i was under the hood of my truck the other day and my ol lady said that my engine was boring (women) so at first i laughed and i then i started thinking whats the point of making the outside look good when the engine looks like plain so the point of this useless thread is to ask for some pics of your motor or any thoughts of what i could do to please this unpleasabe woman i was thinking about pulling the valve cover and intake horn off and painting them but i cant think of a good color the outside of my truck is white

any thoughts?

 

A white valve cover and horn would look pretty sick, leave all the letters black. I think that would look cool. Paint that alternator bracket too.

 

I did my valve cover as described above, somewhat.



Intake horn is the same grey. The compressor housing matches the valve cover paint as well. Here is a thread of how my compressor housing was done:
https://www.dieselbombers.com/bad-la...ent-color.html

 

Wheres your overflow cap haha. I like that color looks good. is that a compound twin?

 

I painted my valve cover with high temp grill paint, it was nice and flat but leaning allover it getting it greasy made it kind of shiney

 

i think i may have to go white and i never thought about the alt bracket what kind of paint would last with the heat and i love the twins look we could just trade
and empty wallet how did you mask the lettering off i want mine to look that good
thats what i mean i can tell you both have nice trucks and i havent even seen the outside

 

Just a before and after Nothing special, just cleaned up a bit. The intake horn, and apps braket are bare aluminum with a little mothers metal polish

 

you made that big of difference just by cleaning it some that after pic is a huge difference the only thing bad about mine is that it came from up north and there is some signs of salt damage under the hood

great pics keep em coming

 

Rust Or oxidation of the aluminum parts?

 

Here is mine. I have powder coated a couple of other things since this picture.