So I painted my engine bay black and want to paint my engine and tranny black too. Does anybody have any pics or are there any disadvantagous of chosing that color?

 

might take longer to see an oil leak?

 

paint retains heat will keep it hotter and will bubble the paint

 

read this

http://www.sacskyranch.com/paint.htm

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i dont think that a black engine in a black bay would get that hot.

think about it....our engines are liquid cooled not air cooled. they do not rely on radiant heat absorbed by the air flowing around the engine.

go out and rip on your car hard...pull over...feel your valvecover. it wont burn your hand. im sure your skin will flake up before some paint.

i would probaly just have all my exaust componets coated or wrapped.

ALSO, if your bay is clear coated it will retain some reflectance
(i would think).

i was planning on painting my bay black with the block,head,tranny,chargepipes,and intake manifold gloss black.

chargpipes and intake manifold will be heat blocker coated and my ramhorn,turbine housing,and downpipe will be ceramic coated.

anyone else think it would get hot enough to have adverse effects on the paint of the bay???

 

black is known to absorb heat. like sunlight.

not so much retain heat.

 

i hope you know that with all that blackness, you wont be able to see your engine unless it smiles.

and dont even get me started on black trannys.<<<LOL!!!

 

 

Haha, whatever you say.....

Black things get hot when LIGHT hits them because they do not reflect as many light rays as things that are white. Much of the light is absorbed as heat on the black surface, while the white surface reflects most of the light and absorbs much less as heat.