It would look absolutely amazing. Black anodized aluminum is even better, especially in a white car so clean you could perform surgery on it:
pics of your A/C delete please....
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It would look absolutely amazing. Black anodized aluminum is even better, especially in a white car so clean you could perform surgery on it:
blackened88lx
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That's my point. Why add a useless ilder pulley when you can just put a new bracket on and pivolt the PS pump up a little bit and call it a day??
cervinistang
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Gotta do that right or it'll end up looking like you just threw parts that happened to be black on top of your engine. Same goes for any scheme, really. IMO, anyway.
69clark
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Dammit 85SS beat me to it. Best engine bay look ever, by far.
Nicest bay on stangnet!
Nice to see something different, that is awesome! Who's car is this? Car I see more pics?
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blackened88lx
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Not sure who's it is, and those are the only 2 pics I have. I don't think it's someone from SN. Hopefully that's what mine will look like some day, everything I own is all black. I'm just mad someone did it before me. Come spring time there will be a lot of ceramic black tubing in my engine bay 
And my intake is almost done.
And my intake is almost done. Attachments
b88lx that intake looks awesome. Powdercoat and "plain" colors look amazing when done right.
I saw a couple more pics of that white car above, but not many. They were taken at a show BY a Stangnet member.
I saw a couple more pics of that white car above, but not many. They were taken at a show BY a Stangnet member.
I'm partial to mine cause it opens up the top of the engine keeping the accessories low.
It's the trickflow kit and just moves the tensioner for like $30. Works awesome.
Bad pic of the actual "kit" tho.
Iam planning on deleting my AC and was thinking about going this route, do you have any better pics? From the diagram it looks like the belt would rub on the water pumper with a blower car but clearly Iam wrong if its working on yours.
I don't recall who posted the pics, i think it was from a car show. It only works because it's anodized and powdercoated and the engine bay is so clean and wire-free. You can't just whip out the Rustoleum and go crazy and expect anything even slightly close to that. Also the more you look at it the more you pick out things that actually aren't black that help to break it up and keep it from being a big blob, like the heads are still bare, as is the radiator/overflow, fuel rails, master cylinder...etc.
That's my point. Why add a useless ilder pulley when you can just put a new bracket on and pivolt the PS pump up a little bit and call it a day??
+1 I agree.
That's the route I'm going in the spring. (car is in pieces currently)
And I don't agree with the power steering pump should be hidden argument, to me a brand new aluminum bracket and idler looks way more out of place in an engine bay where everything else has 20 years worth of wear on it. The power steering pump looks like it belongs there.
69clark
Founding Member
Thats my point. The more you look at it the more details you see that show it was a job well done and very well thought out. This is the kind of attention to detail that sparks my interest.
25thmustang
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stang22
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I don't think it would be that hard. Probably a lot easier than most of us "polish everything-hide every wire" freaks. That white e-bay is very unique though.
Tim
While it might not take as long vs. polishing everything, it wouldn't be simple at all. Well, not quick and easy anyway. Simple is relative
stang22
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While it might not take as long vs. polishing everything, it wouldn't be simple at all. Well, not quick and easy anyway. Simple is relative
Polishing everything takes a long time, but welding up any engine bay really isn't very easy. If you like easy metal for days, more power to you. The reason that e-bay seems like it would be harder is because it is white and you can see everything. They are all the same to me, but I guess a lot of it depends on the quality of work you OK with looking at everyday. It took a year for me to do mine, so you can't pull any wool over my eyes.
Tim
25thmustang
Mustang Master
I mean difficult in the sense that your NOT doing that with the motor in the car, your not doing that without yanking everything out of the bay, and your not doing that without a good knowledge of the car. Moving brake lines, wiring, etc he has a lot of quality effort into that engine bay!
Can't wait to make my friends look like that,
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Can't wait to make my friends look like that,
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Polishing everything takes a long time, but welding up any engine bay really isn't very easy. If you like easy metal for days, more power to you. The reason that e-bay seems like it would be harder is because it is white and you can see everything. They are all the same to me, but I guess a lot of it depends on the quality of work you OK with looking at everyday. It took a year for me to do mine, so you can't pull any wool over my eyes.
Tim
I think you read me wrong...or I read you wrong. Someone said that is an easy thing to replicate, I say no way. Doable, yes, but easy enough for anyone to be able to do it? no
As far as this setup vs. polished, i'm talking about the engine build only. The bays, basically, are the same: welded and smoothed and painted. Equal in that respect. Instead of spending time polishing the components, his were coated or anodized. Still had to come up with a great color scheme to make it all work. My point was THIS part won't take as long as if he polished everything, because polishing (duh, you know more than anyone!) takes a whole lot longer to do
Just making everything black would've looked like ****, but notice he has the right things black, and the right things not black.
The roll bar integrated through the strut towers is a sick touch too
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