Spray paint for "black textured finish" look?

That stuff looks great. I will find out about the Harley stuff today.

I did a little research today, and as far as the Harley stuff, the paint you would want is called Black Wrinkle Finish. There's a texture finish and a wrinkle finish. The texture finsih is rough kind of like a finer grit sand paper. The wrinkle looks more like what's in those pictures blakthorn posted. I had some laying around in my area and tried it out on a piece of metal. The can had been sitting for a while, and the nozzle was a little clogged so it went on like ****, but came out decent for what I had to work with. I didn't have a camera or anything to take pics. The thicker you spray it on, the heavier the wrinkle finish is. If you spray it on light it's basically just gloss black. It takes a long time to dry, and the finish shows up as it dries, it looks just black when you spray it on. It took probably a good 4 or 5 hours for the finish to start showing up well. I sprayed it on from probably 6-8 inches, I'm not sure what kind of affect it would have holding it closer or farther. You might want to experiment a little first. Like I said before, this paint is used on some engine parts on bikes, so it has no problem with heat. The downside is it's about $20 a can Hope this helps.

Anything, yet? I too am anxiously waiting to find out about the black crinkle paint used on that Dodge valve cover....

jgfiveoh said:

the craftsman and summit powdercoating guns have a black wrinkle finish available also if your looking for something more tough

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dont use those. They are junk. But Powdercoating would be the way to go. To get your covers done it would prolly be 60-80 dollars, if that.

Vht and plasti kote both work great and do just fine with oil and heat when applied as instructed. I had it on my valve covers and intake for 5years and 227,000 miles.

Vedy nice. Black is cool in all variations...

Came out great.