When you set your expectations low as fuck, you'll be satisfied more often! I painted the valve covers.
Let's see:
-Dented, rusty and pitted valve covers that are greasier than a McDonalds next to a vape store.
-Expertly removed a couple dents and created atleast as many more. Gouged the other one nicely aswell as I removed the spotwelded solenoid bracket.
-Hour and a half of prepping with a rag, a wire brush, a strippin disc and paint stripper goop from 1993, fueled by Nekromantix, cheap beer and frustration.
-An old can of some rust-stopper primer and 6,99€ can of general purpose gold spray paint. Might be incompatible paints, might not.
-Painting outside on the windy and dusty driveway.
-Getting runs in the primer means getting runs in the color coat doesn't annoy as much.
They looked like absolute garbage with the primer spat on them, but the metallic gold "texture" actually hides the rust pitting pretty well all considered.
Buuuut as if anyone is going the even see those valve covers under the million hoses and lines in the engine bay anyways.
The shade isn't as orange in person:
I guess I'll be reusing the factory heater hose fitting:
The straight fitting looks dumb as shit, even though the hose ends up just as high with the 45° fitting.
I'll be cleaning up that damn fitting aswell...
Let's see:
-Dented, rusty and pitted valve covers that are greasier than a McDonalds next to a vape store.
-Expertly removed a couple dents and created atleast as many more. Gouged the other one nicely aswell as I removed the spotwelded solenoid bracket.
-Hour and a half of prepping with a rag, a wire brush, a strippin disc and paint stripper goop from 1993, fueled by Nekromantix, cheap beer and frustration.
-An old can of some rust-stopper primer and 6,99€ can of general purpose gold spray paint. Might be incompatible paints, might not.
-Painting outside on the windy and dusty driveway.
-Getting runs in the primer means getting runs in the color coat doesn't annoy as much.
They looked like absolute garbage with the primer spat on them, but the metallic gold "texture" actually hides the rust pitting pretty well all considered.
Buuuut as if anyone is going the even see those valve covers under the million hoses and lines in the engine bay anyways.
The shade isn't as orange in person:
I guess I'll be reusing the factory heater hose fitting:
The straight fitting looks dumb as shit, even though the hose ends up just as high with the 45° fitting.
I'll be cleaning up that damn fitting aswell...
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