Painting the 93's engine bay

[Neil350]

Motors going to be out of the car and going to have the entire engine bay repainted. This will be done by a paint shop to it'll be a base and clear paint job. The first choice is obviously have it re-shot to the original bright red. This would mean when the rest of the car got painted it would need to be the factory color. Next option would be to paint it black and clear it. This would give me options if I wanted to paint it a different shade of red than the factory. Not sure, I have about two weeks to decide. I am pretty torn because when the rest of the car got repainted it would be cool to do a red but maybe a different red. The different red which is more orange would be get the car reshot in a custom Pontiac Carousel red like Trans Am depot did.




Pontiac Carousel red by Trans Am depot

[popo8]

Im a big fan of black motor compartments. Two reasons... one.. it goes with any exterior... 2nd... a shiny clean motor pops like a jewel in a jewelry box.

[Neil350]

I ended up finding a Pontiac High Performance article about that cars paint, sounds really expensive, it's a custom pearl. Yeah, the factory red may be it. The black engine bay would be cool though, most the time I see black engine bays it's usually a rattle can job. Like you said it does with everything.

[dawdaw]

Ya agreed. .. buddy did his ta really nice but in a single stage enamel in black..which turned out great. .. and Damn it made everything look good...

[popo8]

Gloss black enamel on a friends new toy. Just love black motor compartments.

[95albinobird]

every time i see black engine bay i think it's a color change they didn't pull the motor for.but i also think matte black look's like it's in primer after body work going to get painted.
i guess i'm old school like that.time's are a changing...lol
and TRANS AM DEPOT makes the 5TH gen the way PONTIAC would have done it SWEET!!!love their work from the t/a and the judge.if they do the 442

[The SRZ]

Any updates?