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Rob, it depends on what you want to do. If you want to use a textured paint, its a lot easier. All you have to worry about is filling the 'Corvette' lettering. If you want a glossy finish, its going to be a PITA. You'd be best off to try to get an epoxy paint to coat the painted surface and have a sandable layer to smooth. After that, normal painting protocol.
Just depends on how much time/effort/frustration you're willing to invest.
Be ready to waste a set of FRCs if you're doing it yourself.
Good luck... Byrdman
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Your best bet is to fill in the Corvette lettering, and any other depressions you want to get rid of, with something like Bondo, making sure to overstack the bondo, so it sticks out higher than teh surrounding surfaces. If you cannot find high-temperature bondo, I would suggest that you use a 2-part epoxy, one of those jobs that has the consistency of bondo when its mixed, and they advertise that it can be painted and machined (those epoxies also tend to be a lot more adhesive than bondo). Also, before filling the lettering, you probably want to get some rough sandpaper and scratch the bottom of the lettering, this will give you a pitted surface, that will make it easier for your epoxy to bond to the fuel rail covers (as I recall, they are plastic or composite).
Next, you are going to want to use sandpaper to sand down the excess bondo until you have smooth surfaces. This will require several diferent grades, from rough to smooth.
Once you have your smooth surface, Primer would be good, before you paint them. Someone now has a spray-on primer that you can use on plastics, that allows conventional paints to be used on plastic parts. I would use this is a primer, and then paint the color of your choice.
I think thats all thats really required, but its been a while since I've done any of this, so if there are suggestions, feel free to chime in.
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