Wondering what color to paint the engine and engine bay. I have a viper blue exterior. Any ideas?

 

Here is the engine, 1976 chevy 400...

 

I'd clean it up real good (REAL good) and find a high temp rattle can that matches your exterior and do it in that. As for the engine, you have to determine your overall color scheme prior to that - maybe an aluminum and red combo? That would be set off from the blue nicely.

S.

 

Either Viper Blue, or a satin black would probably look best, IMO. Is that a cue stick holding your tranny up?

 

i agree the blue or black would work..

that is one high quality tranny holding machine!

looks like a pol cue, or maybe just a broom stick..

 

Probably will go with the blue engine bay. Still debating on engine though. Still being hot tanked at the machine shop.

My high tech tranny support system is actually an old flag pole. We have a saying in my garage. "If it's stupid but works, then it isn't stupid."

 

I got my block powdercoated and it looks great ! I just got tiered of the spraypaint fadding away.

 

viper blue engine bay, black engine paint for the motor.

I did my engine bay in flat black and I'm not really too impressed with how it looks. It's good for me because I'm always under the hood, so touch-up is a cinch... but next time it'll get painted along with the car.

 

paint it the same color as exterior, black will look stupid. I did it black then painted it all over pearl to match the exterior looks way better.

 

'Course... a viper blue engine with white "details" would look pretty kick@ss... As long as you get the white powdercoated when and where it's possible, THAT would be a killer look.

S.

 

here is mine: Flat black engine bay with black car chevy orange motor

406 small block, with WC t5 on its way out

 

flippinTHEbird,

Could I see a picture of the exterior?

btw, I love the saying, I'm with it 100%.

 

Here she is. Alot is changing this winter. I'm waiting for my new hood and some other goodies.

 

I just got done painting mine two weeks ago. It came out pretty good. I went out, got a spray gun for $100 to hook up to my compressor, went to my body shop to get color matched paint and a can of clear coat. The paint was $40 for a pint and clear. The hardest part was preping the bay. It took forever but it needed to be done otherwise it would've come out like crap. As for the block, my motor is a crate motor so it came black. I thought about painting it but you really will not see it with all of the computer crap and wires everywhere so i didn't waste my time. If you are going with a carb set up i would say paint it b/c you can see more but i would go black for a clean look. I say paint it the color of your car b/c it may look out of place another color. Good Luck

 

satin black

 

Next time I have my engine out, I think I am going to undercoat the engine bay. We undercoated the entire engine bay on my firends 66 mustang and it turned out nice looking. But the best part: no polishing required!

while you're engine is out, you might want to clean it up and paint it too. Kinda nastly looking...

 

Undercoating is not a good choice for the engine bay.

Everytime the engine runs it generates heat. And after the engine warms up, the undercoating will become a sticky mess that will turn your hands black and stain your clothing if you touch it.

 

Take a few can of black 99cent spray paint and attack your engine bay like a cop at the rodney king beating. belts hoses, wires,air filter paint it all a nice solid runny drippy black. paint runs add performance.