Oil pans

[Bullitt]

Wondering what color you guys paint your oil pans. Engine color, black, aluminum, contrasting color to engine?

[W-409]

Depends on the type of the engine... Usually on Factory Stock engines it's the same color as the engine, but especially on high performance applications I paint it to replicate an aluminum oil pan or something like that... It depends so much on what the engine is and where it goes in.

[High octane]

Moroso oil pans are a gold color.

[Bullitt]

Going on a 440 six pack, red engine.

[Force]

On 2017-12-29 at 9:20 PM, High octane said:

Moroso oil pans are a gold color.

Moroso also has many silvergray pans, other aftermarket pans such as Canton, Milodon, Weiand and others are also anodized in silvergray or goldish color, painted black, cast aluminum, chromed and so on.

For what color to paint the oil pans depends on what I'm building.
If the model is a factory stock showroom car the oil pan  gets the same color as the rest of the engine if it's so on the car I'm replicating.
If the model I'm doing is a customized car I can go with chrome, gold, silver or whatever I like as it's no rules there.
If it's a race car I mostly go with a color the aftermarket pan has as most race cars don't use OEM pans, look for what's available on the aftermarket for the engine you are doing.

Edited December 31, 2017 by Force

[BigTallDad]

On show cars, many of them feature chrome valve covers; why not a chrome pan?

[High octane]

3 hours ago, BigTallDad said:

On show cars, many of them feature chrome valve covers; why not a chrome pan?

A number of them back-in-the-day did have chrome oil pans also.