buddiiee
10-20-2006, 10:42 PM
Ok, I was milling about underneath my hood, straightening some things out on my car, and decided since im doing valve springs anyways, why not just yank the covers now, and clean em. Well I put them under some really hot water to warm em up, soaked em with eagle ones spray foam wheel cleaner (that stuff cleans ANYTHING, works awesome) and they cleaned up nicely, but not anywhere NEAR how good my plenum looks.. My valve covers are stained with grease and oil stains. Looks like bloody hell. Now that theyre clean, the stains stand out even worse, and are about as obvious like someone took a crap on a brand new white bedsheet.
So I took em over a friends house to sand blast em, and while they came out ok, the really deep oil stains are still there. Im to the point to say '****it' and just mount em. Well, theyre soo rough, they collect and hold EVERY little piece of dirt that brushes across them. From dirty fingerprints, to EVERYTHING in between. And the finish is soo rough, they stick there. Ya cant wash the prints off now. So I clear coated one of them with clear lacquer. First question. Is there any 'high heat' clear coat in a can out there? Second, will lacquer hold up on valve covers ok? and finally, has anyone ever 'hot tanked' a set of covers before? How do they turn out? Is it expensive?
So I took em over a friends house to sand blast em, and while they came out ok, the really deep oil stains are still there. Im to the point to say '****it' and just mount em. Well, theyre soo rough, they collect and hold EVERY little piece of dirt that brushes across them. From dirty fingerprints, to EVERYTHING in between. And the finish is soo rough, they stick there. Ya cant wash the prints off now. So I clear coated one of them with clear lacquer. First question. Is there any 'high heat' clear coat in a can out there? Second, will lacquer hold up on valve covers ok? and finally, has anyone ever 'hot tanked' a set of covers before? How do they turn out? Is it expensive?