Firewall body color?
 

What is the consensus on firewall color with a fresh paint job (cab completely stripped)? What if I paint it white?

Looking for some thoughts and photos of both body color and black firewalls, especially if your truck is white.

Thanks,

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Body color tends to pop better imo.

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I painted mine red, it was red originally so after seeing the paint peeking through I put it back last winter. Theres a couple more pictures on the third page of my build thread

http://i.imgur.com/55ey1ocl.jpg

- Adam

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mine before the teardown. I prefer body color

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body color (and its correct) ...

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Body color

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If I had white I would probably paint it black.

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Body color is correct, but how many of these trucks are correct anymore? Most are lowered like a honda civic or have some of those huge wheels with rubber band tires, or some other mods, so I would think just paint what looks good to you

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If I had to paint my white C30 I'd do the firewall to match..factory style.

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Thanks for the replies. I have searched and searched through engine bay photos and while some look great painted the factory color some look off to me. I think its because the majority of the factory ones have the firewall factory paint color but the inner fender-wells and core support are black, which to me looks inconsistent.

The ones which look great are the ones which are all painted the factory color (fender-wells, firewall, and everything else). some of the examples in the replies to this thread look great.

I think my choice will be to do the complete engine bay in satin black.

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Personally, the best firewalls are body color dark blue.

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Yep. Stuff in a big block, air conditioning, dual batteries, and lots of options and you can barely see it anymore!

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Mine will be much different, 400 SBC, heater delete (flat firewall) no power steering only the alternator, the engine bay will be a huge cavern and everything will be seen.

I am sticking with the satin black theme.

You can go plenty fast with a small block, this was my naturally aspirated 434 SBC in my old mustang.

http://vid1334.photobucket.com/album...pstsdgwmfn.mp4
http://vid1334.photobucket.com/album...pstsdgwmfn.mp4

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You can go --very-- fast with a small block. And just a little faster with a big block :-O