Should I repaint my sparkplug cover?

[supra saiyan]

I just finished removing all the decals under the hood, changed all the blue silicone hoses to black, as well as stripped blue paint off all the metals and polished them instead. The blue engine cover will be carbon fiber in the future, but the company that makes the piece seems to have fallen off the face of the earth. So I am left with a choice right now of either leaving the cover blue, or painting it black. What do you guys think?







This is what I had before:


All opinions welcome, but please no bashing. Thanks.

[DAMON]

looks much better- I saypaint it gloss black/match the exterior black of the car- would look awesome!

[RedPhoenix]

black.

in further note I <3 trd strut bar

[TokyoRacer]

Gunmetal w/ blakc lettering, if you could.

[midnightmach]

Black! and if you could with white lettering!

[Tuner571]

^Yes, black and white lettering would look sweet.

[Epsilon]

I say get it polished.

[repinS]

Stock ftw.

[supra saiyan]

Originally Posted by Epsilon

I say get it polished.

I can't polish it because it is plastic; but there is a billet aluminum upper timing belt cover coming out that I plan on getting. It will go well together with a carbon fiber sparkplug cover whenever someone decides to market it again.

Originally Posted by repinS

Stock ftw.

I don't know if you've seen a stock one up close, you would think that it was black, but Toyota made it some dark green color, kinda like a turtle's shell.

Thanks for chiming in everyone. I will probably paint it black when the weather gets better.

[WhiteRabbit]

im not digging that blue at all....gloss black FTW!

are you able to chrome plate it? wonder it itll be able to take the heat...

[bigbird]

i vote u sell the car to me and avoid the decision all together ...i say gloss black .

[Netforcer]

I say red... even tho its not any of ur choices... i think red would stand out well among the black

[2slo5sfe]

I was thinking red too, it will highlight the blue on your cam gears.

[supra saiyan]

I finally painted it and bought this aluminum cover from Ebay because all black did not look right. It still needs some polishing. The piece looks like it was CNC machined out of a solid piece of aluminum at least 1.5" thick, very nice quality for $100 compared to the $300 price tag others sell the same cover for.

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Much Better!!