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Just regular Lacquer with a plastic adheasion promotor/ primer. Painted my covers Jet Stream Blue on my former 2008 and never had a paint vs heat problem with them in 6 years. Here is a pic after about 5 years.
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Couldn't resist. I have a '14 AW Z51 M7 and in the process of having my fuel rail covers and plenum cover airbrushed by a local shop. Hope to have photos of the completed pieces soon. These are complete smoothies (Corvette lettering removed) and painted AW with a version of Showstoppers Stingray Z51 image (had to change it a little) and the plenum is Carbon Flash with somewhat of a ghosted C7 Flag image. I'm not into a lot of flash but, thought these pieces really help set off the engine compartment.
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Great job on the FRCs and best of all, you did it yourself and at a really good price. 
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If so, what type of applicator did you use?
Did you apply a clear coat?
Perhaps you can educate us on your process.
Nice job. Looks very professional, and I do like the original texture to the fuel rails.
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Thanks, Yes I wanted to keep the texture as well, I first washed the panels in Dawn. Once dry I applied a thin coat of plastic adhesion promotor. Then a thin coat of white primer. Then about two coats of GM arctic white base coat. Once dry I applied two coats of clear after doing the Corvette lettering. The lettering was done with a felt tip paint pen. Before doing this I painted the silver aluminum fish carbon flash color to match the rest of them on the car. The Stingrays were only $9 for the pair on eBay from a China seller. I also put a few drops of crazy glue gel on the double sided tape on the fish just in case the Chinese sticky tape decided to let go in the heat.
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Thanks, Yes I wanted to keep the texture as well, I first washed the panels in Dawn. Once dry I applied a thin coat of plastic adhesion promotor. Then a thin coat of white primer. Then about two coats of GM arctic white base coat. Once dry I applied two coats of clear after doing the Corvette lettering. The lettering was done with a felt tip paint pen. Before doing this I painted the silver aluminum fish carbon flash color to match the rest of them on the car. The Stingrays were only $9 for the pair on eBay from a China seller. I also put a few drops of crazy glue gel on the double sided tape on the fish just in case the Chinese sticky tape decided to let go in the heat.
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