What can I do to neaten up my engine bay??

[Six6siX]

So far these are the ideas I've got:

-spray manifold cover with high temp paint (as it's starting to look a bit tatty)
-repaint cover and spark plug cover (again looking a bit worn)

and generally clean up dust and stuff.

What else is there to do? And what colours would look good on the stuff to be painted? I was thinking matt black for the manifold shield and red/silver for the cover?

 

[Hawk Tuah]

Get a battery cover.

Clean all the pipes.

 

[TripleT]

I'm all for a bit of fettling here and there but this is one thing that I can't understand. How often do people see your engine bay?

Apart from giving it a clean and doing the things you mentioned I don't think there's much else you can do. But I wouldn't bother personally.

 

[Six6siX]

Get a battery cover.

Clean all the pipes.

Battery cover, ta. What about swapping pipes for coloured ones seen it done on a lot of cars but is that too much effort for just looks...?

I'm all for a bit of fettling here and there but this is one thing that I can't understand. How often do people see your engine bay?

Apart from giving it a clean and doing the things you mentioned I don't think there's much else you can do. But I wouldn't bother personally.

Well, I guess it just makes sense to me - the rest of the car is clean, why not the engine bay? Along the same sort of lines to those who do ICE installs or similar - why bother keeping your boot clean and tidy - hardly anyone sees it

 

[Hawk Tuah]

You could replace your pipes. But you may find the cost doesn't justify the end result.

Samco' aren't particuarly cheap.

 

[[TW]Fox]

I find closing the bonnet works.

 

[Hawk Tuah]

How about taking the manifold shield off and polishing it to a mirror finish.

 

[Six6siX]

I find closing the bonnet works.

But thats like covering up a dead body. No one can see it, but you know its there and dread the day someone opens the bonnet and finds a dead body...

 

[Zip]

Remove the Do not touch burny hot hot cover

The camry never came with one and i prefere it comepared to others ive seen with them on.

 

[ethos]

Clean all the plastics with something like "bumper and rubber care" from AG... that can make a big difference.

Clean all dust / grime off with some gunk or similar degreaser. You can apply it to the cloth and apply... if you decide to spray over the engine make sure you cover anything electrical you can see including sensors etc...

 

[Phil W]

A good clean never goes a-miss.

Auto Glym Engine & Machine Cleaner, and a Pressure Washer.

Before you do it, put WD40 on all electrical terminals and connections, and you will be fine, i've done it dozens of times.

/edit - And once its all dried properly, apply Auto Glym Instant Tyre Dressing, and leave it to cure on its own.

 

[Teknobry]

If you want to spend some £££'s, get samco or SFS silicon hoses. Not cheap though. I've replaced all my coolant hoses and the main intake boost hose with them.

Also took the rocker cover off, painted and lacquered it.

If I were you, clean your pipes up, get them looking nice and black again. Get your heat shield polished up and it'll look a treat.

 

[Phil W]

If you want to spend some £££'s, get samco or SFS silicon hoses. Not cheap though. I've replaced all my coolant hoses and the main intake boost hose with them.

Also took the rocker cover off, painted and lacquered it.

If I were you, clean your pipes up, get them looking nice and black again. Get your heat shield polished up and it'll look a treat.

That yours?

Pretty impressive sleeper

 

[loltim]

*Clean the rocker cover with Gunk engine degreasant but be careful, it can fetch the paint off. Alternatively, sand down and paint with wrinkle paint.
*Sand down (with v fine paper) the Honda and VTEC lettering on the rocker cover, then polish with any metal polish.
*Clean all tubes/rubbers and plastics and then use a bit of tyre shine or something.
*T-cut/polish the spark plug cover. You shouldn't need to paint it unless its battered.
*Wire brush/sand and then spray manifold heatshield with any matt black high temp paint.
*Wire brush heatshield bolts



My effort:

 

[wassap]

Just clean it mate, get some tar and grease cleaner and wipe it all down and hose it off, no need to go overboard as it will be mucked up again in no time.Waste of time tarting the bay up if its a everyday car, if its a show car then its a different story.

 

[Jonny69]

-spray manifold cover with high temp paint (as it's starting to look a bit tatty)
-repaint cover and spark plug cover (again looking a bit worn)

and generally clean up dust and stuff.

Ask yourself a question - is it going to make the car go faster? If not, don't bother

 

[paradigm]

Yep, just clean the black pipework, and then give everything black a coat of autoglym bumper care (green goo). Works wonders:

 

[bigchez]

Buy a tubular manifold. Get it ceramic coated.

 

[Nitro_Junkie]

Ask yourself a question - is it going to make the car go faster? If not, don't bother

simple truth

also, that cold air intake being stuck behind the headlight and battery box won't be doing a lot of good, my friend got a Prelude with one in the same place, open the bonnet after a short run and it nothing but warm air behind there, get something like an AEM one that routes the intake back into the wing

 

[Lopéz]

I often paint rocker covers

Cheap, effective, makes me feel warm inside.

Some of my past efforts: