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Old 27-Apr-2009, 12:02 PM
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Just painted valve cover, what do you think?
just painted the valve cover, the old paint was chipping off so decided to repaint it, took me about 1 hour to remove all of the chipped paint, prep it, power wash it, then repaint. Thought about painting the honda logo but didnt have black,red, or chrome paint around so meh... Drove it around for awhile to bake it. And done. so what do you think?








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Old 27-Apr-2009, 12:22 PM
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looks good, what happened by the left top bolt?
also did you prime it? or just sand/paint?
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Old 27-Apr-2009, 01:23 PM
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f*ck man polish up your engine bay lol

looks insane though what brand/type of paint?
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Old 27-Apr-2009, 01:36 PM
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that looks like a huge steaming pile of horse ****. at least sand it before painting it. also wash your engine bay if you wana show somehitng off.
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Old 27-Apr-2009, 03:18 PM
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oh man that looks really bad
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Old 27-Apr-2009, 03:23 PM
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What kind of paint did you use. It looks sick man. you just need to clean up the engine bay like everyone said Looool.
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Old 27-Apr-2009, 03:26 PM
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Sorry but I am in the same boat my VC needs to be redone..But why not clean the engine bay as step #1???

Clean engine bay then paint the VC= done

Why paint the vc and put in back into a filthy engine bay?

kinda backwards
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Old 27-Apr-2009, 03:44 PM
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looks good..

but the engine bay needs a good cleaning.
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Old 27-Apr-2009, 04:14 PM
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how does it looks good? is everyone blind and not see the badass bubbling already? it looks like ****ing ****. re-do it!
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Old 27-Apr-2009, 04:24 PM
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how does it looks good? is everyone blind and not see the badass bubbling already? it looks like ****ing ****. re-do it!
theres no bubbling, looks like it wasnt prepped right and there was some oil/grease on it when he painted it.

looks better then stock..
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Old 27-Apr-2009, 04:26 PM
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yea and polish the heat shield too
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Old 27-Apr-2009, 04:54 PM
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yea and tear off the heat shield too
I agree

E = For Effort....Don't give up.
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Old 27-Apr-2009, 04:56 PM
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well thats what i was going to say, i actually took every heat shield off my car cuz they rust and rattle. but i have also seen them polished and it makes the bay look clean.
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Old 27-Apr-2009, 04:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Tyson09
well thats what i was going to say, i actually took every heat shield off my car cuz they rust and rattle. but i have also seen them polished and it makes the bay look clean.
lol...I can't remember if the heatshield is still on there. I think Defcon took it off.

This what happened when i had the motor bay finnished....now the motor looks like crap...lol
http://www.torontocivics.com/tccv5fo...efinished.html

lol...i think i just verified the heatshield
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Old 27-Apr-2009, 04:59 PM
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yea to me they are useless but i mean its something that just requires time just to spruce up the bay a bit.
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Old 27-Apr-2009, 10:29 PM
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looks ok. this should be in the media section,lol.
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well this is a beater car so i didnt really care about getting it done right or cleaning the dam engine bay, i bought some valve cover spray from canadian tire for like 8 bucks they only had one type so forgot the brand name cuz i returned the item and got my money back ahahah. the cars not even licensed for the road at the moment, cuz it was a beater. got my summer car out. and yes gallagher i think it doesnt look good, but better than stock, what it was before. Not trying to show off ****, hahaaha....
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Old 29-Apr-2009, 08:33 PM
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holy ****, you need a wire tuck...
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Old 30-Apr-2009, 08:17 AM
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Originally Posted by japdrifter
well this is a beater car so i didnt really care about getting it done right or cleaning the dam engine bay, i bought some valve cover spray from canadian tire for like 8 bucks they only had one type so forgot the brand name cuz i returned the item and got my money back ahahah. the cars not even licensed for the road at the moment, cuz it was a beater. got my summer car out. and yes gallagher i think it doesnt look good, but better than stock, what it was before. Not trying to show off ****, hahaaha....

ok agree'd then
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holy ****, you need a wire tuck...

why? its a civic...
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