i was looking into powdercoating my valve cover and calipers, if i remove my valve cover will i messup my timming? or will i be able to unbolt, paint, and rebolt? thank you

 

Unbolt, paint and re-bolt.

 

cool thanks im sure theres threads on this already but i use my phone's enternet to get on here and it limits what i can do

 

bump for more suggestions preferably gene

 

unbolt, paint, bolt back on.

Can't get much simpler...

 

has anyone done this themselves without powdercoating?

 

valve cover easy, calipers will have to be bled, sometimes a pain in the @$$

 

ok but everyone agrees here that unbolt, paint, rebolt? i just dont wanna **** anything up

 

yep iv taking mine off and painted it black not powdercoat.... theres like ten bolts you gotta take out

 

that looks pretty sick! :

 

its just a cover. obviously you dont want to drive with it off, and if its off for a long time you might want to cover the area (or at least close the hood) so leaves and debris dont fall into the head, but it wont affect anything by taking it off. I've taken mine off a couple times.

 

^^^^ true. dont drive with it off obviously and make sure you cover it so nuthin gets into it

 

thanks, quick question, if i take out the cams, what is that tool that you use to keep the timing??

 

why would you want to take the cams out?? and its almost impossible to do without having to set the timing

 

swap them out with 2.4 cams, but there is a tool to keep the timing

 

I personally wouldn't paint it. It will flake off after a while and it will look like crap. One way or another, paint after a while is going to look like crap. A year after powder coating mine, it still looks like the day I installed it.

As far as installation, it is very simple and only would take about a 1/2 hour to do it.

 

thanks gene

 

I painted my throttle body last year. I primed it and sprayed a couple of coats on it and was very picky about the prep, drying time, etc. It flaked off like a mother. I just got a new throttle body and powder coated it and the problem is finished.

 

i wanna do flat black on my valve cover and super charger. dunno if i wanna take the sunday to do it or not tho.

 

the part to do it is a GM specialty tool (AKA a J-tool), but 2.4 cams aren't really an improvement worth doing this with. You should really get a custom grind...of course i think you have a LAP (i cant see your sig while typing responses )so no one makes cams for you yet

 

sheit!

 

I am going to do a red wrinkle paint job on mine using VHT wrinkle paint.

 

nah didnt you hear gene? paint will eventially chip and scratch, powder coat is the sheit :

 

the wrinkle paint will not because you bake it.

 

I am done trusting paint. That much I know