Exhaust heat shield, paint?

By the way, engine looks highly detailed. Any reason why the plastic wire looms are not painted?

Cause that were not painted originally on THIS motor. Easy to highly detail, when no body has ever messed with it.

Car had like 55K original miles on it. Owned by fellow clubmembers for 20 years. Bought by clubmember from original owner.

Now this particular motor on a Los Angeles plant built 69 Dart 340 Swinger automatic with an Scheduled Production Date (SPD) of A04 (Oct 4, 1968).

BUT, I had a spare original paint '69 340 turquoise valve cover that did show that there were painted wire looms on THAT motor. I bought that years ago off some guy in Iowa. So I think there are other 69 motosr with painted wire looms.

Here's an original paint valve cover off the 69 340 Swinger with paint under the wire loom holder stand off.