I am looking to paint my spark plug cover to match the rest of my motor. I have a few ideas but figured I'd throw something up here and see what you guys have on your cars or any suggestions. I have a CF one now and don't really like it. I may sell it soon. I am working with a black and red color scheme. I will be re-painting a standard stock cover. Also has anyone had any experience with vinyl on a spark plug cover?
Ideas For Spark Plug Cover.
Started by VolvoRacer850R, Jul 08 2010 10:19 PM
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Posted 08 July 2010 - 11:24 PM
yeah...i'm thinking of doing something different too....CF cover seems to be too common now!
i'm painting mine laser blue...and the lettering yellow! I just finished masking the lettering....
i'm painting mine laser blue...and the lettering yellow! I just finished masking the lettering....
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Posted 09 July 2010 - 12:12 AM
mine is gold, han solo style
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Posted 09 July 2010 - 12:57 AM
I painted a giant fawking Banana on mine. Sh!ts tight.
Paint a set of meat curtains on it.
Paint a set of meat curtains on it.
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Posted 09 July 2010 - 01:06 AM
Paint a set of meat curtains on it.
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Posted 09 July 2010 - 01:17 AM
I painted a giant fawking Banana on mine. Sh!ts tight.
Paint a set of meat curtains on it.
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Posted 09 July 2010 - 01:57 AM
I painted a giant fawking Banana on mine. Sh!ts tight.
Paint a set of meat curtains on it.
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Posted 09 July 2010 - 02:37 AM
Paint a set of meat curtains on it.
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Posted 09 July 2010 - 04:33 AM
Paint a set of meat curtains on it.
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Posted 09 July 2010 - 05:01 AM
Well besides those any other ideas? Vinyl..... will it stay on?
Any photos ? Also how are you painting the lettering... brush or spray?
yeah...i'm thinking of doing something different too....CF cover seems to be too common now!
i'm painting mine laser blue...and the lettering yellow! I just finished masking the lettering....
Any photos ? Also how are you painting the lettering... brush or spray?
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Posted 09 July 2010 - 11:05 AM
you can get vinyl but you wont really have a smooth surface to work on, the raised letters cant be sanded down unless you patch where the letters used to be. Im headed in the same direction as TorontoR. Im just going to refinish the black for now, then do the tops of the letters in Red then do the raised parts in silver. If you do choose to somehow sand & fill to use vinyl or just use an area thats okay for vinyl you can clear it so that it wont peel up. Im clearing over mine. remember if youve never replaced your oil cap or have a shakey hand all the oil on the cover isnt going to hold paint well... clean the hell outa it. i use simple green an a tooth brush. scrub it rinse it scrub some more, with the water on it youll see where the oily spots are (similar to the gulf of mexico). with only doing paint, sand it up real good with around 400-600 grit (anything finer and the paint has a hard time sticking) then get some krylon fusion because its meant for plastics. do a coat or 2 see how it looks. if you want lightly sand it to finish it up. then after your happy with the results hit it up with a decent amount of clear coat.
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Posted 09 July 2010 - 05:03 PM
I have the new cover sanded and cleaned. I wanted to put something on the side of the cover where there wasn't any lettering. Maybe the motorsports logo or something. I would be using heat resistant paint and would do a few coats then apply the vinyl after sanding with fine sandpaper finally heat resistant clear coat the stuff out of it. I did it with the throttle cover but no vinyl and it worked great .
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Posted 09 July 2010 - 07:21 PM
I painted a giant fawking Banana on mine. Sh!ts tight.
Paint a set of meat curtains on it.
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Posted 09 July 2010 - 07:29 PM
Sh!ts tight.
Paint a set of meat curtains on it.
Edited by KoolAidKid, 09 July 2010 - 07:30 PM.
As for the cute little interest thing, i dont replace anything. Its called cleaning the system..
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Posted 11 May 2012 - 05:08 PM
Don't use brake caliper paint with a brush...Mine looks like crap..You can see every brush stroke...ha...My calipers and rotors look awesome though..
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Posted 11 May 2012 - 05:13 PM
2010.......
What have you done
What have you done
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Posted 11 May 2012 - 05:13 PM
Put a fresh coat of back and painted two red stripes on mine. Except I didn't think thwt through and the stripes are under the intercooler pipe :/
I just used black engine spray point and then some left over 601 red point I had.
Probably going to redo this before carlisle.
I just used black engine spray point and then some left over 601 red point I had.
Probably going to redo this before carlisle.
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Posted 11 May 2012 - 06:28 PM
c2-p0mine is gold, han solo style
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Posted 11 May 2012 - 06:37 PM
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Posted 11 May 2012 - 06:56 PM
You can tell who the Star Wars geeks are....
On that side note there is a haynes manual on the Millennium Falcon. Almost bought it....
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