Wanna do one for me?

 

What one do you have?

 

le5

 

Very nice! Did you polish before the paint and then mask it all off or did you do it after?

 

Polished first and then painted. The sanding/polishing creates too much dust/residue that needs to be completely cleaned out, there's no way you could use the chemicals on the fresh paint and it would still look fresh when it got done, also you won't get the nice cut lines like you can with taping.

 

Polishing doesn't really work out on the rounded covers, it only looks good on the LSJ ones IMO because you can get a nice mirror finish (well as close as you can get on cast aluminum) and keep clean lines for the edges.

I've done this on VVT covers :

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/69/redle5.jpg/



Brush finish the raised areas, paint the cover, fill in the letters with the same or a different color ( I loved the red with black letters myself)

 

Cool cool. Very good info.

 

That's really cool. What do you charge for something like that?

 

Can do one like that for $50 plus shipping, you'd have to send me a cover though, I don't have any LE5 ones. All I have left is one 07+ L61 cover.

 

Bump maybe?

 

Nobody wants a baller valve cover?

 

Tempting, especially since I could switch out my metal valve cover the the black composite one I have sitting around.

 

Bump! I bought another LSJ core so I don't really need yours back if you don't want to send it, let's make a deal!

 

Bump this bad boy up.

 

Need to remember to switch them out next oil change, I'll send you my metal one then.