What color should I paint the engine bay?

[eclipsemf]

Im pulling the stock 7bolt to swap in a 6bolt that I am building. I want to paint the bay and possibly shave it to clean it up a bit. I was wondering what color you guys think I should go with.

Here are 2 pics of the car, but the exterior paint job might change to black or solver.

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[bryanwheat]

I would paint it the factory color.

 

[MHuddy1213]

what month of 97 was you car built and also how many miles are on you motor? off subject i know haha and i would go with black only cause you dont deffinatly know the exterior color and maybe do a chrome valve cover with it all

 

[eclipsemf]

what month of 97 was you car built and also how many miles are on you motor? off subject i know haha and i would go with black only cause you dont deffinatly know the exterior color and maybe do a chrome valve cover with it all

I think it a 07/96 and the motor has 113k but I think I was recently rebuilt in the past 10k

 

[MHuddy1213]

what are you planning on doing with it im looking for a mid 97-99 block

id probably just grab the whole setup off you

 

[ishnish]

Do you already know what color you plan to powdercoat your VC? If you choose to do it that is..

 

[eclipsemf]

Do you already know what color you plan to powdercoat your VC? If you choose to do it that is..

I was thinking black Powder Coated VC but I wasnt sure if a black bay would look good

 

[ishnish]

I wouldn't think so only cause it's nice to have colors that compliment each other by contrasting one another. I learned this through photography since I'm a photographer. It makes one heck of a difference. Black on black wouldn't look bad, but it definitely wouldn't be anything exciting either . My VC right now is powder coated black. Don't get me wrong, I love it but my car isn't black . Plus I'm sending it in to get redone another color anyway

 

[mattasi]

Paint it the same color that you paint the outside. Simple and very nice looking.

 

[MHuddy1213]

i would honestly paint the whole car including the engine baymetallic silver with black flakes in it

 

[Aproductions]

blaxk if you are planning to paint the car an unknown color as of now. Other wise OEM red that the outside is now. I love than color red.

 

[DSMnOOb00]

go crazy with it! make it your own! some ppl match the engine bay to the rims

 

[WES_393]

Flat or satin black. With black your not limited to what color scheme you go with and you don't have to repaint the bay whenever you paint the car. Everything matches with black. And by using flat, touching up areas is incredibly easy.

I wanted to go with blue/purple, but that would have looked horrible in a red engine bay. So, I went with satin black.

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[DSMK1NG]

Paint it the same color p88

 

[Ozone302]

Definitely flat black. Looks clean and like stated above, is easy to touch up. I say grab a couple rattle cans of flat black and go for it.

 

[Exxxel]

Matte black I love the contrast between engine bay & valve cover...

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[spyderdrifter]

I did satin black on my previous eclipse last summer. I wanted to do satin black on my current spyder, but also thought about painting the bay to match the paint job I did to my valve cover, which is a blue-silver faded into satin black with the 'rain-effect' look. I might just do that to the bay and have most everything else black. A couple other little things would get the matching paint look though. Whatever you decide, I recommend using heat resistant paint, just to be on the safe side. I also clear coated everything last summer and still retained the non-glossy finish.