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I just said to h**l with a certain tradition since the car wasn't original anyway.
I said I'm painting the engine black with hi-temp. engine paint. The
intake too. Gloss Black on the block and Semi-gloss on the intake.
Then, when the paint dried, I lightly sanded the code numbers on the heads and
intake and they show up silver on black and stick to the theme of mostly
black and silver with a little red thrown in for
good measure.
The older paint gets, the quicker it fades.
Even in a few years you would be able to tell the difference betweeen on painted
that spring (in the summer) to one painted two years ago. There is the
factor of heat or no heat too. It will look its best before you ever start
it. Then it will smoke and any slight amount of any kind of grease, oil,
lube of any kind (the motor man made no effort to clean my motor before he
started the engine cold with no water in it for the first time)
will get soot on your paint and the
paint will already be different depending on how
much "stuff" is left on the engine paint. The engine will smoke a lot, a little, or anywhere in-between. If it is not cleaned at all the correct answer
will be a lot. Notice I didn't say "might be". There's a reason for
that. I learned the hard way.
The more you drive your car, or the motor is
started at least to warm-up temp. the more the paint color will change. It will vary with the brand and
even the batch in some cases but like has been said already, who is going to
look at an engine so close that the Mopar color is the exact same shade of the engines that left the
factory in an EXACT color. I think in this case close is close enough and
perfect is better but you can make it anyway you want and make yourself
happy.
The old motor smoked too, but it was wiped off as
good as we could before because some of the guys there had seen it. But it
was 40 years later (on my birthday yet) and the engine was finally going to run
and have the heads retorqued and dyno'd and put back into the car. I was
too excited to think straight. I remember
now. Maybe its the s**I'M smoking. Just kidding.
Chick
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Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 5:37
PM
Subject: Re: Paint
Haha! I wasn't complaining about price. If it's good I'll pay the
price...get what you pay for (sometimes). I only ever used VHT black on
headers, but that color green looks darker than what's on the motor from the
factory. If that's the color I remember looking at...I looked at so many now I
don't remember. I went ahead and bought 2 cans of Mopar paint so it can be
close..
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I wonder too.
Not bashing you or anyone else. I just
find it kind of ironic (and funny) that when I find on a whole good site
(not just the one item) that site was "too expensive".
Then when I find a second site, it is
(admittedly in a round-about way and almost because it was never
really said this way) too cheap.
No, I'm not mad, upset or anything
negative. I'm just ROFLOL. It kind of made my day.
Chick
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 5:03
PM
Subject: Re: Paint
on that website...i wonder how close chrysler green is to
what mopar sells....its 5 bucks cheaper...but i wonder if it lasts/looks
good
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Stephen Andrachek
<s.andrachek@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Here's a link from a place that sells engine paint and
hi-temp paint. I'm only sending the link with these paints
listed.
Have a look at the whole site if you have the time.
Lots of paint and stuff for pickup truck beds that some folks like
to coat the bottom part of the bottom most part of their cars with to
protect them from stones. Also car paint of all colors in the
site.
link: http://www.tcpglobal.com/spraypaintdepot/DC-engine.aspx
Anyone have a link where I can order the Chrysler
turquoise spray paint for the motor? Ima try and clean it up the best I
can without having to pull the engine and paint it....probably
IMPOSSIBLE. but ima try!
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