Hey guys, my s2k busted a fuel line a few weeks ago and sprayed gas all over my valve cover which made most of the paint flake off so i'm looking to get it powdercoated. I've been looking all weekend and pretty much have it narrowed down to the j's racing valve cover, candy apple red, or I could save a couple hundred bucks and repaint it wrinkle red myself. What do you guys think? Pictures for reference:

J's:




Candy apple:




OEM (very similar to my current setup):

 

Repaint it wrinkle red yourself. I've seen a few valvecovers get powder coated and a ton of grit filled the internals of the valvecover from the bead blasting/sand blasting process , every bolt hole was filled with grit as well. It was terrible. If you get yours powder coated you have to make sure that the shop doesn't get the internals of the cover filled with grit.

 

Thanks man, I'm leaning more towards staying oem for now and trying to find a good deal on a used one but if I have it powder coated I'll make sure it's chemically stripped and not sandblasted

 

Can't go wrong with wrinkle red or even black. If you have time on your hands, you can try to polish it.

 

Just get it powder-coated I've done ever color in the rainbow over the years.

 

I had mine powder coated and I love it. This was Lollipop Red by Prismatic Powders. The guy I used only charged me $120 total. $100 for the valve cover and $20 for the spark plug cover.

VC8 by gccgoalie33, on Flickr

VC9 by gccgoalie33, on Flickr


My friend loved mine so much that I had one done for him in teal.


VC12 by gccgoalie33, on Flickr

VC13 by gccgoalie33, on Flickr

 

If you're the guy who was selling the red one recently I was going to buy your cover but I sold before I saw it lol.

 

No sir, that wasn't me selling. The red one in my pics is my original VC. The teal is was an extra VC I bought and wound up having it powder coated for a friend.

 

Dang, well do you mind if I ask what the paint code was for the spark plug cover? Because i'm definitely having that powder coated and I love the color of yours

 

The spark plug cover was powder coated wrinkle black and then the letters were polished.