[Pampered-Z]

You can make some big changes with a little preplanning, effort and dollars.

Some of things I've done:

A) Hide what you can

B) Blend what you can't

C) It's gotta be shiney = polished or painted.

Some rattle can paint, wire, soidering gun, zip ties and new wire and hoses covers will do magic!

First thing I notice is all the different colors. Yellow plug wires, red, blue, silver/chrome wire covers, red and black heater hoses. Change that all to no more then 2 colors.

Remove as much as you can, Overflow and washer tank ect. Get some auto primer, paint and clear coat in rattle cans. Mask off what you don't want painted, then sand and paint. New wiper tank should be fairly cheap, I think Yearone and such sell them. Maybe an after market rad overflow to change things up?

I'd start by looking at how you can reroute wires to clean up the top of the engine and fender wells. Alloot of times the factory wires are long enough for you to easily relocate things out of view. Others you will need to add length. (When I had my 3rd gen I moved all the relays from the engine bay to under the dash.) What I couldn't relocate I routed the wires down along the frame.

Then attach the wires and hoses, I'd suggestied black for anything not near the engine, then maybe a color that will stand out near the intake/vavle covers. The colored wire covers all over the engine tend to make it look too busy in my opinion. For the heater hoses, mayne some 45 drgree elbows to reloute them or braided covers?

For the plug wires: Either use wire stands/OVC looms or get cut to fit and route then down and up to the plugs.

Vacuum lines as well, reroute then, or at least make then look straight. if you want to get real involves, replace then with polished aluminum tubing and such. I drilled holes in the back of the fender/wheelwells and routed the hood release cable, wiper hose and such all out of eye site. again, pre-planning so you drill the holes and determine where you are going to relocate stuff before you start putting down the paint.

I went a bit more extrem, After relocating stuff I filled on the out mounting holes, made plates to cover other areas etc before putting down the paint. I basically did some smoothing before painting. I'll post some pics of my 93's engine compartment ASAP.