Valve covers!!!
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cjvictoria
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cjvictoria
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Well... it's far back just cause the intake is in the front... Unlike most Hondas up until 2000 or so, or whenever the K series motors really took off. Tomorrow I'm gonna get some better pics with a real camera. I didn't wanna do it today cuz it started getting dark once I finished replacing the valve cover gaskets and grommets and shit. I needed to do that stuff cuz the damn spark plug grommet on the far right was leaking a lil bit of oil.
INJEN78
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the sohc is from the ej coupe i just got rid of..gloss black with rainbow flake..
and the dohc is from my current 93 integra..its metalcast blue with the same flake over it..ill have to catch the effect in the sunlight tomorrow..
and ill probably have another up soon because im looking at trading my car for another coupe..the coupe has a red mugen cover..that ill mostlikely be doing burnt orange if i get it..with polished lettering
and the dohc is from my current 93 integra..its metalcast blue with the same flake over it..ill have to catch the effect in the sunlight tomorrow..
and ill probably have another up soon because im looking at trading my car for another coupe..the coupe has a red mugen cover..that ill mostlikely be doing burnt orange if i get it..with polished lettering
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cjvictoria
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Cool do eet! Meanwhile I will be uploading some pics to the Forza 2 thread..
cjvictoria
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I like how the teg vc almost matches the color of the car..
cjvictoria
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Yeh I'm pretty good at it too, but it rains too damn much down here, as I'm sure you have noticed if you ever watch the weather channel.
D16SiHatch
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well lets see. where to start. first off i apologize that some of these i only have in craptastic cell phone quality, but hey nothin i can do bout it now lol. also i wanna note that all the covers i've done i've either paint stripped, primed, and then painted. or if i had access at the time i sandblasted, primed, and then painted. it made for a more consistent good result in the end. anywhoo..
these are the two colors of d16 valve covers i did back when i had my a6/y8.
baller gold lol
then on another vc i did this gloss red
now to the ls valve covers
when i first did the swap i painted it gloss black
then i got bored with it and repainted it sunshine yella, as well as painting the letters black.
much to my g/f's dismay (she loves yellow) i stripped the vc and painted it a metalcast green color. which unfortunately due to the lack of a chrome undercoat, came out looking like crap. that was my mistake, wont let that happen again lol. so instead i found some candy apple red paint at my friends shop and went with that color. although it came out real nice and shiney, it turned out more of a pink color, and i was not particularly thrilled about that lol. here it is anyway
somewhere along the line i picked up another vc, and painted it a gloss blue metallic. it came out real nice, and i liked the color a lot.
if i recall.. i then stripped the candy apple/pink vc, and painted it with the duplicolor mirage 3 part paint kit. i really like how it turned out. has many different colors depending on the angle you view it.
Then as of like 2 weeks ago or so i got another vc from a friend (bringing grand total of ls valve covers to three lol) and decided to paint it as well. i liked the color changing paint a lot, not to mention it was expensive so i didn't want to strip that cover. and i was also fond of the blue metallic cover as well so i decided to leave it as is for now as well. so here is all 3 of them pictured together with the newest vc painted and currently installed on the engine. its rustoleum gloss paint, and the color is sail blue.
these are the two colors of d16 valve covers i did back when i had my a6/y8.
baller gold lol
then on another vc i did this gloss red
now to the ls valve covers
when i first did the swap i painted it gloss black
then i got bored with it and repainted it sunshine yella, as well as painting the letters black.
much to my g/f's dismay (she loves yellow) i stripped the vc and painted it a metalcast green color. which unfortunately due to the lack of a chrome undercoat, came out looking like crap. that was my mistake, wont let that happen again lol. so instead i found some candy apple red paint at my friends shop and went with that color. although it came out real nice and shiney, it turned out more of a pink color, and i was not particularly thrilled about that lol. here it is anyway
somewhere along the line i picked up another vc, and painted it a gloss blue metallic. it came out real nice, and i liked the color a lot.
if i recall.. i then stripped the candy apple/pink vc, and painted it with the duplicolor mirage 3 part paint kit. i really like how it turned out. has many different colors depending on the angle you view it.
Then as of like 2 weeks ago or so i got another vc from a friend (bringing grand total of ls valve covers to three lol) and decided to paint it as well. i liked the color changing paint a lot, not to mention it was expensive so i didn't want to strip that cover. and i was also fond of the blue metallic cover as well so i decided to leave it as is for now as well. so here is all 3 of them pictured together with the newest vc painted and currently installed on the engine. its rustoleum gloss paint, and the color is sail blue.
here is a pic of my dpfi cover and valve cover i painted to match on the d15b2 while it was nice and dirty. right now im in the middle of doing a d16a6 swap and converting to mpfi. then im doing a new valve cover and ill post a pic of it.
Update: i added a pic of what it used to look like under the hood.
Update: i added a pic of what it used to look like under the hood.
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