Wondeing if anyone knows a good place to purchase colored valve covers for my 96 accord? dont really care about price, but looking for a red cover.

thanks

cj

 

www.tasauto.com

 

how hard would it be to paint ours?

 

iw as also wondering how hard it would be to paint one.

 

WOW thanks a ton live2rice!!! Those candy painted covers are sweet@!! thanks again.

 

its not very hard to paint your own, as long as you clean them up real nice before hand it will come out ok, but it will be no where near as good looking as those powder coated ones.

 

thank i think im gonna buy one of the candy painted ones off of tasauto.com. THanks

Cj

 

it's typically easier to just buy one but if you are really curious just call around to a few powder coating shops and ask some price quotes, or get some high temp spray paint and do it yourself...

 

I painted my '94 Vtec valve cover a dark metallic blue and it looks great (and cost about $8 in spray paint, but took a while to sand down).

Here's some tips:
Use a hand electric sander for the large surfaces and a dremel sander for the smaller ones. This is the worst part about doing it yourself.
Put on a base coat in white. I didn't do this and I could see all my sanding markings straight through my blue metallic paint at first. I had to put down a base coat and redo.
Dry sanding and painting the screws for the valve cover something to match (I painted mine light metallic grey for contrast).
Allow to dry, put on, and enjoy! I wish I had a pic to show. I also painted my heat shield the same grey (high heat spraypaint)and they look great together.