Painting an engine bay

[Colin]

Is there any performance oriented reason <u>not</u> to paint my engine bay black??

[RidinRails]

yes its rice

[SPANISH-RICE]

what color is the car now? i think black bays look pretty clean with the right outside color.

[Colin]

RidinRails;172721 wrote:
yes its rice

thats funny from the guy with a coffee can coming off the back of his car

Again: performance oriented. ONLY WONDERING ABOUT THE HEAT REFLECTING/ABSORBING QUALITIES OF BLACK PAINT

[Erik]

I can only think that heat issues would be light/sunlight affected. So an engine bay should really have no effect.

Except for glowing exhaust manifolds.

[thurmanmerman]

Ive seen guys paint it gray so they can tell if they are leaking any fluids easier. Im sure black spray paint won't have any affect on it at all. If it was like a high temp heat resistant paint then thats a different story.

[black2g]

i've heard painting a block a certain color is bad for heat but the engine bay shouldn't matter.

[91nbtsi]

Black is naturally a better absorber of radiant heat than other colors. So...I guess it will help you out some by absorbing some of the engine bay heat and conducting it through your body panels to then be convected into the ambient air.

[Rexwagon]

Ive seen a lot of ppl with theirs black so i would assume it should be all good. are you going to remove some of the holes in the bay to by welding them and grinding them smooth too? it gives it that real clean look.

[Colin]

I'm not into "clean" it's too much work. I am, however, a big proponent of no-rust.

And believe me. My engine bay gets wet and dirty.

[zbrown]

i am more along the lines of an ppg epoxy primer so as i can drop/throw a wrench at my engine bay and all it does is smile back......

So does it make me or you more of a ricer if i have a painted engine bay and 4 mufflers = quiet............or you with a fart can and not painted engine bay????

[Colin]

i dont have a fart can. I actually dont have exhaust at all. Or headers. In three cars.

Or an engine.

[zbrown]

Colin;173096 wrote:
i dont have a fart can. I actually dont have exhaust at all. Or headers. In three cars.

Or an engine.

ha...no i wasnt aiming that at you... you didnt make the comment

[RidinRails]

i was just joking when i told colin it was rice..

and im sorry aps has all their exhuast with a 4inch tip.

[Colin]

It's ok, I'm now the proud owner of a blitz Nur spec cannon with 3in catless single piece exhaust

[ihaveaids]

Shaved and tucked engine bays are amazing. Don't know what you drive but here are some honda examples. Observe.

[dubbsy]

ihaveaids;174157 wrote:
Shaved and tucked engine bays are amazing. Don't know what you drive but here are some honda examples. Observe.

[IM G]http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w27/vtec112/eibach-126.jpg[/IMG]

[IM G]http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w27/vtec112/eric032b.jpg[/IMG]

[IM G]http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w27/vtec112/Ricky1.jpg[/IMG]

and not very good examples at that.

[KA-T_240]

They may be "clean" but they are far from shaved. look at 99 civics engine bay that is shaved and tucked. I spent way to much time on my engine bay.

[bubba]

Those bays were tucked, not shaved, otherwise there wouldnt be holes anywheres....there's a K24 CRX on Honda-Tech, had everything tucked and everything shaved, complete down to the bare frame build...

[DelSlow]

sweet mugen strut bar...doesnt king ricer have one :rolleyes: