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View Poll Results: What engine bay paint scheme for black SS w/ silver accents?
Everything gloss black.
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Everything sebring silver.
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LS6 intake sebring silver, everything else gloss black.
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LS6 intake gloss black, everything else sebring silver.
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Old 03-20-2006, 11:43 PM
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This is for a black SS, silver (NOT chrome/polished) fill-ins and "SS" badging, black painted brake calipers with silver "CAMARO" lettering on fronts, painted aluminum stock 10-spoke rims, dark window tint all around. I'm going to do the hide-the-wire mod on the pass. side, remove AC, and relocate battery to the back.

I'm debating over what color I should paint what parts (water pump, valve covers, timing cover, TB, MAF ends, etc)

Please vote and let me know why you think so....
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everything silver. Everyone has gloss black that has a black car. be different.
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All silver would look best IMO
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Voted silver, just try and spread the accent color evenly through-out the
motor bay.
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I voted gloss black intake and silver on the rest.

You're going to still have wiring and other misc black hoses. you need a nicely done black intake to "tie it together."

Unless it's a polished lump like mine where I've almost totally eliminated the wiring, your "all painted" engine will look cluttered by the hoses and wiring(injector wiring,pcv,etc), if the intake was black it would look better IMO.

Are you going to paint the heads too?
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Not the heads.....
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I voted everything gloss black.
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Originally Posted by FIREHAWK#608
I voted gloss black intake and silver on the rest.

You're going to still have wiring and other misc black hoses. you need a nicely done black intake to "tie it together."

Unless it's a polished lump like mine where I've almost totally eliminated the wiring, your "all painted" engine will look cluttered by the hoses and wiring(injector wiring,pcv,etc), if the intake was black it would look better IMO.

Are you going to paint the heads too?

i second this one
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I've always liked a gloss black paint job under the hood.
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Silver---I am partial to that color.
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carnation pink wuld look good
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Originally Posted by camarizzle1AC
i second this one
I 3rd this one
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Originally Posted by camaroguy_02
carnation pink wuld look good
Sorry guys, I think this one takes the cake!

Thanks for the opinions so far, keep 'em comin'....



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