Str8upChevy

Just so that we're clear,....I'm "NOT" posting these pictures because I think my motor looks good. In fact it's just the opposite. As you all know, I've posted tons of pictures of my car, but none of you have ever seen my motor.

So after admiring and commenting on Loochy 88's Super Clean engine compartment a few weeks back, he asked me if I had any under-the-hood photos, and I promptly told him No Way Dude,......aside from a few intake pieces and a STB, there's nothing worth looking at. It's my daily driver, and it gets driven in the rain almost on a daily basis.....therefore it's always dirty.

Well,......I finally decided I don't care anymore, so here's a few pictures of my "Dirty engine compartment". The first 3 pictures were after installing the STB back in December when I lowered the car. The rest were taken about a week later when I did the Airfoil, Elbow, Descreened MAF, and the cheap eBay CAI. Who cares,...it's still better than the stock filter, and it's reusable just like a K&N.








What should I do next to make it look better?.........besides detailing it.

Adric

cool paint that STB it sticks out like a soor thumb heh.

V6Cam

yeah that STB does stand out...your engines not as bad as mine...so dont feel bad

Str8upChevy

Yeah, I actually thought about painting it before I had them install it, but I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with the engine compartment at the time.

All the suspension pieces came Red except for the springs. (yellow) Maybe I'll see what happens after I have the flames put on the car......I may end up doing something with those colors,.....Maybe!

Adric

yeah sounds good

69z-28

looks nice. only complaint i have is the big TCS box, but whatya gonna do. looks really good tho!

Onedarkevl

you know what would look badass? IMO

If you took the tangerine from the flames your putting on, and brought it into the engine bay. You could re-paint your STB to match, and maybe get some FRC's and paint some mini-flames on em' Just a suggestion.

blue89vert

that would be cool^ I think you should find some chrome pieces to dress it up. Even though its a DD it would still look good if you kept up with cleaning it.

Str8upChevy

HUH?.....What's that? I guess I don't understand some of the abbreviations for things on these newer cars. What does TCS stand for?

Personally I'd love to rip about half this stuff out of here, but then it wouldn't run. I still prefer the older muscle cars prior to 73. After that they started adding all the smog control crap and eventually the computer controlled things, but hey......I'm coming around, slowly but shirley.....hahahahaha, I just realized how I spelled surely. I have a sister named shirley, so I guess it a habit.

69z-28

TCS= Traction Control ****.lol. its the big box located on the drivers side by the master cylinder.

yea thats why i took out all the dumb emmisions crap. it REALLY helps clean up the engine bay, basically when i did my headers i made everything extremely more simple. and thats why i got the fuel rail covers to make everything look clean and uniform under there.

NoRiceInside

get rid of the heat wrap on your wire harness on the back passenger side then remove the yellow FUEL warning tape on the fuel lines. i did that and it made it a lot cleaner. also try painting the blue sleeves on your intake red. that would really look good.

Str8upChevy

Ha-Ha-Ha..........Oh my gosh, that's so funny!..... I went out there and pulled the Throttle Cable Solenoid cover off. Well,....it has the same letters ~ TCS ~ but after taking it off, it don't look that bad. It's the black box looking thing above the drivers side valve cover.

So I guess I better go out and look for the Traction Control ****, and also remove the Caution Labels and other stuff Caleb mentioned. I'm not to sure about painting the rubber sleeves Red though. I still need to decide what color combination I want to go with. As far as the A/C and other emmissions stuff goes, I'll be moving to So. Cali. in the next two years, so that stuff has to stay on.

But hey, Thanks for all the suggestions guys!

69z-28

IMO dont paint flexible rubber like that. it will crack and look like ****. get the color rubber that you want. i think black would look best on the rubber elbows. then dress up the bigger peices like STB and maybe some FRCs and get the tangerine color under there like mentioned earlier.

Str8upChevy

I don't think there's any way I'm gonna get any FCR's on this engine. There's way too much stuff that has to stay on there for me to be legal in So. Ca. when I move down in a couple years, or else I would.

Bernotas05

Looks nice man, i say paint that intake and get some FRC's if you want to spice it up a bit, other than that it looks sweet