Painted my valve cover

[stefan]

I baked it and it turned out really good. The paint is nice and hard.







The paint is a nice color and has a nice shine. I recommend it!

[GenevaDirt]

Very nice,, isn't this the car that you have been piecing back together?

[packrat427]

That is awesome Stefan .

I will do that Mod soon

[SimonTuffGuy]

i hope you're not planning to bake anything food related out of that oven anytime soon... :\

Looks nice though!

[Hot_Wheels]

i was just going to say that big no no

[25Horseplay]

Your car has to be the most improved Festiva this year!

[GenevaDirt]

^^Agreed....coming along nicely

[skeeters_keeper]

looks very good!

I have a can of the same stuff (duplicolor 1200* paint) in my garage for the past week or so, i'm planing on doing my VC and exhaust header... just not sure if i should bake it in the house, how much did it stink up the house? are you guys serious about not baking any food in there for a while?

if i don't bake it in the house i'll just put it on the car and let the engine heat "bake" it a little, but i'm sure it won't be as good.

[festivaWES]

Yeah...that stuff is toxic......there's even catalysis (spelling) in PC and duplicolor.

[stefan]

Your car has to be the most improved Festiva this year!

You haven't seen anything yet. The body is now 100% straight and im about 1/2 way done the fresh paint job.

And I've almost got all the interior replaced. All im still looking for is seats and door panels. I got the last plastic panels i needed last week. I found some spotless cargo area panels

i hope you're not planning to bake anything food related out of that oven anytime soon... :\

Why do you say that? If your referring to how black the oven is, it was like that before

looks very good!

I have a can of the same stuff (duplicolor 1200* paint) in my garage for the past week or so, i'm planing on doing my VC and exhaust header... just not sure if i should bake it in the house, how much did it stink up the house? are you guys serious about not baking any food in there for a while?

if i don't bake it in the house i'll just put it on the car and let the engine heat "bake" it a little, but i'm sure it won't be as good.

Its not bad at all. I just put it in the oven and turned on the exhaust fan. I also put a fan in the window blowing air out of the house. It smelled a little as it was baking, but you couldn't even smell it in the next room. When it was done, and i opened the oven it smelled kinda bad, but i turned the fan i had in the window to max and within 15 minutes you couldn't even tell i baked it.

I wouldn't really recommend not baking it, the paint is really soft before its cooked. At first i painted it, and wasn't going to bake it, but by the time i got to putting it on the car i had managed to chip it in several places so i wet-sanded those spots down and repainted it and baked it. Additionally, the paint changes color when its baked. At first i was kinda disappointed with the color, it wasn't anything like the color on the cap. But when it cooked the color changed to a nice glossy red.


This is the paint i used, sitting next to my freshly painted doors. Duplicolor high heat red

[Mammabear]

Was something cooking in the oven?

[Hot_Wheels]

ok DO NOT bake that paint in your house hold oven! there are some toxic chemicals as stated above that can make you very sick i would persoanyl clean that oven good and maybe call the manufacturer and ask them what the risk of cooking in that oven again.

[monkeyracing]

Damn Stefan, I thought for a second you'd borrowed the engine pics of my car. Looks great!

Stefan's....


and then mine.....

[SimonTuffGuy]

It's just not a good idea to bake paint in an oven you bake with... I'd suggest getting a spare and keeping it in the garage/basement with lots of vents to keep it "safe"... Just a personal suggestion, take it as you will.

[Mammabear]

Ya or the wife will bake your butt.