Regular Hondas will come with a black, wrinkled paint finish. Type-Rs come with a lucious red.
A few years ago, I purchased a second valve cover, so I could store my good condition red one, and then painted and installed the spare.
Anyway, I got bored of that one, and decided to sell it and get another to add my personal touch to.
I decided to go with the rarest of B-series DOHC VTEC valve covers. The B16A1.
This cover only came on the 1990-1991 Civic and CRX VTEC models.
Very difficult to get hold of, however I got one. No big deal.
Here it is.
With 'Honda Motor Co.' and the company 'H', it is unique.
However, coming from an old car, with high mileage, there is the potential for it to be caked underneath in horrible, baked-on oil.
Oh dear. As dark as a welfare queue.
As you can see, I've scraped at it with a paint scraper, and it's very thick and horrible.
I'm not prepared to put this on my car with all that crap on the underside.
For this job, my weapons of choice are, my muscles...
...and Mr. Muscle.
Taking a look at the reverse it states:
"Removes burnt on grease..." I like the sound of that.
It says to spray on and leave for a period of time, wicked.
Bukkake time!
I left it for an hour, returned and then sprayed it with a hose.
Before I blasted away the foam, there was horrible brown gunky crap a bit like diarrhea pooling in the corners, the cleanser was really cutting into it.
It has certainly left it's mark, At this point I made a second application, and switched over to a pan scourer and my muscles.
This is the finished result:
I didn't quite manage to get into all the little nooks and crannies, but I'm satisfied now that all the major gunk has been removed.
Next update will cover the stages of painting.
But the lesson here today, people I know have paid good money for acid dips when it comes to this kind of stuff, but all you need are some household cleaning products and some elbow grease.
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