Block paint

What's good?

Need/want grey.

http://www.duplicolor.com/products/enginePaint/

BOOM, done.....they even have grey.

POR-15 engine paint is pretty durable as well.

I’ve also had good luck with POR-15 engine paint especially their aluminum color.

I bought some type engine paint from NAPA years ago when I did my truck engine and its held up well. I should still have it on the shelf. I don't know the color range, but I used a fairly bright blue.

I used what I think was Duplicolor ceramic type engine paint on my 80 Spitfre engine. It looks good, but its been on the engine stand now for 2+ years.

yamaha wrote: http://www.duplicolor.com/products/enginePaint/ BOOM, done.....they even have grey.

My 240SX block is painted in "New Ford Grey". Good stuff and readily available.

Cone_Junkie wrote:

yamaha wrote: http://www.duplicolor.com/products/enginePaint/ BOOM, done.....they even have grey.

My 240SX block is painted in "New Ford Grey". Good stuff and readily available.

Happen to have a picture?

In reply to Swank Force One:

I just checked my photobucket account and no luck

No worries, i think the swede got it.

I think i may go with more of an aluminum color just to match the head...

Duplicolor has a "cast" color engine paint that looks awesome.

Spoolpigeon wrote: Duplicolor has a "cast" color engine paint that looks awesome.

Duplicolor seems to have some awesome E36 M3 in general.

This is RAD.

I often use the Duplicolor clear on 4AG heads.... keeps them from getting nasty looking

Thanks for the tip!

Btw i'm picking up the head this weekend, will be in touch!

Another vote for duplicolor. And a warning about POR15. Very variable results with their products, and their engine paint was one of the worst results I got.

i just use whatever engine paint the store i'm at happens to have... i think i painted the 305 in my Camaro with VHT engine paint from Walmart, and it looks good after 2 summers and roughly 20,000 miles..

Light coating, just enough to cover, of Duplicolor has worked well for me. Only low gloss black though. Everything else just seems boastful.

Wait, this guy sells paint, too?

fanfoy wrote: Another vote for duplicolor. And a warning about POR15. Very variable results with their products, and their engine paint was one of the worst results I got.

Like everything POR-15 sells, results are heavily dependant on prep. It must be followed to the letter no if ands or buts. Try to speed up the process or take short cuts, and it will fail.

This works best when the engine is out of the car and you're not in a hurry. My ex-g/f is neurotic about this sort of thing and prepped and painted the engine from her Volvo over the course of a couple of weeks. Six years after we put the engien back in the car, the paint still looks "wet." The engine block was so clean before she painted it you could have eaten off it.

If the intent is to paint the engine in the car, then I agree about avoiding POR-15 since it's unlikely you can get it clean enough.

Ian F wrote:

fanfoy wrote: Another vote for duplicolor. And a warning about POR15. Very variable results with their products, and their engine paint was one of the worst results I got.

Like everything POR-15 sells, results are heavily dependant on prep. It must be followed to the letter no if ands or buts. Try to speed up the process or take short cuts, and it will fail. This works best when the engine is out of the car and you're not in a hurry. My ex-g/f is neurotic about this sort of thing and prepped and painted the engine from her Volvo over the course of a couple of weeks. Six years after we put the engien back in the car, the paint still looks "wet." The engine block was so clean before she painted it you could have eaten off it. If the intent is to paint the engine in the car, then I agree about avoiding POR-15 since it's unlikely you can get it clean enough.

I've had mixed results with POR15 in the past. Some were great, some were OK, some were bad. I always thought that the bad results I had with POR15 products was because of bad prep, but my last attempt with their product has changed my opinion.

I just tried to paint the engine for my speedster built with the POR15 engine kit. I went with the kit to make sure I had the full instructions and everything needed. It was a bare rebuilt engine block mounted on an engine stand. It didn't need to go in the car for weeks, so it's not like I was in a hurry. And I still got horrible results. What is really un-acceptable for me is that few spots where to paint actually peeled. Never mind the brush marks, poor color coverage and runs.

So now I have to sand it all, and try something different.And the fact that their products are incompatible with about every other product on the market means that it was the last time I'm trying any of their crap.

In reply to fanfoy:

Don't know. All I can say is what she did: Marine-Clean to de-grease, Metal Ready to convert surface rust, then black POR-15 as a base-coat, topped with 2 coats of their Ford engine red. All paint was applied with foam brushes. No brush marks. IIRC, the one tricky parts was she had to apply the first color coat when the base coat was still slightly tacky. Ditto for the subsequent color coats.

Her write-up here: http://www.millpondminis.com/Volvo/?m=200512

Another +1 for the Dupli-Color engine paint. It's what we used rebuilding engines in the Coast Guard. The oldest motor I did with it is 10 years now, and it still looks perfect.

I've had good luck with Duplicolor "ceramic". it's all about the prep work.