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Be Careful "Soaking" your cowl in thinner. You may find the cowl melted if the fiberglass reacts with the laquer thinner.

From my recent experience I can tell you automotive type paint, PPG, cleans up with Laquer Thinner but once it has hardened it is hardly affected. While painting my wheel pants I made the mistake of using a "Hobby Syringe" as the method of taking the paint out of the can in a measured amount. The type of syringes I was using was the "Mono-jet" brand purchased from Tower Hobbies. While good syringes they do have one flaw making them less than desirable for paint use. The syringe has oil on the rubber part of the plunger. I discovered this after making my first attempt at painting the white on my cowl. The result was about 300 fisheyes. I let the paint cure and sanded for several hours the next day to get it off.

Lesson: Do not use hobby style syringes to measure paint unless you like sanding.

I guess you could clean the syringe off but after destroying my first attempt I just use Epoxy Measuring Cups.

Here are the results of painting the wheel pants with the Metallic Plum (PPG Concept Ordered from Radio South). The picture does no justice to the shine off the paint. Not even clear coated. In the picture there appears to be a flaw towards the front but that is just a reflection.

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