Serj22
Well-Known Member
Not sure if it was better suited for /6 or general discusion, but I decided to take a break from my rodded radios projects and made a move on the valve cover I took off the dart. Surprising enough, the red paint seemed to just fall off of it with one hit of paint remover. I barely had to try. I cleaned off the surface rust (pretty good shape) and decided to leave the dents and quirks and work them into the design.
Hit it with some gray primer, and let it dry for 2 days. Then I took some oil that I found on various parts of the engine block and thinned it out with paint thinner, and then smeared it on the cover in a couple locations. Then I got to marking... and it took a couple hours...
This is all going to be background when the real deal is on here... but it must be done... This cover is going to be 100% hand done, except for the final coats of clear at the end. I'll spray those.
Added a coat of cross-hatched aluminum, thined, and ran over lines again.
And that's it for the first 3 days of this project. Once it's all done I'll pop the old seal where the hose sits on the back of the cover and install a shiny new black one, so paint over on that is not an issue... The smeared oil effect might be lost to the aluminum coat... but in the end, we'll see.
Hit it with some gray primer, and let it dry for 2 days. Then I took some oil that I found on various parts of the engine block and thinned it out with paint thinner, and then smeared it on the cover in a couple locations. Then I got to marking... and it took a couple hours...
This is all going to be background when the real deal is on here... but it must be done... This cover is going to be 100% hand done, except for the final coats of clear at the end. I'll spray those.
Added a coat of cross-hatched aluminum, thined, and ran over lines again.
And that's it for the first 3 days of this project. Once it's all done I'll pop the old seal where the hose sits on the back of the cover and install a shiny new black one, so paint over on that is not an issue... The smeared oil effect might be lost to the aluminum coat... but in the end, we'll see.