I like and use on some street BB motors the blue used after 1972/1973
In the end the only thing that matters on the engine paint color is that the customer likes it

I think it would end up being a grey-ish brown, lol

Black definitely makes more power, but factory colors look good too. I like clearcoated for anything aluminum.

I say BLACK!

My vote would be black, but at the end of the day all that matters is that it’s going to be an even bader b!tch than it was with the sb/turbo combo. I’m eager to see the results!

Randy

I hope you're right but it's a tall order competing with a turbo and it definitely set a high bar (pun). At the beginnings of the swap/sale the talk was only 'how to reach 10.0 for NSS legal competition' which again takes some doing at his weight. ???Luckily??? We have colluded to try to eek a little more out of it, in the spirit of faster is funner.

Black

Black is for suspension parts and body panels. Mopar Turquoise all day long. Sorry Sean

Turquoise. After all it's just a warmed over 343 horse 383. I'm slowly working into DVW show and shine. We even talked about waxing engine parts.
Doug

Black is great if you want to make it hard to see a leak or problem.
Bare aluminum is great if you like fingerprints & stains for that patina look.
My racecar motors get a light industrial grey - learned that from the ex-Penske TA Javelin I worked on - aluminum included.
Everything else gets the appropriate factory color, and I like to downplay the hot-rod items; that started back in the street-racing days...
Not saying everyone who doesn't do what I do is wrong, though; just 'splainin' my logic...

After 20 years I got tired of seeing so much raw aluminum and shiny stuff so I'm switching to the super boring, done to death factory colors.

(I've never been bored with it, and to me it looks like it belongs there)

Red would be different, and maybe a tip of the hat to the poly engine, but turquoise would be better.
The black motor plate helps it blend in a little.

WOW Rich that looks REALLY sharp! And yes, I'm liking a painted motorplate now. But again this is just a suggestion form for Dizuster. He did come by and look at things so he has a better handle on what he wants to do. I'm not painting it, I'll just be prepping, probably 'shipping' it to Gdemon and then reassembling. I tried my best to help eliminate multiple colors during the build but, that definitely adds to the cost in a few ways.

I am one of those boring dudes also. I don't like all of the raw aluminum and polished bling. So, I stick with the stock look. Sort of....

i just painted a set of wheels with rustoleum "farm and implement" "massey-ferguson" gray spray bomb.
that stuff covered very well, and turned out way nicer than i could have imagined.
i might just spray an engine with that to try something completely different.
says on the can it is a "superior" [] formula that is "excellent" coverage, chip resistant, color retention, and "more" [whatever that means].
the wheels i painted were blasted and etch primed, but still had pits.
that stuff made most of the pits unnoticeable, except for the really large ones, but they will be covered with trim rings anyway.
it only took two medium coats to cover, and it flowed out great !