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I scratched my valve covers so I took them off to paint them. Do I have to use high temp paint or will regular car paint work.
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Why don't you powder coat them? If you spent the time to remove them, spend some $ to make them look really good!!!
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I never thought about doing that I was thinking of painting it black then painting the raises in the top the same color as my car.
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I would use "high temp" or "engine" paint.
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for black covers on my lt1 i sanded em down and spray canned them with high temp calper paint.. it came out great try that
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yeah def use high temp paint and make sure you at least scuff them up so the paint has something to stick to
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