http://www.club3g.com/forum/show-shine/119445-post-your-engine-bay-shots.html

 

Paint the valve cover, 74 manifold swap (performance oriented too) with powdercoat/polishing, reverse fender washers look cool, aluminum oil cap, Ingalls Torque Damper (performance oriented too), custom battery tie down, killer glass, etc.

There are endless amounts of stuff you can do to make it look good, heck a nice cleaning will make it look 100x better. Read the above thread Chad posted and it'll give you more ideas, but do NOT overdo it with the blue.

 

Yep, I had looked at that thread for some ideas. I've seen some of the stuff you said, and yeah ill definitely clean it all anyway but ill look at the other stuff. And yeah I'm gunna try to do it so Its a good mix and not just all blue. I just want blue to be the main theme.

 

Something like this would be good then maybe with the braided hoses appearance. Also I'd like to somehow paint the radiator fluid bottle and windshield washer one. It might not be the smartest thing but I hate that god awful aged white.

 

Yeah, I think that engine bay looks great! If you follow in their footsteps you should be fine. Not sure on painting the bottles because 1) it will probably flake easily and look like crap and 2) You won't be able to tell if its full/empty. Many members have relocated their bottles and some have changed them out for aluminum ones (One brand was WeaponR I believe).

 

Yeah, I think that engine bay looks great! If you follow in their footsteps yu should be fine. Not sure on painting the bottles because 1) it will probably flake easily and look like crap and 2) You won't be able to tell if its full/empty. Many members have relocated their bottles and some have changed them out for aluminum ones (One brand was WeaponR I believe).

Okay yeah my main concern was not seeing in and true the flaking would look terrible haha but ill have to look into those bottles

 

Wow, an old thread. Im pretty proud of myself :blush2:

Still thinking of hydrodipping the valve carbon fiber of the winter. Hmmm

 

That looks real good. Great job!

 

Thanks man! I think I'm a little late on that reply haha. Anyway, definitely glad how far my engine bay has come. The only real "eyesore" I have with it is the bulk of black tubes in between the CAI and air plenum. I would like to change them out for blue, but i dont know how far back id have to trace them. But again i dont want to over due it with blue :dunno: Maybe whenever i clean it all up come spring Ill think about it more. I also have been thinking about hydrodipping the valve cove with a CF design, and maybe painting to intake plenum black. Again kind of hesitant though because i dont want to loose it all to black you know.

 

You could just get some blue plastic wire loom in different sizes for the mess of wires on the battery side.

 

That's what I have running around the valve cover haha. But if I can get like blue vacuum hose, that's the word I'm looking for, that'd be great. But again tracing them down may be an issue. So wire look may be what I have to go with haha. Like this, notice all the red in that area? Just looks a lot cleaner to me

 

A wire tuck is mostly free and would look well, and maybe relocate the battery to the rear which just costs as much as the wire to move it does.

 

Doesn't the wire tuck disable cruise control though? Cause id rather keep that haha

 

It should have no effect on cruise control since the cc wires come through the passenger side with the wiper motor wiring. The other cc related item is the vac hose going from the cc module to the throttle body, but a bulk section of properly routed vac line solves that.

 

Hmm, okay maybe ill start looking into that! I read part of the How-To last summer, but i recall seeing a warning saying the CC would no longer work so I lost interest. Thanks!

Found it, bookmarked, added to future mods list :yesway:
http://www.club3g.com/forum/show/129586-how-engine-bay-wire-tuck-v6.html