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well i got finished painting my valve cover and my air condishioning vents today, looks great. at first i didnt know how good i would do but i must admit, i did a pretty damn good job. if i had a camera i would show them, but i dont. i guess this week ill be painting my center thing that holds my cd player or whatever. any advice before i do it?

and since i painted my valve cover all red i was thinking it would be cool to go ahead and paint the HONDA VTEC on it white to make it look somewhat JDM. should i just use the model paint for that as well?

 
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This thread is useless without pics.....

 
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you should use high temp engine paint for the valve cover.

 
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I used Silver Model Paint and it worked real well. The engine paint doesn't stick to plastic real well, I found that out... so be careful with it. I'm gonna re-do mine with model paint, since I know that sticks to plastic real well.

 
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well, if you had actually read the post you would figure out why i didnt have pics.

i used hi temp. paint for the entire valve cover and im gonna use model paint for the letters. should i sand the letters first? or would that **** it up?

 
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If your paint job so far is clean and even, just paint right over it. Might want to just wipe the lettering clean with some alcohol to make sure... but you shouldn't have to sand.