I'm going to be painting my engine, looking for an opinion

[Chythar]

I'm going to paint the engine to match the Stang, black and red. I'm using the G2 Engine Paint, it's a brush-on application. I have black Jet-Hot coated exhaust manifolds, and I'll have red spark plug wires and a red distributor cap. The block will be black and the GT40 heads will be red with the three "lines" and "GT" painted black. I won't paint the upper & lower intake manifolds right now, nor the accessories themselves. Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures.

My question is this: should I paint the timing cover & water pump, or leave them as-is? If I paint them, should they be black or red?

I also wanted to paint the two front accessory brackets. Black or red? I'm thinking black.

 

[BlownFiveLiter]

I personally like seeing the accessories still being the bare aluminum color. The brackets look good painted/powdercoated, but I think you have to be careful with the alternator bracket, making sure that it has a good ground. The timing cover would look good painted, if the waterpump is still silver. It's just something to break up all the color under the hood.

 

[RIO5.0]

Your colors are along the lines of mine...Here are a few to on the w/pump and such FWIW..

 

[Chythar]

Rio, that engine looks really sweet! I like how the bare timing cover looks against the black block, so I'll do the same on my engine. Yeah, I know exactly what I'm going to do.