Has anyone painted their valve cover?

[Peterson]

Well...

Has anyone painted their valve cover?

 

[TyphoonFiST]

Well...

Has anyone painted their valve cover?

I nominate you to be the First to do a DIY!

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[flbchbm]

No, because it doesn't add HP. Bumper stickers and racing stripes do.

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[Jabbit]

We don't have an attractive/traditional valve cover so I personally don't want to paint it to draw more attention to it. But that's just me. Just me and 99.5% of this forum I suspect.

 

[Crv]

Yes..


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[Jabbit]

Ok that I could get on board with. Was going to trash mine but might try this. Btw that's the engine cover not the valve cover.

 

[LionsTooth]

Back in the 80s black wrinkle paint was the way to go. I loved it.

 

[Jabbit]

Back in the 80s black wrinkle paint was the way to go. I loved it.

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Wrinkle black is timeless. If I could powder coat a truck wrinkle black I would.

 

[Dpro]

Yes..


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Engine Cover does not make Valve cover yet I applaud your effort.

 

[Peterson]

Yeah I mean the plastic valve cover, not the engine cover. I hate the engine cover and never have it on. I think it could look pretty neat to see the area around the oil cap and coil packs be a different color.

Yes I am very aware it adds no horsepower. I am taking the valve cover off soon to get my injectors cleaned, so I figured I’d ask if anyone painted the plain black plastic. It’s gonna be off anyways 🤷🏻‍♂️

 

[Intuit]

It adds 0.0000000000000000001482761 lbs and thereby makes the car slower. No.

Personally don't spend any resources prettying-up things that remain out-of-sight, but @Crv 's engine cover does look pretty good. Mine of course would be Kona Blue. 😉

Engine cover removed, our engine isn't exactly pretty... lots of "random" lines running in every which direction. (photo from different model vehicle)
If you do it, be sure to follow up with a photo or few. Curious.
For the uninitiated, the plastic dome piece is some part of the exhaust manifold I believe. Shows how far plastics have come.

 

[Peterson]

It adds 0.0000000000000000001482761 lbs and thereby makes the car slower. No.

Personally don't spend any resources prettying-up things that remain out-of-sight, but @Crv 's engine cover does look pretty good. Mine of course would be Kona Blue. 😉

Engine cover removed, our engine isn't exactly pretty... lots of "random" lines running in every which direction. (photo from different model vehicle)
If you do it, be sure to follow up with a photo or few. Curious.
For the uninitiated, the plastic dome piece is some part of the exhaust manifold I believe. Shows how far plastics have come.

YOU have an untidy engine bay. I have a 2J Intake, smaller battery, and Damond OCC that routes a lot of stuff away from the coil pack area. I do believe you’d have to paint the plastic cover on top of the plastic valve cover to make it look like one thing. I’ll find the part numbers of the

 

[Peterson]

Probably would have to do both of these:

 

[Intuit]

YOU have an untidy engine bay. I have a 2J Intake, smaller battery, and Damond OCC that routes a lot of stuff away from the coil pack area. I do believe you’d have to paint the plastic cover on top of the plastic valve cover to make it look like one thing. I’ll find the part numbers of the

Not just me, likely greater than 95% of people. 😉
Post a photo. Using a computer you can just copy/paste the photo directly into the text box area... no longer any need to upload and link from an external site.

 

[M-Sport fan]

It adds 0.0000000000000000001482761 lbs and thereby makes the car slower. No.

Personally don't spend any resources prettying-up things that remain out-of-sight, but @Crv 's engine cover does look pretty good. Mine of course would be Kona Blue. 😉

Engine cover removed, our engine isn't exactly pretty... lots of "random" lines running in every which direction. (photo from different model vehicle)
If you do it, be sure to follow up with a photo or few. Curious.
For the uninitiated, the plastic dome piece is some part of the exhaust manifold I believe. Shows how far plastics have come.
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Are you speaking to that plastic thing right in front of the crossover intake piping??

I am with you on the engine bay blingy shit, I will not even do an aftermarket battery tie-down, and I WANT the engine bay to look as 'factory' as possible, for many reasons.

I'd rather spend coin I do not have on actual functional items (except for the exhaust system in my case), but hey if you've got the bucks, go to town!

 

[Peterson]

Are you speaking to that plastic thing right in front of the crossover intake piping??

I am with you on the engine bay blingy shit, I will not even do an aftermarket battery tie-down, and I WANT the engine bay to look as 'factory' as possible, for many reasons.

I'd rather spend coin I do not have on actual functional items (except for the exhaust system in my case), but hey if you've got the bucks, go to town!

What bucks? A can of $8 high temp plastic paint? 😂

 

[Intuit]

@M-Sport fan - My mistake. Intake manifold actually. I agree... got the time coin and interest, zippo wrong with hood-bling. Maybe @Peterson will give us something to oooh over. 🙂

 

[M-Sport fan]

What bucks? A can of $8 high temp plastic paint? 😂

I was NOT speaking to the simple, inexpensive/no cost, DIY stuff like that, but all of the aftermarket under hood 'dress up' type stuff, which if you add it all up, could be a bit of coin.