Never a doubt in my mind. I love looking at your engine compartment Dennis. You'll never see one of my compartments black unless I have a black car...which will be highly unlikely too. I'm not knocking you guys that like the black. Everyone has his own opinion. I just like the clean look a painted compartment has, and yes, it is tougher to keep clean but well worth it in my opinion.
Get it painted Grabber Blue ... if you change your mind later on you can spray bomb it black ... going from black to a matching Grabber Blue wouldn't be as easy ...
I have been wrestling with this very same question. I believe I will texture it with rockerguard and paint it satin black. I saw a vette done this way and it looked killer. Then again I may just try the Azure blue color and see what it looks like first
Wow did you hang from the ceiling like a bat to take that picture or what? Looks very good. I have said it before your car is one of the cleanest and well put together cars I have seen.
Looks great Dennis!, However Your's is a show car, and a paint job like that is just not practical for a driver (meaning more then on and off a trailer) I belive Black is a good way to go!
I voted body color, I have cars with body color and black. Like the body color. But all stallions are black under the hood, boring. Dan
I agree. Need to think about what you will use the car for. For a strictly show car, I would go body color. A car that will be driven on a regular basis should be satin black.
But it's still going to be "boring". I drive my blue car quite often and sure, I have to wipe the engine compartment down every now and then. About 15-20 minutes later...looks great again! You guys need to go to a car show and check out all the engine compartments that get the most attention. I'll guarantee you most of them will be body color. I go to a lot of shows and I do a lot of judging in shows so I'm not just saying this as an opinion. I have never seen a "Best Engine Compartment" award go to a car with a blacked out engine compartment. I'm not saying it won't or doesn't happen but will be seldom. Black out just looks like you took the easy way out...which I guess is the case many times from the posts above.
Ray, when was the last time you put 7,500 miles on one of your show cars in 5 months? I'm talking about cars that are really DROVE. I vivdly remember my dad's Comets engine compartment being a major PITA to keep clean. And that car was only driven very little to shows and back.