This morning after work I headed to the garage to do some more work on the car. Pulled out the engine, trans, exhaust, and front subframe to do some more prep on the engine bay. I always thought my car was relatively clean until I started going at it with degreaser. Apparently all that textured black stuff I thought was just undercoating was actually road grime from 23 years. Made some decent progress but will be back at it again tomorrow morning. Engine bay should be primered by end of day tomorrow, ready to be pained.

I'm going with mariner blue on the top half above the "shelf". The lower half will be flat black so it can always look cleanish.