AJP8 paint scheme

[julian64]

Been spending most of today sandblasting the fire damage off my AJP8 4.7 engine project. Obviously most of it is bare blasted aluminium. So the next question is what colours do I paint it.

Car is knightfire red so orange is out . I was thinking sommat like the old john player special colours.
Not sure polishing the aluminium is very lasting in an engine bay, so up for ideas. Remember its a dark red car. Itll have an AJP8 logo on the fuel rail and black whirlwind pipes on short 4.5 induction pipes.

[jammy_basturd]

Black, red and polished metal detailing?

[JensenA]

TVR Purple, Black and Silver.

[julian64]

Shame cos you need an engine picture to colour in to see what it'd look like.

There was one engine where almost every component was painted a different colour. It looked like a collection of lego bricks.

[clive f]

heres mine with the black and gold combo, I thought at first I had to much gold, but once its in the car with the airboxes on the only gold seen is on the air inlets.

[BLUETHUNDER]

clive f said:

heres mine with the black and gold combo, I thought at first I had to much gold, but once its in the car with the airboxes on the only gold seen is on the air inlets.

That looks a work of art

[cerdad]

what is the exhaust system on the car ,it looks stainless.and forward facing

[JensenA]

cerdad said:

what is the exhaust system on the car ,it looks stainless.and forward facing

The engines fitted in to one of those funny Griff things

That is nice Clive, very nice looking engine

[clive f]

cerdad said:

what is the exhaust system on the car ,it looks stainless.and forward facing

it goes forward as there is no room in the griff to run it straight down and back as in the cerb.
its all in stainless steel, with equal length stepped headers,going into 4 short secondry pipes, then 2 pipes down under the car, ( one pipe per bank of cylinders).

JensenA said:

The engines fitted in to one of those funny Griff things

cheeky sod!

[HarryW]

Orange rocker and timing covers does it for me every time, but its more beautiful on the inside

[julian64]

HarryW said:

Orange rocker and timing covers does it for me every time, but its more beautiful on the inside

I think in my case orange engine and red car would be an eye opener too far.

As for the inside, I suppose it depends what you are after with your engine.

I obviously don't know enough about these engines to say whether any of the stuff they are changing needs changing or not. It sounds good.