Painted valve covers
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Painted valve covers
Didn’t want to resurrect an old thread. Wrinkle coated my stock valve covers and wrapped my modified stock manifolds, then coated them with Thermo-Tec header wrap coating.
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that is very cool. I tried a crinkle paint and it failed badly. A repaint is on my winter project list. Was one can enough to cover both?
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@dburgjohn one can is definitely enough. I had enough to coat my reservoir too. I put them in the sun to dry and the crinkle effect is more pronounced than I wanted.
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I did my valve covers and exhaust manifold heat shields a couple of weeks back, while I had it all apart.
The valve covers have held up fine, but the clear coat on the manifold shields themselves is turning yellow.
I might do em over again at some point and just not clear coat em next time.
The valve covers have held up fine, but the clear coat on the manifold shields themselves is turning yellow.
I might do em over again at some point and just not clear coat em next time.
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Gosh. These 30-40 year old engines look cleaner and nicer than the engines in the newer cars I see.
I mean, it's one thing to have a nice, clean body but when you pop the hood on these old cars and they look like this, it's impressive.
Ah well. I just have a pet peeve about clean, well kept engines, I guess. I enjoy seeing them on these old cars. And most of them I see are.