good friend of mine i did it in 2 days 4 hrs(taking my time and give 1 hr to dry each coat) each day.it was done with car paint and clear.
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the 2nd one has been sanded to get all the bumps out and then polished.... a lot. then the center sprayed black and then high temp clear over all of it so that it can be touched without having to repolish all the time.
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ridin, great job, love the color scheme, it should have come like that stock!
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Did mine in purple with some left over paint, way better than the OEM peeling finish.
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dont have a camera or id try to get a better one, but thats all i got right now.
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that looks nice. im sure its a pain trying to keep it white
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i dont think i have a good pic of mine. its just black with polished lettering (or rather, i just sanded off the paint so they are bare metal - but they were cleared over).

my next one is gonna be fully polished and clearcoated for easy cleaning, along with the intake manifold, upper and lower timing covers, lower water neck, compressor housing, and all my piping. maybe even do polished hard radiator pipes if i can.

it will also get the lettering shaved off of it too for a smooth look, and im going to grind off all of the holes that were used for the spark plug wire holders since i don't use those anymore. the intake will get all of the unused mounting holes and casting marks ground off as well.
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going all out eh dan? lol

yeah, when i put my rebuilt motor in i had piloshed all the front timing covers, waterneck, and painted the intake mani. and yes. the clear coat helps so much to keep away the water marks and finger prints on the VC
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here's mine.

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lol yeah. im having mine professionally polished though, i dont have the patience for "good" polishing.


and yeah my current one looks just like rivera's. ^ but much dirtier.
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First KAT
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what made you go through so many ka-t's?
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Altma would work, right?

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here is mine..
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AND HERE IT IS INSTALLED......
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Used metalcast paint, came out different than I expected but I kind of like it
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bad pic but its gun metal grey with the letters sanded so they arent the same color.. then cleared
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and not a ka but some more 2.4L love... just sanded vc.. painted block as you can see lol

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