What color to bay the engine conpartment
Hi everyone
I'm at the point where I'm ready to paint the engine conpartment.
The 72 demon will be painted flat black on the hood fender tops trunk lid and the tops of the back of the car. The interior will be black and the vinyal top will also be black
The sides of the car will be painted a dulacolor candy orange.
I'm planning to black out the grille and all the chrome is either be blacked out or a black flat anadise.
My question should i paint the engine conpartment
Flat Black or the Candy orange.
I feel the flat black is the way I see the car.
My 2 Cents
I hate looking at a MOPAR that the engine compartment is painted black unless it is a black car. It makes the car look cheap, PLus flat black in the engine compartment would be really hard to clean and look nice. Now if you are going for a rat rod look, don't care for that either, then by all means paint it flat black (actually you should paint it black and put a clear on it with flattener in it).
But if you look at the A12 cars and see how the factory did them you will see body color in the engine compartment.
It is your car, do what you like and the hell with what we think
Sounds like you plan on a nice car, MY OPINION IS TO PAINT THE INNER FENDERS AND FIREWALL BODY COLOR, paint the fender lip down to the tab with the bolt holes black and the hood edges to match the top of the hood
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body color engine bay makes the engine POP
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if it were black it would blend in
My engine is painted the same color blue as the stripe on the car
Paint engine gloss black and the engine compartment the same orange as the car, that is what I would do
