Painted Intake Covers - Prequel to Previous Post

Nice jobs! Engine likes being clean. What paint did you use, and how did you go back and remove the paint down to the metal in ‘Porsche’?

Thanks! I used VHT's SP206 Blue Wrinkle, which is a much brighter blue than what you see in the last two pictures. The earlier pictures, without the lettering done, are a bit overexposed so are brighter than what you'd see out of the can, but closer to the paint's natural color. The lettering took several attempts to get a decent result and the final overall look was really a happy accident. Initially, I tried laying in some thicker black sign paint with a syringe, which I'd read about elsewhere. I just wasn't getting the crisp result I wanted, so decided to wipe it off and ended up with the black paint spreading across the cover and settling into the wrinkles. After some initial panic, I thought it looked pretty good, applied more and wiped/scrubbed until I got the look I wanted. I was going to give up on coloring the letters until one day I just tried a black Sharpie and it worked well enough. With my clear cover, it definitely adds some pop to an otherwise ho-hum looking engine.