I spent a lot of time this winter cleaning up my engine bay. rerouting heater hoses and fuel lines, cleaning up and putting black mesh over the a lot of the wiring, new ARH headers and hyd clutch setup to go with the new TKO 600.
I thought I would share a couple pics. Only thing I am still truing to decide is if I should powder coat the air cleaner lid black?? or go with a different lid?
Very nice indeed. Not knocking the K&N, but I think the other air cleaner looked great. The lines pop and looked good with the accent line on the valve covers. Very clean though. Great job.
Great looking engine bay!
I did a similar setup with mine but it looks like your alternator and A/C pump are on opposite sides compared to mine. What brand of A/C did you use? Mine is a Vintage Air.
The air cleaner looks good the way it is to me. If you think it is too much, you could paint the grooves black and leave the top ridges alone. I think it would look great either way. Defiantly envious.
If you wanted to see what your cleaner lid looks like black, go get a can of black plastidip from your local auto parts store. Spray it on, if you don't like it, just peel it off. There's tons of info / videos to review if you're interested. Good luck!
If you wanted to see what your cleaner lid looks like black, go get a can of black plastidip from your local auto parts store. Spray it on, if you don't like it, just peel it off. There's tons of info / videos to review if you're interested. Good luck!
Looks great Pat. I like either the K&N you switched too, or something black, or just a plain chrome one. Didn’t you have a black one that matched the valve covers? Either way great job, on a great car!
Thanks Dave!! I will tinker with the black one. I did have the matching billet specialties top but was not wild about it, it just did not have a muscle car look to it.
I would go as close to OEM on the air cleaner as possible. You did a nice job cleaning up the engine bay. Mine looks like a circus came to town a parked in my engine bay.
Liking your detail alot ! Great taste all around. I am doing a similar look and hope it comes out as nice. Yes the air breather, what to do. I'm not there yet either. The K&N looks pretty non, I like it. The other idea to powder coat the alum and leave the strips polished might do it too...
Thanks for posting photos of your engine bay. I like having mine set up so when I open the hood I get a nice little extra buzz..
I went with a vintage look... That's a 454 by the way.
I'm trying that air cleaner heat shield, its suppose to route the hot radiator air away from the air cleaner. Probably nothing but snake oil.. I remember Smokey making something like that for his Chevelle or one of his Pontiacs..
Thanks for posting photos of your engine bay. I like having mine set up so when I open the hood I get a nice little extra buzz..
I went with a vintage look... That's a 454 by the way.
I'm trying that air cleaner heat shield, its suppose to route the hot radiator air away from the air cleaner. Probably nothing but snake oil.. I remember Smokey making something like that for his Chevelle or one of his Pontiacs..
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