A pic of your current bay would help me. Without seeing it, I would suggest satin black since it would be easy to care for. Or, if you have another color in the vehicle's color scheme such as interior color, paint it that color.

 

Don't paint them, get them powder coated instead. Powder coating will last longer and look much better than paint. As for color, I would do black.

 

I know you said no silver/chrome but I had to throw in my 2 cents... I plan on painting all my accessory brackets with the same color... It's Duplicolor DH #1606 with ceramic (it's sometimes hard to find at the parts store...) I used it on my lower intake and am working on painting the upper whenever I replace my exhaust manifold gaskets later this month..

Stock lower intake... and painted intake.. I used an etching primer from Walmart and just the Duplicolor DH 1606 paint (no top coat)

Front of the intake in painted only.. the rest is the stock powdercoating finish.. this was before I painted the valvecovers.

This angle is to show how reflective and shiny the paint really is (valvecover).. it is pretty tough paint too..

 

i'll powder coat them, very reasonable prices. can do any color, i did mine in reflective chrome. i like the look i would say that or black. the brackets need to be sanded down, bare rough cast aluminum comes out kind funk with powder coat.

 

MYLITTLEHO - Do you have any close up shots of the parts after paint?

 

I'll second the powder coat. I have all mine done, intake and my valve covers. I like clean and original colors under the hood so I have my cobra upper, lower, and the water neck a ceramic chrome. All brackets are flat black and valve covers are a Ford Gray. Heres a pic where you can see em all. Everything was bead blasted, coated base and a powder clear for around $125 bux which is a still. Esp. when you don't have to touch it and it'll last 10x's what paint will last. Heres my powdercoat guy.
www.brasoncoating.com
Also notice I painted the power steering resovoir. It looks alot better than the orange look. The overflow is coming off soon so thats why I didn't paint it.

 

MYLITTLEHO - Do you have any close up shots of the parts after paint?

I'll look on my computer to see if I have any better shots.. I think 99% of them were taken in the garage during a head gasket swap.. I'll see if I can't get some outdoor pics..

 

Yeah I powdercoated all the brackets and polished the AC compressor...

 

I'm going with powdercoating also. Paint will chip and crack with the extreme temps under the hood. Those "Ceramic" Duplicolor paints are okay, but powdercoating is the best.

 

I like the stock silver look also. There are some nice engine bays in here.

 

more pics of that Duplicolor paint.. This is 6 months after it's application.. I will probably end up pulling the valvecovers when I respray the intake and clear them with eastwood co. diamond clear.. so they will be easier to clean..

 

powdercoating !!!!!

here's pic of mine . i powdercoated brackets,pulleys and valve covers in black wrinkle finish.

I can also powdercoat very cheap.

send me a pm.. for powdercoating..

 

I painted mine with some VHT hitemp engine paint. gray.

 

For a white car on which you want no shiny stuff, I say medium/dark gray, or flat black. Simple, clean, nice, and it'll contrast against the white of the bay.

 

more pics of that Duplicolor paint.. This is 6 months after it's application.. I will probably end up pulling the valvecovers when I respray the intake and clear them with eastwood co. diamond clear.. so they will be easier to clean..

.50 cent for the guy who can spot the vacuum leak here

 

.50 cent for the guy who can spot the vacuum leak here

far right black hose thats about an inch long

you can send that to my paypal account:rofl:

 

0 vacuum leak.. the vacuum line that is cut isn't used or hooked to anything.. the stupid previous owner did a hack job of taking off the emmissions on this car. The pipe leading to the back of the head had a spark plug clamped into the hose plugging it off, the air pipe going to the cats has a spark plug plugging it also.. along with the vaccum line in the bottom picture that is resting on the air inlet pipe.. that has a SCREW shoved down into it..