So I'm sitting at home doing nothing with the engine apart in the car, waiting for tomorrow to go get a few parts and wrap up the car. I had a ricer moment while cleaning some parts and I decided to paint something. Started with the valve cover, then I did the fuel rail. Pics . . . .

 

Meh, I like it

 

valve cover looks sick dude

 

i thought I had some black wrinkle paint, but I didn't, so I used what I had. Low-gloss black, but it looks alright for now. Meh, i'm undecided.

 

If it helps you decide any better, I wish I had any paint skills to take on the task myself

 

I've painted all kinds of ****, from rattle can to in a spray booth, did a couple big diesel engines with AWLGrip, **** like that. This stuff is easy, 10 min to clean and tape, 10 min to paint a couple coats, let it sit ovenight. Already had it off the car, so no biggie.

Also, to learn, start with flat black, its painfully easy to do right, it dries fast and hides your mistakes very well. If you decide later that you don't like it, it also works as a good primer

Try painting some small stuff with basic $1 spray paint to get a feel for it, you'll be painting all kinds of **** in no time at all. Learn to tape stuff up correctly and it gets even easier.

 

looks clean, i like it. could be worse haha

 

I'm not one for paint on a car like this, but the valve cover was looking like ass from getting **** on it and me not cleaning it regularly, and it didn't want to come clean. I don't have time to take it to work and sandblast it, so this was the only easy solution... I will have to run it by my mod judge (my buddy Danny) and see what he thinks. He has an inner ricer as well, so he will probably tell me to keep it.

 

ricer

 

I'll never paint my rims... STFU.

 

lol ..i feel the love joseph

 

You know it. Now get out of my thread.

 

this is mike lol

 

**** your fake Cobra. You need boost/spray.

 

That's not ricer... a lot of people here painted their valve cover

 

^^^captin obvious


kthnxby

 

lol its me again muhahahha im sneaky like this...im sleepin ova again i prac. live here, sry u couldnt come over joe lmao we know how u think

roflberry pwnsauce

 

Crap, you approve of it. Now I know its rice.

 

lol, it looks good joe. a lot better than it looked before. rock it painted for awhile and then get it powdercoated

 

Ehh, paint is free, powdercoating is like $80. I'm good.

 

came out good i like it

 

black valve covers ftw....welcome to the club

 

Yeah, I think it will look pretty ok with the fuel rail done too, I'm hoping it looks ok.

bump for more input...

Has anyone painted the fuel rail before?

 

lmao!

i say just cover it up with some paint that matches your bay.
black is too overly done, especially with a car that isn't actually black.
you did a good job painting it though, but yea, its just too plain and it sounds like you're thinking that too.

idk that its rice, its not that bad, but not that good either :P

 

What do you mean matches the bay? You mean yellow like the car? I don't think so. Black matches with damn near anything, there isn't anything shiny under my hood, so it won't look too out of place, i'm just not big on painting **** in a situation like this. If the motor was out, the whole car would get painted under hood and the whole motor and everything on it would get sprayed, but this was not the case.

We all have our ricer moments sometimes, I have a very powerful inner ricer, he escapes once in a while.