When I started building this motor I decided to paint it purple since it's my wifes favorite color. Is it too much? Opinions?

 

One more

 

the purple seems a little light maybe a darker purple would look better. although thats just my opinion.

 

Depends, what color is the car gonna be....not my cup of tea though

 

I wanted it darker but that was the darkest "engine paint" I could find. The car is maroon right now. It'll black as soon as I get the money.

 

with a black car it might not be to bad, put some ( i hate to say this) purple "under car" lights and match the interior with a little bit of it and it might look pretty sweet, or when you o paint it black get some low profile ghost purple flames, just to compliment the engine lol....i unno throwing some ideas around

 

i kinda like the dark purple that is the color of my car black base purple purl nice nice

 

i think it actually looks cool

 

Thanks for the replies. It's too late to change it even if I wanted to but I was curious.

 

Those Trick Flows are shiny....mmmmm.....

 

Holy cow it's barney purple!

 

I like it. First purple motor I've ever seen.

 

I'm not a big fan of it, but its your engine

 

I'd normally say I don't like it, but with a black car it could look pretty good. Its the first time I've seen an engine actually purple but at shows I've seen plenty of black cars with purplish inner fenders and it looked good, so I can't see the effect of having the engine purple being any different.

 

I like it. Get some parts anodized in purple, too.

 

I thought about that but figured it would be expensive. Does anyone know what having stuff anodized costs?

 

i don't care what anyone says, my g/f will never ever dictate the color of my engine.

outside of the car is a different story, but not the engine.

 

oh great, its not just my gf with that idea...

she painted my engine purple too.... Dupli Color Plum Purple to be exact
you can imagen how quick that **** came off

 

If my gf/wife looked like this, she could dictate anything she wanted to me:

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Hell, after 12 years of marriage I still find my wife pretty hot.

Just sayin'.

 

The color of the engine is fine IMO.

..my 87 is 'deep purple peral'




And while we're on it, it was my last gf who convinced me to keep my stock muffler on the TA and just get a cutout for it. She hated riding in the 87 with the flowmaster setup.

That's not all she did though, I also kept a package of hair elastics in the passenger door pocket so when we rode with the windows down, her hair wouldnt go everywhere.

 

I like it. A little darker would be cool though.

 

I don't mind pics of hot girls, but let's try to keep them off this tech-only site.

 

I have the matching intake!!!!!

 

That looks to be exact same color! The can looks the same anyway.
BTW, my wife didn't dictate anything. I just couldn't decide what color to paint the block. I knew I didn't want black or orange though. While I was at the store trying to decide I remebered her favorite color was purple. They had purple engine paint so I figured why not?

 

I think it'll look decent, especially when the car is black.

 

Not really my cup of tea, but those Trickflow 195s make it look quite a bit better!

 

I like it.. but then again Purple is my favorite color

 

in my opinion it looks good, but just because its painted, not b/c its purple. I think almost any color will look nice as long as you do a good clean job and dont have a bunch of diferent colors. The main thing i like is that it looks "clean" as oposed to bare metal.

it looks better than stock

 

Thanks for the opinions everyone. It seems to run pretty nice too.

 

where did u get the engine from and is it rebuilt or crate?

 

btw does the purple go with anything else on the car.

 

No it's not a crate. I picked up a L98 longblock and rebuilt it.
Also, no it doesn't match anything else yet.

 

http://store.summitracing.com/defaul...=egnsearch.asp

You might wanna look into these

 

thats all about royal purple oil...

 

I like it

 

i dont like it , i think it looks out of place without some other colors to go with it.

 

got any pics of the motor installed?

 

Not yet. I'm going to try to this weekend.

 

nice work, but my colour for engines (as long as it is a chevy/pontiac block) is light blue! like the original colour was.

matt

 

Sorry, links not working right. There are some purple valve covers on there somewhere.

 

That purple is beautiful. I now have a purple 92 so that would look absolutely lovely under my hood. I've always liked purple though. You did good with that color.

 

i like it, its just an engine and i dont think most people would worry about the color of it, thats almost like me walking down the hallway at school the other day and heard a group of chicks talking about cars; 'i want a red one!' 'oh red is cool but i want a yellow one!' 'oh and it has to be a 2 door!'


you can get 'purple power' windshield washer fluid at walmart to match , that stuff works good too!