Clear coat or not

I've got an over the top powder coating guy finally after doing this way too many years, so the game plan is just leave it as is for the summer hopefully it will be derivable by the end of August just so he get a little enjoyment out of it before I do the major tear down and remove and reseal the engine at which point a lot of parts including the intake will go down to Mike's for the blasting and coating. We've done engine blocks and cylinderheads on show cars and rods with exposed engines the look is killer but I'm not going that crazy.
Thanks again for the input