Painting engine bay ahead of exterior repaint Options

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Good morning, hope it has been a good week so far.

I am going to be dropping the engine on the AZ car (one with the oil blow by) soon and will be finishing repairing all of the prior owner AC line holes with new metal etc. I will also be repairing some minor rust on the batter tray (fortunately then tray “frame” and support are in good shape.

This strikes me as the right time to reapray the engine bay, and was wondering if others have done this and any tips or best practices they have to share.

Obviously same paint color as exterior and same paint family/sourcing as will be used on exterior, but any prep and other tips?

Thanks in advance for the ideas.

[sreyemj]

I just did this. Ended up removing everything and using wire wheels followed by abrasive blaster for the corners. It was miserable.

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I just did this. Ended up removing everything and using wire wheels followed by abrasive blaster for the corners. It was miserable.

Thanks for all of the responses. The above is pretty much what I expected, but I’m wondering if he mobile soda blasting service would be able to make short work of this and avoid the misery.

I know this has come up as a topic in the past, but I’ve heard good things about people that have use this successfully. I talked to a company that does this about a year ago and I have to say it’s pretty tempting – apparently they roll up in a rig that has a generator on it and they roll the car onto a giant plastic drop cloth and when they’re done just for the drop cloth on itself and off they go.

Anyone here have experience with that ?