unless you want to be exilled from the mopar comunity it MUST be body color! when i see a car that the trunk or engine compartment has been painted flat black or trunk has been sprayed with specal paint i just walk away in discust chrysler was the only company to have a body color engine compartment and it needs to stay that way! dgc333 i have a lime green 72 duster and the engine compartment looks killer lime green, sound to me like you need to use this new invention called wax