I need some ideas on painting or polishing manifold and valve cover

[IcelandGTO]

I need some ideas on painting or polishing my manifold and valve covers. what colour to have... show me your enginebays guys

[CoopKill]

With the black car, keep it a clean n neat black/white theme.

Or, Instead of doing the grey base on the cf look, do a white base. Would look clean, and awesome imo.

[dbest671]

Polished, CF wrap, blue is my theme. I recently put on black silicone intercooler hoses, just don't have any good pictures LOL.

[IcelandGTO]

any more ??

[Street_Chally73]

Black chrome on the VC would look pretty cool with a polished upper plenum.


Sent from the garage

[futurevr4man]

i have anodized red (two stage color) powder coated on my valve covers. i think it would look fantastic on your black car.

[IPD]

i vote shaved. everything is better shaved. april did an awesome job on mine!

pick an accent color and stick with it. otherwise, just go for polished. i personally would go with purple accents (obviously). on a black car, a few bits of anodized/powder/metallic purple can really pop.

[DrGonzo]

I'm going to be messing with some Hydrographics here in the next week. Same type of thing CoopKill has on his intake/plenum just a different design. I'll post up pics of the parts when I'm done to show the types of things you can do. No longer will you have to deal with just solid colors. Hydrographics open up worlds of patterns for you to accent parts with.

Here is a current pic of my engine bay:

[IPD]

gonzo, go with some kind of fractals pattern.

[DrGonzo]

I'm going with something a little weird and funky.



This is just a test with a spare cover as I have never done Hydographics at home before. Really hoping it comes out good