Keeping The Wife Angry

[CarMichael Angelo]

Great News! This will be the second instance where I found a rattle can paint altenative to powder coating....the first occasion being the wrinkle finish painted on the valve covers, and now the second, being the C.O.P. covers. I haven't seen this before w/ all the spray paint products I have in my cabinet, so I assume that this must be a recent thing the mfg's have been able to accomplish.

There is one small problem w/ this new innovation however,...and it's the same reason for the thread title,..........

You got to bake it @ 200 degrees in the oven........
You should smell this place

 

[MikeH686]

Mike you really gotta get the wife to clean that oven holy crapola man!

 

[jetmech807]

Quick, bake some cookies while the fumes are fresh. Mmmmmm.....homemade chemical flavored cookies.

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[MikeH686]

Wait you never said what the stuff was called it looks great whatever it is

 

[CarMichael Angelo]

Mike you really gotta get the wife to clean that oven holy crapola man!

Actually,..its' an old oven I keep in a corner of the garage just for junk like this,...she'd never actually let me use her real oven......Old appliances make great future auto shop ovens. Who cares if the burners on top don't work anymore? AND while I get away w/ alot of junk,....putting painted stuff in the (real) kitchen oven, would fly like a brick.

Wait you never said what the stuff was called it looks great whatever it is

VHT engine enamel..... they're the ones making this stuff in several colors now it seems....Advance auto supply is where I got mine.

 

[MikeH686]

Actually,..its' an old oven I keep in a corner of the garage just for junk like this,...she'd never actually let me use her real oven......Old appliances make great future auto shop ovens. Who cares if the burners on top don't work anymore? AND while I get away w/ alot of junk,....putting painted stuff in the (real) kitchen oven, would fly like a brick.



VHT engine enamel..... they're the ones making this stuff in several colors now it seems....Advance auto supply is where I got mine.

Fly like a brick just remember to duck when she throws it at you and that looks damn good for being rattle canned

 

[CarMichael Angelo]

Fly like a brick just remember to duck when she throws it at you and that looks damn good for being rattle canned

Thanks,..I was actually planning on stripping them and polishing them since they're aluminum,.....but after 3 hours they still looked like s hit,...so I bailed on that plan, and painted them.

 

[MikeH686]

Yeah its a pain polishing aluminum I used to do that on my dirt bikes before a race and they were already semi polished I could only imagine how bad it would be to do straight no finish aluminum

 

[hoopty5.0]

You'll have to excuse me, but to my half-functional eyes, that looks like the color is gold. Please tell me Im wrong.

Gold or not, it do look reeeaaaal niiiice.

 

[NIKwoaC]

I didn't think you had to bake engine enamel...?

 

[CarMichael Angelo]

You'll have to excuse me, but to my half-functional eyes, that looks like the color is gold. Please tell me Im wrong.

Gold or not, it do look reeeaaaal niiiice.

It IS gold as a matter of fact......If I would've found it earlier when the engine was out, there'd be alot more of the color on a whole bunch of other things. If/when I pull the Blower back off for porting,...it'll also get the treatment.
Remember,...yellow car. Not too many other colors go w/ to compliment the engine bay color besides black and silver and body color............and I'm not painting anything on the engine silver, or yellow.

I didn't think you had to bake engine enamel...?

Whatever the formulation,...it's part of the instructions that stipulate that the paint will not have the durability or chemical resistance until that part of the process is complete. 1 hr @ 200 degrees can also be accomplished on the engine while running,...but I got this old oven down here anyway, so.............

 

[95BlueStallion]

but I got this old oven down here anyway, so.............

Exactly the thinking that made me post above about that little pulley of yours. Where is it sitting again?

 

[CarMichael Angelo]

Exactly the thinking that made me post above about that little pulley of yours. Where is it sitting again?

The pulley?.... it's in a drawer in my toolbox,... Don't look for me to apply thesame logic as baking painted junk in an oven though,... I don't have to have anything "tuned" after I paint it.

 

[TBrannon91]

Would you care to post a picture after its baked?

 

[Bryan83taco]

If you already have a spare oven in the garage why don't you just drop $150 for the Eastwood powder coating kit? That's what I did, so easy a cave man can do it. And get great results too. Need a compressor too but every man should have one any ways.

 

[CarMichael Angelo]

Would you care to post a picture after its baked?

There's really nothing to see actually,...just looks like satin finish paint that you can wipe lacquer thinner on.

If you already have a spare oven in the garage why don't you just drop $150 for the Eastwood powder coating kit? That's what I did, so easy a cave man can do it. And get great results too. Need a compressor too but every man should have one any ways.

I've only had the oven down there for a month,....and now I'm into the nickle and dime stuff that ends up costing a grand to get a car running,...So while it's cheap enough to start using that powder coating equipment ( and I do have a great compressor) the 150.00 is spoken for several times over.