What color should I paint my engine bay

[OmarM]

I am 99% sure I will be pulling my motor out either this friday morning or for sure this weekend.

After that I am planning on stripping the engine bay to bare necessities.

Just wondering should I just clean it all out and leave it the factory color or should I coat the bottom from rails down with black undercoating and then high gloss coat the rest. The car is burgundy red.

Also what color should I get my valve covers powdercoated. I want something crazy. I plan on painting the iron block something crazy as well, just so the motor stands out in the sea of black.

Maybe camo green or a type of green for block and valve covers. what do you think?

[tyrannix]

safety neon lime green

(and i would never paint anything camoflague.... i see enough of it at work. And you would need a mullet to paint a civilian vehicle camo

[rico05]

Hmmm. Gloss white ot gloss black for the bay would set off any colors you do for the rest of the motor well.

I have a white car, so that is my fav. As for valve covers, I just painted mine pink, and if I were to paint my block, it would be gloss black. My timing covers just got a shot of matte black, and my manifold heat shield is drying as we speak with a fresh coat of gloss black (Duplicolor engine paint with ceramic, ftw!).

Keep it simple, and that will look the best.

[teddy]

Dude..I love camo. I would not paint the block or engine bay camo though. It'd be interesting to see the valve covers in that white/grey camo though. Or just a solid pearl white. I love white valve covers.

I would just stick with black or silver for the block, and for the engine bay, if you're feeling crazy, maybe laguna seca blue. A guy from my hometown did this to his s13. Came out looking pretty nice. Here's a pic

[NeedCAforS13]

do the engine bay battleship gray. if you do it black you won't be able to tell if anything is leaking (which I guess might be a good thing, lol)

[DjLiquid]

damn teddy, that engine bay looks like mine. I painted mine Bayside (or Skyline) Blue

[OmarM]

do the engine bay battleship gray. if you do it black you won't be able to tell if anything is leaking (which I guess might be a good thing, lol)

i like this idea for color, i guess i will have to see what happens.

[nnkfws333]

if you dont care and just want something better then crud flat black! hah we did it on my engine bay