Reply to "Coat polished alluminum valve covers?"

Larry's right on all points. On my black car I have uncoated FI and everything else uncoated, and it shines much better than clear coat on top when comparing to ones I have seen clear coated. Clear coat gives a very nice satin clear appearance though. However, without the coat, you have to polish and polish every so often like Larry says, and for me that means by hand on all the parts, very tedious if you have lots of places to polish that are hard to get to. If you don't have a bad back now, you will later. I have often come out of my engine bay with numb legs from sitting in there for hours. So, there are plus and minus depending what you want or how much pain you want to endure.