Need Pics of Dressed Engines

[fiasco]

I want to do a some dressing up of my new engine while it's still out and need to decide what to do. Reyy has offered to sandblast parts before I paint them, but I don't know yet what I want to paint. So I need a little help.

First - I'd love to see some pics of engines that have been dressed up a bit. I'm not talking "Pimp My Ride" or anything - just looking for examples of where you've used touches of color to make it look nice.

Second - I need advice on how to paint different parts - what to use, etc. That is, can I paint the exhaust manifold, and if so, what kind of paint do I use - that sort of thing. I hate to raise the glossy vs. krinkle debate, but what the heck - have at it.

Thanks all,
-- se

[spiderrey]

you need to use high heat engine paint, comes in lots of colors and clear. ill show you tommrow, i have lots .

[baltobernie]

Spiderrey, is that Ford Grey engine enamel on the block? That's what I'm thinking of going with.

[ventura ace]

This shot is pretty much the way my engine is now:



You might want to page back through some other photos in this photobucket file to see some other color accents that I experimented with, but later chose to tone it down.

A

[johndemar]

Alvon,

Did you paint the cam boxes or spend about a thousand hours polishing them?

John

[mdrburchette]

I went with black for the block:


Having the exhaust manifold ceramic coated was probably the single best thing I did to clean up the engine:


Add a little bling and Viola!

[ventura ace]

Did you paint the cam boxes or spend about a thousand hours polishing them?

John

They were bead blasted (compliments to John Logan), and left bare.

[ga.spyder]

I used VHT hi-temp paint on the exhaust manifold and heatshield. The cam covers,AFM,and plenum are polished.



Hey,thats not a Fiat motor!!

[fiasco]

Does anyone paint the cam covers on these engines - or does that end up looking goofy?

-- se

[ga.spyder]

We all joke w/ Mike B. about the wrinkle paint,but that is the way he and others have done the cam covers.It looks good on there.

[jprisbe]

Powder coating the cam covers, air cleaner, timing belt cover, etc. is an option as well.

[mdrburchette]

That came out great Jon! A man after my own heart with all that bling. I believe Alvon had his painted at one time.

[ga.spyder]

Wow ,that looks really good.Nothing like a clean,uncluttered engine bay.

[spiderrey]

i used ford engine grey, and then i cleared it to give it a shine with duplicolor engine paint. my valve covers are polished and the cam towers were bead blasted and hit with clear to keep them clean. it gave them a pewter look. my headers were also ceramic coated and polished.


this is some bling for an x that im toying with in the garage.

[sjmst]

Not the greatest but here is mine: