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07-18-2007, 11:11 PM

ROUDA

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painting valve covers

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.

07-19-2007, 06:35 AM

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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!!!

07-19-2007, 08:14 AM

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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.

07-19-2007, 11:17 AM

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I would use "high temp" or "engine" paint.

07-21-2007, 02:00 AM

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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

07-21-2007, 10:04 AM

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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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