View Poll Results: Paint the Engine Bay Satin Black or Color Of Car????
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black engine bay anyone?
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ok im in debate with myself here and im leaving it to the board to solve it. im going to be starting on my 1994 camaro project shortley has far as the paint and body work goes. im paint the car dark spiral grey with a coat of transparent black over it to give it a darker contrast and more grey to black flop. now heres the thing i dont know weather or not i want to paint the engine bay satin black or the color of the car. i like both im just having trouble deciding whats going to look the best. this car is a drag/show car. give me your opinions and feel free to post pics if you have them.
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well ive just been debating different blacks for the engine bay only because i think it would make the motor stand out more since im painting the block and intake. im just trying to get as many opinions as possible.
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the color of the car im leaning twords. gloss black is nice on black cars but i dont think its nice on other colors. i paint cars and do body work i so mean its not hard for me either way and its a project so im going to put the time and effort into it. im also thinking of smoothing out all the seems to give it a really clean look aswell.
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the color of the car im leaning twords. gloss black is nice on black cars but i dont think its nice on other colors. i paint cars and do body work i so mean its not hard for me either way and its a project so im going to put the time and effort into it. im also thinking of smoothing out all the seems to give it a really clean look aswell.
I have done many cars for other people but never anything like this. I would lose my butt if I had to charge someone for doing this in fact I wouldn't do this for anyone. This may be the last car I ever build so I want it to be my best. When it's finished I want to say I did everything myself and I mean everything. The interior is going to be a real challenge but I think I can make it look nice as well.
You are a paint and body guy so you know how much fun it is to do something like this.
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I think if you did gloss black it would look sharp. I think the black makes the Crome and the braided lines stand out alot more. Granted the same color cars flow better, but to make it POP in my opinion Gloss Black. The reason satin or flat would look bad is one no reflection, and two it would look dirty all the time. If the bay shines like the car, then its all pretty uniform anyhow, and the black will push the eyes to the SHINEY PARTS....
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yaeh i know how much fun all this stuff is. im picky and everything has to be near perfect. im doing a lot of detail work such as mentioned with the stainless bolts and polished aluminum and i got some other stuff im doing. i have a few custom things im going to be building for the interior but everyons going to have to wait and see. im not doing a sub box or anything like that incase anyone thinks that lol. well keep your eyes out for the progress thread. im at a hault right now because im waiting to start the body work. i gotta get the rest of the interior out and then begin in the beginning of february.
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IMO i would do do it flat black so that way at night, no one sees what u have plus it may be hard during the day. but u want a show car and wanna show off what u have
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i did satin black in mine and im happy with it...really clean look..but if you can afford to do a good job with the body color then do it that way..i had to go teh cheaper route