What color block? What kinds of paint?

What color is your engine bay going to be/ already is?

Then find a nice color that contrasts that.

My bay is going to be a medium metallic blue, so I will paint my engine orange.


If it is a new rebuild or an old engine, I suggest washing and scrubbing the engine with strong soapy water until there is zero trace of grease or oil and rinsing it down w water, followed by "metal prep wash", let dry completely, then epoxy primer, then your color.

Eastwood makes a variety of engine colors and also a metal prep wash:

http://www.eastwood.com/paints/hi-temp-engine-paints/engine-paints.html

http://www.eastwood.com/eastwood-afterblast.html