What would you do?

The motor is already out and I have patched all the holes, and started the filler work. The "new color" with the sublime green for however long until the car gets painted, is one problem I was worried about. To add a another twist to colors, the 360 I am putting back in is already Chrysler red. I was going to do black on the inner fenders, but keep thinking about all the work it is going to be to pull the motor again to repaint "correctly". I am doing as good of job as I can do on the repair work. I can't stand shoddy stuff, which is how I got this problem in the first place! Maybe it just stays blacked out, and the car goes in the hot rod "category".

I like that idea! the red engine, with the red car, but a blacked out bay would look cool i think! PLUS, you only have to do it once.

Here's a Camaro Bay with black inner fenders and core support.