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Mine went a week or so without them...just cover them up with some shop towels.

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A pic. of mine . Coil covers and coil pk mounting brackets are in fabrication now .

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Sale pending.

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I like the look of the red valve covers, it really offsets the other colors great. I was thinking about doing a different color,or polishing them. Now I'm thinking red would look great on my White Mach.

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You guys with Powder Coated Valve Covers, are they hard to keep clean.

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good ques!

I would say they are easy 2 keep clean... but may show more dirt..

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mine are the frpp ones with the texture finish and they arent bad to clean. I actually find they hide dirt better. The stock ones would show dirt big time even the littlest of dirt. these look good all the time and the dirt just wipes right off when the covers are cooled off

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What do you use? Mine still look great. Only afew thousand miles with them on, but I'd like to know what works to clean them well, and not scratch any of the paint off.

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I would say keep up with it by a microfiber and quick detailer...

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thats it right there but only after they are cooled off

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Can someone tell me where and how they did the power coating? Did you take it to a garage or do it yourself as in installing them?

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Local body shop . Just call around .

Easy to install , you can defenitely do it yourself .

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Just finished mine, Bright aluminum powder coat, and I painted the coil covers with red caliper paint and high temp clear. Still trying to decide if I like the coil covers, but they are easy to change.
Jeff

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While I was installing the procharger.....its a lil messy under there.
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How hard was it to remove the valve covers? I really like the powder coated look. I have a red Mach and would like to do mine red and at sometime do the front cam cover. The color under the hood really looks sharp! Thanks for sharing all the pic's.

LS

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I had mine powdercoated 2 years ago and they still look great. The passenger side is no problem, the drivers side is a PITA. I had to remove the m/c to get enough clearance to remove. Had them off about a week while waiting on the powdercoating. I have probably gotten more compliments on them than any other visual mod.

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Best under hood mod!

Driver side is PITA like every one says...gotta take off the m/c...and the lines are a pita to get back on tho...but man...is it ever worth it!

Now i wax em when i do my car...lol

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I cant believe I didnt post finished results in here. I did have some of the parts painted at the local body shop. The hood shroud and the rear firewall cover were both sanded and painted the body color to match. It really fits in nicely I think

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...1178498887.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5...1178498878.jpg

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Those look awesome. I want to do that with mine now too! Especially after buying the powered by ford coil covers. the coil covers look too nice for the '04 valve covers, but if i did up the valve covers, the coil covers would then look nice on top of them. Thanks for the pics.

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Back from the dead!

I have a spare set of valve covers that I plan on sanding down and getting powdercoated or painted. I called a few places and a couple said that they cannot match the color of the car, and only offer "Red", "Blue", "Green", etc...just normal colors.

That's with powdercoating. Is it safe to just paint them?

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Back in the day I painted my gt40 intake the same color of my car and used
the same paint that I had left over then cleared it I would think you could
do the same with the valve covers.

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I painted mine with regular sherwin williams base/clear. They are holding up great.


http://home.comcast.net/~larrendeuce/Finished%20vc.JPG

http://home.comcast.net/~larrendeuce/P4290032.JPG

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Nice pictures! When you say that you painted it, did you just order your factory paint in a rattle can from somewhere like PaintScratch.com, or something?

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I went to the bodyshop supply store near me and bought 1 pint self etching primer, 1 pint Ford color CX, 1/2 pint black, and 1 pint clear along with all the activators and reducers required. I sprayed with an HVLP gravity feed gun attached to a 30 gallon compressor.

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A little off topic, but I am noticing that the air tube for the shaker is painted/different material. What is going on??

I would like to make mine a little different as well, any pointers??

~J