Valve Cover I Did.

[The_Chosen_One]

I dont travel much outside the CA section but since this IS the KA section might as well share the love.

I started powder coating about a month ago doing small things for practice and tried my first Valve Cover. This one is a S14 cover with whats called Prismatic Black. I skeptical at first about the color but its what the customer wanted. So after preping it and spraying I must say in Person this color pops in a nice sutle way. Its black from a few feet away, closer you get it looks like metallic black but when light shines on it is when the fun begins.

























Heres a shot I took with a flash. Now the flash exaggerates it A LOT. In regular sun light or indoor light it looks nothing like the camera flash. Im just showing what it looks like.





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[fayceoff]

Looks nice. Personally, I would've polished the lettering and then masked it before doing the color - that would've really made it pop!

[S13xCrazy]

i like it my trim panels inside my coupe are all that metallic black. I think its pretty sweet looking.

[S14toRPS13]

That's really some great work. I'd do without the glitters though. It reminds me of a bass fishing boat.

[480sx]

I would never ever EVER put that on my car. Wild looking though

Anywho, good job with the DIY powedercoating!

[The_Chosen_One]

Looks nice. Personally, I would've polished the lettering and then masked it before doing the color - that would've really made it pop!

Same here I would of liked to of had the letters exposed but hey its what the customer wanted.

I have 2 S13 covers that I'm gonna do with regular black and maybe a candy red or candy orange.

[babowc]

pretty.

black w/ flake and polished letters would've been badder-***.

looks good though.

is it powdercoating?

[sstomek]

good stuff

[The_Chosen_One]

pretty.

is it powdercoating?

Yup.

[Zippy69]

Looks good. I polished mine. Took about three hours, but I like it, but powder coating is probably a better way to go.

[ppctx]

interesting... sports car crossed with a fishing lure.... or is that the other way around? kick arse job at the powder coat, do you have your own oven

[The_Chosen_One]

interesting... sports car crossed with a fishing lure.... or is that the other way around? kick arse job at the powder coat, do you have your own oven

Yup spent about $500 on powder coating equipment, powders, and accesories.

I got done doing a S13 cover in wrinkle black with the letters masked, **** IS HOT thing just pops. I will post pics sunday after work.