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I bought my engine paint at Advance Auto.
Been using Wesleys Bleach for more than 40 years. Two good tips that you
passed on.
Chick
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Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 6:57
PM
Subject: Re: Paint
Check this link out (Alpine Green)
Autozone or Advance auto
parts carry Plastikote engine paints for 5 or 6 bucks a can and it don't take
forever to dry or over spray everything like the Mopar paint
does.
If you want a REALLY good
soap to clean with....get Wesleys Bleach White.
http://www.plastikote.com/products/Specialty/Engine-Enamel.html
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Stephen Andrachek
<s.andrachek@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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
----- Original Message -----
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!
Sent from my iPhone
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