getting my engine back soon and after ideas about what to do with my engine bay. i have satin blacked it and it looks shit and i want to tidy it up. removing the previous colour is going to be fun. but then what.... any good suggestions to making it look neat?? cheers

 

Nuff said.

Edited October 20, 201313 yr by B-Lugg

Body color or gloss black

 

contemplating gloss black or dull silver. had a mate suggest the inside of a tinny like a white with spattered black. gloss black will probably be eas

iest

whatever you pick make sure its good paint and it is done well.

 

we painted an engine bay with cheap paint once, and did an ordinary job. looked great UNTIL we started working on the engine. All the paint started chipping off in places and it began looking very tacky....

yeh mate thats the drama with the satin black. looks shit afer 12+ months. do it once do it right. unsure on colour cause i wanna do the car a different colour down the track, now is the ebgine bay colour, next is whole car

My KE30 will have a black engine bay, nice and simple plus matches almost every colour!

White or body colour or ANY DAMM COLOUR EXCEPT BLACK!

 

So hard to do work in a black engine bay, especially in reduced light such as on the roadside in the evening!

yeh i like what your saying altezza, ive been reading about racecars with white or silver to see spills,leaks and other issues easily. white bay with a bit of colour on the block and some chrome could look good, even body colour coded rockercover and the likes. ive gotta get it clean to start with and then organise my compressor and ill let you all know how i go

Body colour and tonnes of clear coat!

I'm just gonna rattle off a few...

 

 

Spray chrome & clear coat (not the tacky silver paint, you can actually get spray on chrome)

 

Get a few decks of playing cards and go nuts with contact adhesive, then clear it. Worked well on the front quarter of my Charade except I forgot the clear coat and they perished in the sun :(

 

Wrinkle finish the whole bay (be aware that this requires baking, but once it sets it's very durable)

 

Hammertone

 

Paint the bay white, then stick a fire cracker in a plastic bag of paint and shut the bonnet. Do a few passes with different colours (red, blue, yellow etc.)

 

Make sure you remove/close off everything in the bay, then set a fire in there to burn off all the paint

 

This last one is a bit of a process. Strip all the paint and remove the galv with either a grinder or ascorbic acid (neutralize with baking soda afterwards or it corrodes everything downwind of it), then rub beer & salt into the bare metal to make it rust. Once it gets brown enough, wash the shit off and spray it with this stuff:

Let it seep in for a few days, then whack a few coats of clear over it. The fish oil stays tacky basically forever but you can still clear over it. If the steel is galvanized you can do the same process and let it rust through a bit. Looks like this on my Charade:

What the ʞ©$ɟ did I just read?

What the ʞ©$ɟ did I just read?

The man asked for engine bay 'paint' ideas, he didn't say how weird.

Hahahahaha!!

 

Air brush skulls everywhere lol