Thread: Triing to figure out a way to make my engine bay look better

I was thinking of doing most of the plastic stuff with the same color of my car and most of the metal brackets and such aluminum powder coat

Im not dead set on this just thinking out loud any suggestions

organize everything. dont go overboard with painting things. after so much it begins to look very gawdy.

yes, keep it subtle. keep it 2 colors max. since your car is green, i would stick with black/silver/same color green as your car. or, do stuff polished/chromed. I would not paint anything plastic, and u cannot powdercoat plastic parts just do the metal things.

heres an example of mine. My car is silver, with chrome exhaust tips, polished wheels, and red calipers. the colors of my engine bay are mostly red/black/silver.

Yea i reworked all my vacuum lines that i had all rigged after my build and added a t for a boost gauge
I was just thinking dogbones,Side suport bars,stb, and maybe the egr bracket in aluminum
and the fuse box,the front plastic peice where the hood latch is and a couple small things colored to match the car

I definatly want to reroute my plug wires It just looks so messy my other car engine bays look better/cleaner

I was also thinking silver on the grills but i dont really know yet

i would say if you did that front hood latch plastic piece in a bright silver, and did everything else in silver or aluminum, that would look cool. Just keep stuff matching, and dont go overboard. I would just paint the supercharger, dogbones, and crossbraces, but thats just me. The older i get, the more i like things stock and subtle.

this is the way she looks now. I really dont miss all of my old stuff on there

I definatly want to reroute my plug wires It just looks so messy my other car engine bays look better/cleaner

x2, i was going to say something lol

Originally Posted by silverstreak

First thing I would do is reroute the 3 back plug wires under the s/c snout.

Yea when we got the engine in i just wanted it running so every thing went on fast

Ill work on it all tomorow Maybe get some paint and start

i love that bronze looking color on your dogbones looks really good against the green

Yea the rusty color is growin on me when i did my build i blasted them and hit them on a wire wheel ANd the were set aside to clearcoat but it didnt happen And they started rusting like a week later

haha no way...and to think my rust looks like sh!t

Rerouted the wires that helped alot Then it started raining so looks like ill wait a week to do any more

I found a can of engine enamel i had from my build so figured why not paint some peices I have only done the side supports so far might do either the dogbones or the brackets later
starting to look better

ok so decided to do the dog bones aswell cause they looked like crap anyway
Im pretty sure im going to do the same to the strut tower bar that im installing today
heres the progression

ive got the same green.. im thinking i wanna do like a gunmetal grey for my stuff.. i dont want bright silver, i want a darker one that compliments the metallic green.

yea i thought bought that but at the same time I wanted to try this and it was basically free

Im still going to check into powder coating The dyno shop does powder coating so im gonna get a quote on doin a few peices and check out there colors

Strut tower brace in and painted + I rerouted a few vac lines and my amp power and ziptied a few things so it looks a lot cleaner now

you know what looks good on the 98 green? purple. im not lying, had some on my car.