[DeTomaso] To Paint or Not To Paint (engine bay)

[Garth Rodericks]

I sprayed mine with bed liner and it's easy to keep clean.  The original undercoating was hard to keep clean, but the bed liner is easy.  It approximates the original "correct" appearance, but looks great!
I shot mine with POR-16 truck bed liner. I sprayed it at 105 psi for a finer pebbling of the coating. Scroll through the attached file for a description and pictures of what I did.
Cheers!Garth#4033
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   Julian,
   I've heard the body colored engine bay paint is hard to keep clean but
   hadn't considered that the bed liner material was hard as well.A
   Corey

   On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Julian Kift
   <[1]julian_kift at hotmail.com> wrote:

   People I know who have gone the truck bed liner or lizard skin
   routeA have regretted it asA it seems to attract dust and dirtA and
   isA a bitch to keep clean.

   Personally,A I like the smooth look, one Pantera is painted body color,
   the other a gloss black but that's the way they came when I purchased
   them. The gloss (GT5) I intend to redo with satin on next engine out as
   I think it's the best for ease of paint maintenance.

   Painting the engine compartmentA body color would depend on that color
   for me e.g. my GT5 is white and I really wouldn't want a white engine
   compartment. Darker colors look better and in your case as you are
   going with a Coyote engine, constant maintenance fettling access and
   ensuing paint dings should not be an issue.

   Julian

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   I sprayed mine with bed liner and it's easy to keep clean.  The
   original undercoating was hard to keep clean, but the bed liner is
   easy.  It approximates the original "correct" appearance, but looks
   great!
   I shot mine with POR-16 truck bed liner. I sprayed it at 105 psi for a
   finer pebbling of the coating. Scroll through the attached file for a
   description and pictures of what I did.
   Cheers!
   Garth
   #4033
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   Julian,
   I've heard the body colored engine bay paint is hard to keep clean but
   hadn't considered that the bed liner material was hard as well.A
   Corey

   On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Julian Kift
   <[1][1]julian_kift at hotmail.com> wrote:

   People I know who have gone the truck bed liner or lizard skin
   routeA have regretted it asA it seems to attract dust and dirtA and
   isA a bitch to keep clean.

   Personally,A I like the smooth look, one Pantera is painted body color,
   the other a gloss black but that's the way they came when I purchased
   them. The gloss (GT5) I intend to redo with satin on next engine out as
   I think it's the best for ease of paint maintenance.

   Painting the engine compartmentA body color would depend on that color
   for me e.g. my GT5 is white and I really wouldn't want a white engine
   compartment. Darker colors look better and in your case as you are
   going with a Coyote engine, constant maintenance fettling access and
   ensuing paint dings should not be an issue.

   Julian

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