well since there is no automobile forum, i'll post here!
as some of you know im rebuilding an engine to drop in a crx...well im waiting for parts to come and i have no car yet, so i cant really do anything with it atm and i got bored. so yesterday i decided to paint the valve cover
after a small test to see if paint stripper would work...the front of the cover was peeling already, we stripped the top a little just to see if it'd work, looks like crap
this is after stripping
after i stripped it i was trying to decide between attempting to polish the honda emblems or just shave them off...since i had nothing better to do yesterday, i opted to polish. after three hours, this is what it looked like
and here is the almost final product, set it outside under the sun so it'll dry and then i'll clean up around the honda emblems where the paint looks kinda bad
im fairly happy with the result, i think i didnt do enough coats of paint though. from pics i saw online from people that did it, it didnt look as wrinkly as mine does, but more of bumpy type thing, like what the stock valve cover has on it. but it looks 10x better than what it did