1965 Dodge Dart Charger

va58 said

I would say that the wires and the rest of the accessories were added while the block was still wet. Seeing many original cars over the passed thirty years, i have seen this many times. Also paint on the valve covers after they removed the mask after applying the paint. The paint was still wet and would leave paint marks like strings across the valve covers. Valve covers like hemi covers, not painted ones. Watching your progress, can't wait to see this competed.....

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Thanks for the comments. I'm not sure about the valve covers on the Commando/Charger engines. I have one orginal moter never taken apart. On that engine you can see paintmarks on the valve trail and springs!!! Seems like they sprayed the engine with no valve covers and then added the them. However, I'm not sure about this process.

After glass beading my valve cover tonight it looks like new. The problem is as follows;

I had the valve cover in a bath with some kind of soda in very hot water for 24 hours. After that they rince off the rests with water to neutralize the parts. I have tried to spray the wrinkle finish on this cover as you shood in four layers. BUT, I didn't get the right wrinkle finish. So I stripped it again to see if there was a problem with the old soda.

Or is it a very special process to paint this paint with a not known process?