Anyone repainted their M50 valve cover? Black or Silver? Got pix?

[535ise]

The black wrinkle cover looks pretty cool...shades of Ferrrari :-)
Here is my valve cover since you asked for a pic in silver:
M-30 Valve Cover in Aluminum color:

HTH,
George

Thats one super clean engine bay George !

I could do with painting my themostat housing and a lot more besides to get my bay half as good as yours.

I need to get some nice alloy looking paint for those E28 M5 TB's i'm going to fit and replace a lot of nuts and bolts to freshen it up.

Andy

[Interceptor]

Here is my valve cover since you asked for a pic in silver:
M-30 Valve Cover in Aluminum color:

Whoa, dude! That looks cleaner and neater than most of the new cars!

Regards

[Mr Project]

I really like that wrinkle paint!

And George, the paint looks great, but it's the whole package that makes it amazing. Even the plastic looks new!

[wengenstein]

Wow...I was thinking about doing something this myself but figured it was too ambitious of a project. It doesn't sound so bad afterall

All you did was strip it, clean it, and paint it? What kind of stripper and paint would you recommend? And what did you do about the BMW logo, sand/grind off the paint?

And has anyone ever seen anything fancy done with the big plastic M60 engine cover?

I painted my M30 rocker cover with some VHT wrinkle paint.

It has a nice textured finish though if i were to do it again i'd use only 2-3 coats rather than the 4-5 coats i did on mine to give a better finish.

I used brake cleaner and some paint stripper to remove all traces of that yellow cosmoline stuf.

I used no primer.The VHT paint is easy to aply with no runs even though i was putting it on thickley.

The only down side to this paint is it takes at least 48 hours to cure,but this might be speeded up with some heat.

Please excuse my engine bay as it is a mess and the intake/air filter is going to be changed soon !





HTH

Andy

[George M]

Thanks Guys,
Only reason I rolled the pics out a second time is Rob wanted to see what a silver cover looks like. Yeah the engine looks much better than new without the ugly Cosmoline and freshly painted components. Mr. P reason the plastic looks new is I repainted all the plastic too :-)...including air box...with a factory correct low gloss heat temp black. Cosmoline can not be effectively removed from plastic pieces without changing the surface integrity...hence the repaint. My car only gets driven once in a while on nice days so the engine stays as clean as shown. Reason it is so clean is I detailed every part when I rebuilt the top end the winter before last....took my time and enjoyed the process. Initially I painted the valve cover a bright red but upon reflection wanted a monochrome theme since the car exterior is Sterling Silber...so stripped and repainted the cover with the Aluminum color you see and while in there installed Don Gale's great banjo bolt safety wire kit....thanks again Don my evil twin.
Now the color theme throughout the car is silver and black...set off with the burlwood
trimmed interior.
George

[wengenstein]

I agree, it looks great.. I think I'm going to call my local BMW salvage yard and see if I can get ahold of a set of valve covers to experiment on

Thanks Guys,
Only reason I rolled the pics out a second time is Rob wanted to see what a silver cover looks like. Yeah the engine looks much better than new without the ugly Cosmoline and freshly painted components. Mr. P reason the plastic looks new is I repainted all the plastic too :-)...including air box...with a factory correct low gloss heat temp black. Cosmoline can not be effectively removed from plastic pieces without changing the surface integrity...hence the repaint. My car only gets driven once in a while on nice days so the engine stays as clean as shown. Reason it is so clean is I detailed every part when I rebuilt the top end the winter before last....took my time and enjoyed the process. Initially I painted the valve cover a bright red but upon reflection wanted a monochrome theme since the car exterior is Sterling Silber...so stripped and repainted the cover with the Aluminum color you see and while in there installed Don Gale's great banjo bolt safety wire kit....thanks again Don my evil twin.
Now the color theme throughout the car is silver and black...set off with the burlwood
trimmed interior.
George