Several years ago I painted the IMRC cover on my V6. I started out masking off the silver "DURATEC" letters but that was very hard so I ended up coating the letters lightly with Vaseline.
I sprayed the entire cover and then just scraped off the paint from the surface of the lettering after it was dry. With the Vaseline undercoat it came off pretty easily. Then I used a toothpick dipped in paint to touch up corners around the letters where the paint didn't stick.
