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I think I have opened my hood a grand total of 1 time since I bought the car. What ya gotta open it so much for that requires all that time and effort to dress it up? Just curious not putting yall down . I just don't have any need to open my hood. Gets opened at oil change time by FORD. Other than that it's never open so I personally don't care what it looks like under there.
My ex-wife said when gearheads get together they always look at each other's engines, it's like dogs sniffing each other's butts, a way to say "hello, you're my kind". I did mention she is an ex, didn't I? ;)
 

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bdm219. That looks great. Under the hood is the finishing touch.
 

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That's beautiful, did you do the painting yourself? Where did you buy the correct color paint?

I can't stop looking at this. Not sure it'd look as good in any other color. The radioactive green really works.
 

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I respect your opinion but you have to remember, some feel the exact same about going to car shows. For some, it would be why put that much effort into getting a car ready for a car show, when all they are going to do is drive it from point A to point B. I would say it is all about being an individual and making "your car" have your own personal touch. I love all the personal touches that people do to their vehicles.......heck I even borrow some of their ideas from time to time.

I can respect your thoughts on it but disagree. My car almost 100% ends up in every meets pictures line up and i get many many compliments and i never once put my hood up. My opinion but i actually hate all the hoods up cant see the car... just a row of open hoods blocking the view of the beautiful cars... its an engine so what. I want to see the lines and the flow and the design not a bunch of open gaping view blocking hoods.

again not putting anyone down everyone like what they like. Just not for me.
 

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I can respect your thoughts on it but disagree. My car almost 100% ends up in every meets pictures line up and i get many many compliments and i never once put my hood up.
Nice that your car gets recognition, but :dunno: . . . maybe things are just different in your neck of the woods.

I get out to two or three car shows a year (just to walk around in, not as an entrant) and what I consistently see is people giving the closed-hood cars a brief glance - barely breaking stride - before moving on to look at the next car. If I wasn't seeing this in other people, I'd write it off as just me wanting to see more about the car than I'd be able to see at any other time should its path and mine happen to cross. But if I'm not going to see any more of a car than I would if I was to park next to it at the Home Depot or the Best Buy, I'm going to feel that it's simply being 'parked at a show' rather than 'shown'.

I'm not sure which direction I would take if I was to actually enter a show. I'm not particularly interested in showing off a stockish engine with only a cold air kit & tune - it really isn't much to look at - but I think I'd crack the hood open just enough so that onlookers would be able to tell that there really is a V8 under there rather than a V6 with a V8-appearing exhaust system. Give the show-go'ers reason to pause and maybe they'll pick up on the more serious stuff I've done.


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I really dislike the engine cover on my 2019 GT . There are so many for 2017 and down. I can’t find anything for the gen 3 Coyote
Chances are that the earlier Coyote buyers felt the same way until the aftermarket got geared up to produce their own takes on what the engine cover should look like.

From the other pictures I can see where you might not care for the OE engine cover, or perhaps any of the offerings that will probably show up.


Personally, I'd rather see a nice set of DOHC cam covers and an intake manifold than any cover. Like in the old days when it was carburetors and valve covers, show me an engine, not what it's being hidden with.


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I think I have opened my hood a grand total of 1 time since I bought the car. What ya gotta open it so much for that requires all that time and effort to dress it up? Just curious not putting yall down . I just don't have any need to open my hood. Gets opened at oil change time by FORD. Other than that it's never open so I personally don't care what it looks like under there.
You should open it alot more often to check your oil. the coyote is known to consumes some oil.
 

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I HATED my engine cover as well.

Bought and installed the engine cover for the '19 Bullitt. Problem solved. Minimal coverage for the fuel rails and easy access to everything for the motor.
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