DEm

Im thinking of painting the engine's plastic cover of my mazda any toughts?
like what brand and kind of paind should I use cause due the hight temp im guessing ill need a special kind of paint, my car is black, and ill like to paint it "red candy apple" color

Roddimus Prime

I would try duplicolor plastic/vinyl paint. They have some pretty good colors. It's about $7/can but I'd invest in a can or two of clear lacquer as well to help keep the color clean.

DEm

Thanks for the tip, cause I own an air compressor and have a paint gun, and i was looking for a "bucket" but after lot of research I came to the conclution that the can its a quieter and easier solution for painting a "small" piece like the engine's cover I think imgonna go with

-2 coats of Dupli-Color® Adhesion Promoter.
-3 coats of Dupli-Color® DH 1608 High Heat Red or chrysler industrail red... depends on the actual color
-3 coats of Dupli-Color® DE 1636 Clear

ill post the pictures when its ready

Roddimus Prime

the dh1608 is an engina enamel. I don't know how I feel about it. I think you should try sticking with the plastic/vinyl paint. It's made specifically to stick to plastic (and the adhesion promoter).

The last thing you want to do is try to strip that all back down and re-do it if it doesn't hold well. Stripping plastic is HARD....chemicals melt it and wire brush gouge it.

DEm

hehehe does anyone has a spare baterry "wind port" ???
I didnt find adesion promoter nowhere i when to 2 autozones and a Wal-mart and ended buying a platic primer at homedepot... has some lawn chairs in the can hehehe... well it worked, no chipping no cracks, no nothing.
Used the primer (white) a black ceramic enamel and a red-orange engine enamel both from Duplicolor (Y) and finally BIG MISTAKE a clear cover... now the piece looks like a cheap chinesse toy... damn... fortunately my techinique was flawless and im confident that if i find some metallic paint (with little metal pieces on it) ill be able to paint over all those coats and fix the damn thing before start sandng and no no pictures :P

firelizard

Don't really need high heat paint for the engine cover. My valve cover is painted with regular base clear and has not burned