Show us your valve covers - pics plz

[Cave]

Just curious.  Painted, chromed, custom, ... whatever.  8)

[WFRFitness]

Polished by hand, the only way to go  ;D

[HDGoose]

stock...washed occasionally.

[twhitaker]

[LeRoy]

A little high-temp silver-aluminum paint and a bit of work with a tiny brush and steady hand...

[JJ]

Just plain polished aluminum....with black paint accent. :)

[Stormtruck2]

"SLAP" Not on a first date!!!! :D

[rodekyll]

Here's what I did to some wreck-damaged covers:











And then there's these:

[Dean Rose]

Dean

[jcbooghs]

[Kev m]

Powdercoated black years ago...

[Guzziscoot]

[Larry]

2001 Stone - Soda Blasted then lotsa elbow grease

[T-3Dave]

Sandblasted, small oval polished, black letters:

[OilLeaker]

Man, I've been going nuts trying to relocate a pic that I had saved a few years ago (then lost in a hard drive crash) of Guzzi valve covers with glass view ports installed.  You probably wouldn't see much with oil flying around and all, but I thought it was a pretty neat idea!

Anybody here got it?

[c_galardi]

[TDF]

Powder Coated black for me.  Along with a few other pieces.

TDF

[MG_Rocket]

Oh my . . .   it's not my cup of tea, but hey, why not  ?

[Cave]

Cup o' tea or not, this is a great example, along with many others on this thread of... HOW did you do it???  What material, technique, etc.

[guzzimike]

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[NC Steve]

Valve covers? Stock.
Valve cover guards? Joe Kenny.
He uses this top pic to promote his work on Ebay, btw.

[IceBlue]

[twhitaker]

Cup o' tea or not, this is a great example, along with many others on this thread of... HOW did you do it???  What material, technique, etc.

I sent them to a shop that preps HD parts for chrome. They polished them and then had 'em copper plated and then nickel plated. The covers were sent to another shop for gold plating. FWIW, there's gold on the inside too.

[IceBlue]

Must have cost you a zillion $$$   :o

[twhitaker]

Must have cost you a zillion $$$   :o

Actually, no. The prep on the valve covers and the alternator cover cost $250 and the gold on those parts as well as the 2 plastic chrome rear frame rail covers cost another $300. This was 11 years ago

[Lemans_AL]

[sign216]

Man, I've been going nuts trying to relocate a pic that I had saved a few years ago (then lost in a hard drive crash) of Guzzi valve covers with glass view ports installed.  You probably wouldn't see much with oil flying around and all, but I thought it was a pretty neat idea!

Anybody here got it?

A great idea.  Yea, you might not see much when the engine is running (unless there's an oil flow problem, so you see too much), but it's still a novelty.

[sign216]

I like the blue accents on the bolt heads.  How did you do it?

[oldmanjob]

I love the natural look :o :D ;D ;-T :BEER:

[Lemans_AL]

I love the natural look :o :D ;D ;-T :BEER:

Took a lot of hard work, to get the 'antiquing' just right  :D :BEER: