My personal taste is for a nice semi-gloss engine compartment...it seperates it from the rest of the car, and I feel the semi-gloss (or even flat black) showcases the engine more...kind of like a good frame around a picture.

Of course the main thng to consider is that it is your car, look good and hard, think it over and do what you feel will look best with your plans for the car...also consider if you are going to be popping the hood open to show off the engine...what effect do you want?

I will recommend this though....lose the idea of doing rattle can, I've seen it done before and even for a daily driver that you don't plan on showing, it still looks pretty cruddy...get a proper gun and do it right...even a amatuer job with a gun will look better than a streaky spray bomb paint job, at least in my opinion anyway.

Great thing about cars, 10 people can have the same car, the same idea...and you will still get 10 different interpretations of that same idea.

Mike

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