Under The Hood Color

Alright, I am soon gonna be starting working under the hood, painting different applications, like my valve cover, and my intake tube. Putting new wires on (colored) and replacing other small applications with bright and shinney new ones. So I need your opinion. Thanks

By the way, my car is red.


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Did I miss something or since when did the color under the hood matter. My civic is blue cause its the factory hood ... and my old MG which needed a new hood I got one primered black, so we painted the top the same color as the car, and coated the underside with some shit so it wouldnt rust.

You can see the underside of the hood in the top part of the pic
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Originally posted by Melt
Did I miss something or since when did the color under the hood matter. My civic is blue cause its the factory hood ... and my old MG which needed a new hood I got one primered black, so we painted the top the same color as the car, and coated the underside with some shit so it wouldnt rust.
I think he means stuff under the hood....valve cover, hoses, etc.

No no no. Im not talking about the hood itself, or the engine bay. Im talking about the valve cover, wires, spark plug covers, and other caps that can be changed, what not and so on.

Thanks mighty, you beat me to it

And dont worry melt, everyone has their bad days;)

oh aight then ... cause I was really thinking why the hell is he repainting the underside of his hood :confused:

But anyways, while im not a fan of doing that dress up shit (hell I dont even wash my engine), I voted red cause it matches your car.

And yea, im kinda full of it today, I cant quite figure out what my story is.

Be oringinal yo! Im goin green I think... Green vlave cover and blue with everything els... Im gonna powder coat the valve cover since the one I was gonna buy that was all chromed out was for an A1 :rolleyes:

red, goes with your car and i dont think any other colors go with red

stay black......get some simple green put it in like a spray thing like you would do pesticides on your bushes with *make sure its clean* and just spray everything down with that and wash it off, it looks real good clean better than red spaghetti

My car is grey, i went with blue accessory color....i think with red you should use silver...IMO...


gunnmen01

Originally posted by gunnmen01
My car is grey, i went with blue accessory color....i think with red you should use silver...IMO...


gunnmen01

yea, i think silver is good too. too much red i dont like...

Good points, now im in a brain twister. was gonna go red, but now i dont know. Ahh. I dont know if it would be possible, but could someone try to use photoshop on my engine picture, and maybe paint the valve silver? If not oh well, and if you do, thanks big time.

If you paint the vlave silver it will burn off as soon as it opens.

I voted Other because i say a BLACK engine bay on a Red car looks sweet!!! and get everything either chrome or color matched and it would look sweet!

my car right now is that burgandy redish sparkly color, but i'm going to be painting on a custom red when i got my body kit on. And i think that Red and Chrome would look best in the engine. Thats what im doing anyways. Red/black wires , Chrome stuff.. even metallic red accesories. Thats what im doing after exterior is perdy much done. But just go with you instinct. You dont want to be opening your hood up everyday to somin you dont like. Know what i mean ? :)

If I were you, the only thing I would do, is clean it up. Ya know, make it look like a new cars engine bay. Who are you going to impress with all those pretty colors under your hood? Toddlers? They are the only people that are "really" into colors. This is just my opinion. :D

just keep it simple... nothing beats a nice clean engine bay...
are you doing mpfi? cuz that would look a lot better than what you got now too

since its auto, not really im not gonna worry about performance too much, if i just get a new exhaust, ill be happy. Just gonna worry about the look of my car, thats why i wanna redo my engine bay.

I voted other because i think you should chrome everything out. If not go red or silver. Your car though. Do what you like and what you think will look best.

I didn't vote and here is my reasoning...THIS THREAD IS ALMOST ONE YEAR OLD.