What can I paint in my engine bay without pulling engine?

[NastyStrontium]

I want to blackout my engine. Ideally, I'd like to get most components powdercoated, but I'm planning on pulling the engine and doing a rebuild when I get my car repainted. That won't be until I graduate from university, so for now, I'm just looking to make the engine a little nicer. I'm thinking the intake, valve covers, and turbo shield, but I'm not sure if the paint will hold. What other parts could I paint without too much work involved?

 

[~JM~]

What ever you can remove or mask off.

First you have to remove the many years of road grime, grease, etc.

Be careful you don't go overboard & make it look tacky.

~JM~

 

[gmmuscle]

I come at it from a different view. Go to any car show and see a car with a decent paint job, interior and clean motor but look at the cowl, radiator support, inner fenders front suspension and underside of hood and you'll see how little attention to detail most people have. And underhood bolts are either oversprayed, rusty, or mismatched/incorrect. These things take time to clean, sand, prime and paint but are very inexpensive to fix. Just my 2 cents...

Carl

 

[slimtastic]

if i were you id do it once...do it right. when people do it with th eengine in the car it always looks like crap

 

[NastyStrontium]

The problem is that I won't be doing an engine rebuild till I graduate and don't have to pay tuition anymore. Perhaps it would just be best to clean it up for now, then get it powdercoated later.

 

[big reazon]

clean it paint it for now once your funds are in proper order and for some reason your pulling the motor go show quality then.

 

[usetaboost]

I'd just clean the shit out of it. A can of degreaser and a few bucks at the car wash does wonders for a crusty engine bay

 

[TRICKSIXPA]

I agree get like two cans of Engine Degreaser warm up the motor cover up the ALT make sure you have a Air Compressor. Spray on the the degreaser
let it sit for 20 minutes. Wash it off with a garden hose spray it down. Then take the the Air hose and blow the water off you don't want the water sitting in there
that long so this is where an air compressor really works good. If you want the engine to look nice wait until your in the process of rebuilting it. Spraying is not the way to go
unless the parts are off the motor. Since your probabbly gonna spray bomb it any way use some aluminum foil to wrap the things you don't want to cover in paint up. Works better than taping.

 

[NastyStrontium]

I think I might just hold off on it now. I'll just clean it all up so it looks nice and stick with that till I can do it right. No point wasting money if it might not look good and I'll just be redoing it

 

[usetaboost]

eagle1 mag wheel cleaner works great for cleaning aluminum. Power wash the crap out of it, clean up the aluminum with that cleaner and rinse. DOn't get that stuff on the paint.