i just painted my spare valve cover wrinkel red .. it looks awesome but i used chapstick on the letters, and some of it go onto the cover and off the leters .. so around the "honda" its a little chipped, whats the best route to take to keep the honda unpainted?

 

paint the whole valave cover, letters and all. after it has dried, block sand the letters. it will work because the letters are raised off the valve cover.

 

i guess i'll try that .. last time i sanded i [freak]ed up the rest of my valve cover b/c for soem reason it rubbed off the letters and onto the cover

 

tape the letters off and use a razor blade to cut tape in letter form.

 

The best way to do it is to paint the whole thing then sand it. There is a thread on here, just recently in this forum, where a guy showed how to do it on a green valve cover.

 

its bakin in the oven now .. i'm gunna sande off the letters when i'm done, what grit should i use?

 

dremel with sanding bit works for me

 

just tape the areas around the lettering to protect them. Come on, this isn't rocket science here.

 

Heard you can use chap-stick on the letters...But i tried and didn't work that well.

 

chapstick didnt work good for me either, taping the leters seems really hard to do .. i tried but it just seemed real hard to cut out all the little pieces

i painted over them and sanded them down ... it worked but i still got a few scuff marks on the valve cover

 

You gotta use a block!

 

Vasoline will help. Paint, resin, etc...doesn't stick to vasoline. You will still have to sand a little.

 

You could of used a little laquer thinner on a rag before you threw on some clear. Simple and easy, just dont put too much on the rag

 

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i did .. but it still hit some of the valve cover

its alrite tho .. i'm not repaintin it .. but the red wrinkle came out beatiful

 

Whats a good brand to paint the valve cover with, and what should i do as far as prepping it for paint. i guess just clean it up maybe polish it? I wasn't sure if the paint would stick of it was polished.

 

i always just use a paste style wax like turle wax or something on the raised letters paint let dry wipe away i have done it several times with no probs

 

i block sand, very carefully

 

i'm going to be painting mine soon, i might try igodwn's paste wax method with the letters on the valve cover.

as far as prepping goes, how do you guys get the best finish?