Engine Bay Colour Scheme

[75coupe]

its come time to coat my new setup, and I havnt settled on a colour scheme as yet, there are still some minor heatshields and other stuff but I want to send all the parts to get coated...

let me know what you think colour wise....

Im coating strut brace, intake plenum, cam covers, cam belt cover and intake piping

[75coupe]

oh and its a silver r33 with black vented bonnet, reb brake calipers, black rims lots of CF outside & CF cooling panel. std series 2 body kit.

I choose red and blue to go with the speedflow fittings, but Im open to suggestions.

[75coupe]

more colour schemes

[DaveO74]

Red, do the fuel rail as well and the stut top brace bar grey or black. Then it will match the arc box.

Also don't forget the little things lime the radiator brackets etc

Edit: do the plenum and IC piping grey as well (all gloss though)

[(OO)SKYLINE(OO)]

its come time to coat my new setup, and I havnt settled on a colour scheme as yet, there are still some minor heatshields and other stuff but I want to send all the parts to get coated...

let me know what you think colour wise....

Im coating strut brace, intake plenum, cam covers, cam belt cover and intake piping

^^ This or just replace the red cam cover with Millennium Jade.

[75coupe]

Red, do the fuel rail as well

Im not sure I can powder coat the fuel rail, as it needs to fit the injectors and Im worried the coat may be too thick and make fitting harder...

I suppose I can get it re-anodised in red but that sounds expenisve....

Millenium jade, hmmm I wanted to powder coat everything though... a bit longer lasting than just painting...

[75coupe]

^^ This or just replace the red cam cover with Millennium Jade.

hmmm not sure about that one...

[Carbon 34]

Im not sure I can powder coat the fuel rail, as it needs to fit the injectors and Im worried the coat may be too thick and make fitting harder...

I suppose I can get it re-anodised in red but that sounds expenisve....

Millenium jade, hmmm I wanted to powder coat everything though... a bit longer lasting than just painting...

you can buy fuel rails in red made out of billet.? or machine out the powercoat, or use the anodizing spary paint from VHT heat/fuel proof

stick the the same colour as your other bits, red calipers, then red for engine parts, ?

millinuim jade is overrated unless the rest of the engine is for real ? plus it matches nothing

fewer colours is better, two or so IMO

[75coupe]

Ive already got the fuel rail to match the dekka injectors in blue...

can red anodising spray go over the blue though???

[DaveO74]

Yep metalcast ftw, have alook in my build thread dude, every thing that is red is metalcast.

If you can't find it let me know and I'll send you some pics.

You have a silver base coat than a candy on top. My covers went an orange tinge after a couple of years but the rail held up well.

Having said that Craved is currently powdercoating all my rail and covers cause it's tougher.

I've also done the runners and plazmaman and if they mask up the bits where the inj goes in It will be fine.

[75coupe]

ah cool powdercoat all the way I reckon... the red rail does look nicer... thx

[Craved]

i've done top feed rails before, just plug them for blasting and coating and it wont get inside the machined fittings.

perhaps ask 34geeteetee for some better pics of his rail.

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/index.php?app=core&module=attach&section=attach&attach_rel_module=post&attach_id=342957

red metalcast over blue would go purple lol

[75coupe]

hey thanks for that info Craved...

[ARTZ]

I like this one, except I would probably leave the strut brace bits blue, and I would get rid of those horrible red radiator houses for black.

That way you would have a red black theme going with a few little bits in blue..

If it was my car however all the red/blue would be gone ,you can get black fittings, and i would coat everything else in satin or gloss black this would match the rest of your car well too

edit* actually even if you keep all the red/blue fitting as it is and did just the covers in satin black...Can u photoshop one of them for me, leave everything the way it is but with black covers..even if you just did the cam covers with crinkle coat black and left everything else just the way it is just polish up the metal stuff i think it would look great and only cost 20$ for a can of paint

yep thats my vote crinkle coat covers and leave the rest

[Craved]

maybe i shouldnt, but ima leave this here

[ARTZ]

Sorry not trying to lose you work Craved but figured he was going somewhere else..

there was a pic of tangomatts 34 he has them done in crinkle coat,looks awesome but only suits certain cars..

[DaveO74]

Show off with ya fancy colours now your just gonna confuse him!

Do you reckon the metalcast would still purple up even with the base coat? not trying to push it cause you know I've been converted just curious.

Edit: BTW Arthur I "think" Chris can do the crinkle look powdercoating anyway

[ARTZ]

even better..i have tried it with a can and its tricky getting it to wrinkle evenly..

Confuse him!!

he started it when he gave me 9 different colour schemes to choose from and I didnt like any of them...

[DaveO74]

Hahahahaa!

You sadist

[ARTZ]

If he doesnt like the black idea

Id like to change my vote to this one though as it has the best balnace of colour, not sure why I didnt spot it before..

But yeah, ignore my previous posts (blabberings) this scheme with either the metalcast blue or black covers