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Topic: update: powered by svt plaque on, just finished painting my Cam covers for my Cobra
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Chavez66
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I just finished painting my cam covers on my pacific green cobra. I got all the supplies from Kragens, I started with this project a couple days ago and came out great. I just wanted to give a huge thanks to Matt aka 19mystic96 who helped me out a lot with all the tips and advice. Here's some pics of the work,
I got these cam covers from Ford Recyclers on Sunrise
This is after some degreaser and brake cleaner
Some sanding, preping for high temp primer
Masking everything off
After some primer
Paint goes on
Clear coat sets it off just right
Next on the books is the intake and them everyrhing is going back on, ill post pics later. Thanks again Matt
[ May 03, 2011, 01:36 AM: Message edited by: Chavez66 ]
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fstryde3
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Damn lookin good man always love when people do the little touches to match their cars.
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BruhBrahBrad
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is that high temp paint, or just high temp primer?
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dubfive-0
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looks good. How many coats of paint and clear you sprayed?
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Buena mierda! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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svt306snake
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Man that came out great! Gonna set the engine bay off! From the guy with the pretty cobra that doesn't sound good!
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looks good man
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Wildfire532FB
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Looks sik. I always liked that touch.
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Chavez66
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Originally posted by dubfive-0:
looks good. How many coats of paint and clear you sprayed?
I sprayed 3 coats of paint kinda heavy so it won't chip and then sprayed 3 light coats of clear to give it that nice glossy look, it match's my car pretty damn good
[ April 28, 2011, 02:28 AM: Message edited by: Chavez66 ]
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Chavez66
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Originally posted by Mach 5oh:
is that high temp paint, or just high temp primer?
I only used high temp primer, that's all you really need. For the paint I used Duplicolor perfect match pacific green paint, I got everything from kragens pritty cheap, I used a 400 grit sand paper throughout the whole process
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JohnCM
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Looks like a fun project
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TrillaJay
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looks good maynnnn
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SydeWaySix
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Very nice! Make sure to post pics when it's all installed. Are you doing anything else to the engine bay, ie: hiding some wires, deleting some stuff,shaving the walls, etc?
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U did those with a rattle can? They actually came out pretty good. I'm always scarred to shoot clear out of can but Those came out nice
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Not bad!! Nice job!
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Chavez66
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Originally posted by 166 Merlot:
U did those with a rattle can? They actually came out pretty good. I'm always scarred to shoot clear out of can but Those came out nice
Yea everything was rattle canned with duplicolor paint, I was gunna have them professionally done until I talked to 19mystic96 and he told me how to do it. So I decided to do it myself and came out great, once you start the project its not that bad
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Chavez66
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Originally posted by SydeWaySix:
Very nice! Make sure to post pics when it's all installed. Are you doing anything else to the engine bay, ie: hiding some wires, deleting some stuff,shaving the walls, etc?
Thanks sydewaysix I had fun doing it, well I'm goin to do the throttle body and I also painted my cold air too, as far as engine bay shaving and all that probably no time soon. I'm just going to have it real clean and maybe a few more things, this is my daily driver and far from a show car haha just wanted to do a little custom work
Here's the cam covers, I painted the little covers gloss black
And the intake, the orange parts will be black when I go to install everything
[ April 28, 2011, 11:08 AM: Message edited by: Chavez66 ]
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they came out nice, good job ![[patriot]](graemlins/patriot.gif) its amazing what you can accomplish with alittle time and effort ![[burnout]](graemlins/burnout.gif)
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Chavez66
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Originally posted by SAV650HAB:
they came out nice, good job its amazing what you can accomplish with alittle time and effort
thanks bro, yea you just have to make sure to take your time and it comes out looking great
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FordRyderz510
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Originally posted by Chavez66:
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Originally posted by 166 Merlot:
U did those with a rattle can? They actually came out pretty good. I'm always scarred to shoot clear out of can but Those came out nice
Yea everything was rattle canned with duplicolor paint, I was gunna have them professionally done until I talked to 19mystic96 and he told me how to do it. So I decided to do it myself and came out great, once you start the project its not that bad
so share with us and tell us how it was done! maybe ill start doing mine as well..they starting to look a bit dull.
lookz good for kragen suppliez
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svt68
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great job!! ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
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Chavez bro the parts look good.
But i have to wonder if you have ever pulled the valve covers from a 4V car with the motor still in the engine bay? The passenger side will come off fairly easy, but requires some finess due to the height of the cams. The driver side is nearly impossible to get off due to the brake boosters location. I had to loosen my motor mount and rock the motor in order to do it and it still scratched the hell out of the cover. Do you have polyurethane or stock mounts also? It may be easier with the stock mounts, but be prepared to loosen the mounts and rock the motor if you want to get them off without removing a lot of the paint from the cover. A word to the wise would be to make sure the gasket does not get tweaked or stretched on the install. I had a hell of a time reinstalling mine so just giving you a heads up. The aftermarket gaskets from kragen, autozone, napa are not the same quality as the ones that came from the factory.
Good luck with the install man
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