So I just bought an LS6 intake and it needs to be painted one way or the other , its in pretty nasty condition. The general theme for my car is black with red accents.

Here is what it looks like under the hood currently. I plan on doing the !wire mod as well as polishing a few things.




So should I do gloss black, glossy red, or a different color ? maybe silver to accent the polished stuff?

 

What do you think about flaming the top part of the clear lid and lineing it up w/ flames on the intake ? ? ?

 

That would be cool, but I'm thinking more along the lines of things I can do myself.

 

umm... why is that thing orange??? over accenting a car.. like painting the bird on your sail panel and painting the lettering on your headlights.. will start making the car look.... well... cheesey

 

I believe the air intake is red, but the camera makes it look like it is orange.
I would do red.
Or maybe you can do both red and back together.

 

It does look orangish in the first picture but its just the camera, its actually a very deep red, closer to the second picture.

 

go for a high gloss red if you cant do true fire, lol. You can always send it to stryker.....

 

Stryker? Superman09 Could you PM me with info please.

 

i would either do true fire or black. IMO, its better to have the accents less bold, and red intake is a big chunk of the visible engine. the coil brackets, valve covers, or maf ends would work great in read IMO though

 

I am leaning more towards the black with other red accents, I think the intake being red is just too much of the engine bay. I think I will probably paint the valve covers red and the intake gloss black.

But I would still like to hear more opinions!!!

 

i voted silver, but my vote is probably biased...

BTW...mine is wetsanded smooth, with base/clear paint. Looking like new 20,000 miles later.

 

Another vote for silver.



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I say paint it clear.... haha just kidding. Hmm red might be a little much. Don't know though, so I'm going to say red.

 

voted silver, but gloosy black is cool too...

 

Either silver or gloss black If you went with ant thing else it would stick out too much in tou engine bay and not look too good.

 

I say go with glossy black.

 

Muave.

 

I'm planning on doing mine a nice silver with alot of metallic, then doing the valve covers the same and relocating the coils. I like the clean, simple look in the engine bay.

 

why not changing the engine to navy blue ??
ive never seen any F-Body with that colour
if not i'll go with Silver

 

If your going with black with red highlits I like...
1) Repaint the LID base to be black, or gloss black, I think the red is too much
2) Gloss black LS6 IM
3) red smooth bellows
4) maybe some red/black FRC's
5) keep the red bird on the LID tho, that looks good

both a red IM and that red lid base just look like too much, and if you don't get FRC you can consider parts of the coil packs to color, or even the spark wires. the MSD's are red and would be a red highlight.

This is kindof what I'm doing, only im red/black/polish instead of black/red.
My FAST is shiny black now but not in yet. Without FRC's or other highlights, a big bright IM draws your eye directly to it IMO and takes away from the "theme" look.