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    Suggestions on colors in my engine bay for my wheat metallic beige stealth?

    I'm looking for some suggestions on what colors I should go with inside my engine bay for my wheat beige metallic stealth. It 's kind of a weird color and somtimes it looks silver ish and other times more beige. Any suggestions?

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    Black seems to be my first thought but there are so many cool powder coats out there now.
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    if you're painting the bay black, you can do pretty much whatever. if you're keeping it stock color, then i'd suggest trying to accent the paint. maybe go with powder-coat bronze or pewter or something. maybe pewter with bronze flake so there's just a twinge of color.

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    My first vote would be black as well. Black on metallic beige looks pretty slick, and won't clash.

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    I love that color for some reason, but I bet you would have to keep the car really clean, otherwise it would look dated amd grungy like all of the 80's-90's "champagne" cars you see. So I would go with a gloss or satin black, and the only accent be either polished metal or matching powdercoat.

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    Thanks for the help guys! I think i'm gonna do a black of some sort and get some powder color matched to the wheat metallic beige. Lol I have no idea why I could'nt think of that earlier! Have you guys used or seen the chrome powder? I'm thinking about doing my tranny cases and t case with the chome powder but I've never actually seen it in person.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RI 3gtvr4 View Post
    Thanks for the help guys! I think i'm gonna do a black of some sort and get some powder color matched to the wheat metallic beige. Lol I have no idea why I could'nt think of that earlier! Have you guys used or seen the chrome powder? I'm thinking about doing my tranny cases and t case with the chome powder but I've never actually seen it in person.
    do something unique. clear over polished, rather than chrome.

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    do something unique. clear over polished, rather than chrome.
    I hear ya! I just wanna stay away from polishing the tranny cases. Lol I don't even wanna think about how long it would take. I was thinking about the clear black chrome powder solar rain dark chrome over the custom wheat metallic beige powder for the tranny cases. So many decisions to make!

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    I also have a wheat beige Stealth. I was thinking about polishing the intake and valve covers as suggested. Post some pics after you finish.

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