I have a black S5 vert doing a t2 swap and I was asked what color I want the block painted ... I have no idea right now?

I have a few options I'm thinking of
1. Blue that has a purplish hue to it
2. Maybe tein green? idk


I'd love to do it black .. but like my freind mentioned .. if i have an oil leak i would not be able to tell easilly at all

and can you post pics if you have them?

 

mine is yellow and silver. I've seen it red and silver and also blue and silver and they all looked great

 

I have seen several colors....I think mine is great, very simple yet different. It is black and gold, but the gold is very light

 

pics ?

 

the color choices are limitless i used electric blue and black..just chose your 2 favorite colors if you can't decide (make sure they look good together)

 

The housings are MetalCast Red, the irons are VHT Black caliper enamel.

 

that candy red looks good Aaron

 

u could go half painted and polished like i did... after polishing my uim and some other stuff the engine block was a breeze comparison

 

Black and Yellow would be sweet, then it would look like it sounds.. A pissed off bumble bee...

 

I would go with the darkest colors you could possibly live with. The lighter colors will fade much faster, and polished would be..basically impossible to keep looking clean very long.

I'd go with the newest Kevin Lander's colors - Gloss Black, and a Charchol-ish gray.

 

He did mine what he does a lot of them, black and gunmetal grey.

 

mine is black on black with black everything..th IC piping was supposed to be black too,but they shipped the wrong color and i have no patience after waiting a month for it,but i digress,oil is easily visible when it leaks no matter what color your motor is,you still get drips in the driveway!

 

Oh man, I'd be alot more scared of bumble bees if they went brap brap brap...

You're not going to be happy until the entire car is that sweet sweet crimson red are you Aaron?

 

I like red and black.

In fact I'll be painting the Insight in the same colour scheme as the RX-7 as soon as I get a chance...

The MetalCast is holding up well though. Heat doesn't seem to be an issue with it and it's resistant to oil as well. Doesn't like brake cleaner or degreaser much so it's important to keep the engine clean so that it can just be wiped down with dish soap...Not as much of a pain as it sounds like.

 

it really depends on what you want.. if you want the block to stand out.... a bright vibrant color is best... either blue or red in my opinion

but if you want it to just be clean looking.. id say black and gunmetal....

 

i like red/ black... here's a 3rotor we built that we powdercoated the housings red and used vht black on the plates. i took the pic with my phone so the red doesn't pop as much in this picture. overall we usually paint the housings aluminum coat and the plates cast iron coat unless otherwise specified by the customer. the colour options are endless tho man hahaha

 

mine

 

mines painted the same colors as jm85rx7, but my reds and silvers are flipped

 

Here is my engine sporting Black and Red. Obviously it's not assembled but I hope to be done my spring.

 

Knock yourself out...

 

 

Black on Black

 

I am with Aaron Cake,

Red is the Tricoat PPG Same as the car, in a black engine bay

 

how do u guys prep the housings and plates for paint? sandblast?

 

heres mine its just red and blue using high temp engine paint from pep boys. o and thats dew on the paint b/c i left them out during the day and took them in at night