Ok so I've done something tonight while the chicken was on the braai. I want to make the plug wire cover smooth so that you don't see the Toyota lettering, not that I mind that, it's just more inconspicuous if Toyota isn't blaring of the top of the motor...

Cover before doing anything, still good condition, so it'll polish right up.



After a bunch of sanding with a rotary disk in the drill and a good old sander.



I was worried about the lettering coming out properly, sometimes when you sand something like this away the letters will just keep popping out. Ask anyone who sprays cars. So I thought I'd spray it black since that always shows any inconsistencies immediately. Look smooth enoug. Only thing that happened, I didn't know the Toyota badge is actually a loose badge that's melted in with four prongs. The one fell out of it's hole, will just plug it up with some filler.



Close up, this is still just a rough finish, used 100 grit in the sander. Letters don't show at all though, so it worked perfectly. Will smooth it out with some 300 and then 1000 or so. Will then go drop this and the other two timing covers off at Jackie's to be sprayed the same blue the car is.