hey guys, browsing ebay I ran across the best looking valve cover i have ever seen.... here is the link

does anyone know how to do this... I would love to make mine look like this one

Not to be a smart ass but........









Powder Coated Candy Blue

Cleared with an additive called Firemist Blue.

This adds sparkle and fantastic depth.

The letters were brushed to a shine



The pcv valve was removed and coated in powder coat chrome and cleared then reinstalled

AAHH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

OWNED

Ya, thats pretty good looking...

alright smart ass.... I was talking about the powder coating... how do you powder coat things???

powder paint

good stuff mitsu..... does anyone do powder coating or know someone who does???

I have two valve covers to be done.... one for the DSM and the other for my Can a beer

I have unlimited powder coating availible at work.

What color do you want them?

I read that the first time you posted it. Doesn't mean he wants that exact same color scheme. Thanks again for the helpful post.

I may be wrong here but he did say he wanted it to look like the one he linked to.

yes, I want the DSM one to be in the same color as the blue one on ebay, with the brushed looking letters and everything; basicly like the way mine looks now, except not heat faded like mine is. here is my garage so that you can kinda see what mine looked like with-out all of the heat fade.

and I want the can a beer one to be candy apple red... no letters on the cover to give the brushed look to

mitsu90, can you give me a price and a turn around time???

i'll probably have to do one at a time so that I have one of the cars running while the other is down

my colors are limited....black, grey,yellow,diffrent yellow and green. they were saposta have ordered my a blue, but I guess it never came in.

Yeah...and he wants the other one red. You were a LOT of help.

So I was wrong about the cavi. But I knew what color he wanted for the Mutant.

So can you powder coat if someone can get the powder they want? And what would a fellow dsmer price be for something like that?

There is a place in Bloomington that does powder coating too. I can't think of the name of the place but I think they're on south Veterans; south of Morris ave.

I wish I had a good valve cover

You don't have a valve cover???

I dont have one that doesnt spurt oil all over the place.

Ohhh... at least your in good company, lots of DSMs leak.

Leaking so bad that it looks like I'm fogging for bugs.

so sad, yet so funny...

the place you are thinking of is Associated Sand Blasting. i know alot of people that have taken their wheels and valve covers there for powdercoating. they do good work. if you are doing an odd color like the candy apple blue you may need to buy your own powdercoat (http://www.eastwoodco.com/index.jsp) you will need to buy the chrome reflective undercoat and a translucent overcoat. i think each powder is like $15.

if you just want to do the valve cover in whatever color they are doing it is even cheaper because they can just throw it in with whatever they are baking.

once it is powdercoated you will need to sand off the powdercoat on the lettering and polish them, you can also get a polishing kit from Eastwood.

also check out www.columbiacoatings.com for colors. They have a better selection, IMO. Also, there's a lot of real-world pictures of what colors and finishes look like.

There is also a place called Powder Coatings Unlimited (136 Greenwood Ave, Bloomington, IL 61704 | Phone: (309) 820-1444) that is on South Veterans. Have never heard anything about them but they have a pretty nice building.

think again......get the color book

the third shift supervisor has it

yeah the color book I ordered a blue 3 months ago