Damn fellas, I dig the under bonnet pics!

 

Thanks man, heres a pic of the valve cover right after I did it, I used a small brush and did the lettering by hand, took me about 2 hours.

 

It wasn't on yet. Took that picture when I was almost done a Cam swap and turbo re-plumbing. Its a compound setup, HX35/40 over S471. If you look closely, you can see I'm recharging the A/C as well.

 

I bet that truck screams I would love to hear it.

 

yea the valve cover looks like crap and the top of my fuel filter looks bad trying to make things look a tad bit better
is the valve cover hard to remove it looks like a tight squeeze between it and the top of the firewall
so would normal spray paint work well or would i have to use the high temp paint i dont want to have to redo this in a month

 

Do high temp paint, or get it powder coated, Im from ohio so mines probably just as bad as yours ha, I havnt had time yet to make mine look pretty. I want performance first.

 

probaly high temp no one around here powder coats and yea i bought the truck 98 with 72,000miles but it came up by chicago so the doors are bad and the underneath the truck was bad im trying to get the body back in good shape before i put some more power to the ol girl all that power wont do any good if the truck is rotting away

 

I palm sanded the letters and center section on mine instead of hand painting them.

 

I didn't use any special paint on mine. They grey is John Deere Construction Charcoal, and the Maroon is Snap-On Cranberry touch up paint for my tool box. The temperatures shouldn't get too high to warrant high temp paint. Mines holding up pretty well so far.

If you crank your speakers, you can hear it in this video:

 

I used 500 high heat I believe it was rustolum or dupli color.

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the cover is pretty tight coming in and out. id atleast get some 500 degree paint, it wont rub off if you spill somthing on it, and will last quite a while. also mine was real bad as you can see in the picture, i pressure washed it really good, then to remove the old paint/clear coat i used paint stripper, and a small wire brush to get in and around the fuel filter bracket/intake grid plenum.