I have the motor out of the car right now for a build that I'm doing and i decided that i would paint the crummy engine bay black so the motor would get more attention. Also this makes it 100x easier to paint the rest of the car and not worry about the bay no matter how many diffrent colors the car goes threw.

Here are the results.

 

i did that on both of my thirdgens and it does make it look tons better. i did mine gloss though i may go back and do it semi gloss. it also is easy to touch up.

 

Looks good! I used some of that flat black ceramic paint that is good to 1200 degrees and I love the way it looks!

 

Maybe I should have used the high heat stuff, but someone got me the paint so I just used that. Do you think it will be alright?

 

Most likely.

 

i didnt use hi-temp paint and everything is fine.

 

Looks good

I painted mine semi-flat black and am pretty happy with how it turned out.

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wow, you did it for real, for real. It's easier with a carb car. you can actually just remove everything. I have to many wires. That looks really great though. good job!

 

well its not always easier om a carbed car or less wires. lol both of my thirdgens had tons of underhood wireing and took me hours to sort it out on my 86 and im still working on it on my 82 lol.

 

I did mine the color that the car is going to be


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After

 

See, that would be ideal if I had the cash to do the engine and the paint at the same time. However, if you flat black the engine bay, you can paint the car 30 times and not have to worry about spraying the bay. Flat black matched it all. Anyway, the motor is Chevy orange so it's going to stand out in there.

 

i had the forst motor i put in my 82 chevy orange and with the bay black it had a nice contrast especialy with some chrome on it. im into doing mine all black though. black bolck/heads valve covers paint my intake black. try to make it look like its not much. but its a dead give away when i start it up lol.

 

So you just painted over the rusty areas??
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iv done the whole flat black rattle can job on engine bays
it looks decent and its nice if your always working on the car or worried about dropping ****...
i took the time and did mine right though

 

No. Everything was taken down to bare metal, hit with etching primer, high build primer and then light primer before the paint went down.

 

I think you can't go wrong with a flat black engine bay, it's a throw back idea that matches like other people have said any color the body might be. I think it looks great!