Some of you may know that I am in the middle of building my 1UZ. While I have it apart, I possibly wanted to paint some parts such as throttle body, intake manifold, valve covers, misc.plastic parts, etc. I want some thoughts and possible pictures of other peoples ideas and color schemes. I am not going to paint the actual engine bay, just the parts. Any color scheme would be great. I have a pearl white car. Thanks

 

Chrome everything.. aha. I like purple for some reason.

 

I suggest polishing everything, if you wan to take the time, and do it.
takes a bit of work, but the end product usually looks really nice.

comparison of parts after and before polishing:

 

^^that looks great, but its such a PITA!!! But I have to agree, polished parts look great, especially on 1/2jz's.

 

Polish ftw...I polished by hand my upper intake mani, throttle body, water bridge, intake pipe and both valve covers on my 1uz. I now have them off to re do it to a mirror finish. Its def worth it!!

 

Get them powder coated. the finish will look much better than any paint u decide to get. Its a lil more pricey but its definitely worth it. look for a cheap powder coater on craigslist or something

 

Any Pictures?

 

I really appreciate the ideas.. I think I like the idea, but what is the best way to do it, or method? I also like the fact of painting some of the lower parts, just to make it look a little more appealing.

More pictures!

I also agree about the look of the polish on the 1JZ/2JZ.

 

havent finished the mirror polish yet, but i may just chrome them!

 

How would you go about polishing it? It looks nice

 

I have done mirror polished several parts before... I did mostly 7mgte stuff back in my mk3 days
valve covers etc

 

Wow that looks really sweet.

 

Wow that does look great! I wish I had the time to polish some of my 1uz parts.

 

I may go with the polish look, its growing on me.

 

Polished parts do look great.....but they are alot of work to maintain. You may want to consider powdercoating them, or having them chromed.