Thread: Painting the intake or not

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I bought a new intake for shirleys mustang. The one she has now is a polished Parker Funnel Web. Two things wrong with it,

1.-It is way too much of an upper rpm flow manifold for her driving style. She is a crusier, 2500 rpm max driver, whereas I am a bruiser, hold it to floor for as long as I can, driver. She wants to have it more driver friendly for her.

2- It is polished and is a lot of work for here to keep looking nice.

So anyway, I bought this nice unpolished dual plane and am thinking of having it painted the car color with matching painted finned valve covers. But I am not sure how that will look. I might add that all of the engine bay panels are now polshed aluminum but they can be painted as well.

What do you guys think of the monochromatic engine look?
John

PS, here are the differences in manifolds