Getting ready to start assembly of my new 5.7 and trying to decide what color to go with on the block. I would like to see a few different pics of members rides under the hood. My TPI setup is polished and I am gonna have the chrome valve covers, timing cover and possibly the pulleys too. Thinking of painting the heads with the silver Alumablast from eastwood.
All comments an ideas welcome

 

black or silver would look good. just dont go edelbroc orange

 

id say pink but i already saw some people do that... white? or... neon green?

something radical.

maybe stripes, i saw all kinds of wild paint jbos actually, stars and stripes, animals, etc.

 

Im thinkin black or pontiac blue, like the earlier 400 ponchos. Even thought of red. No Orange, too common.
But am open to anything, still like to see some different pics

 

pink?!?! what are you nuts? i think the options are black grey or blue. most anything else doesnt look right. pink!!!?

 

I'd pimp pink....I looked for it when I was building ym engine but couldn't find any locally. No want wants to f*ck with a pink motor

 

Dark Gray.

Alumablast won't set off the chrome very well.

Blue... maybe if its dark enough. GM & Chev. blue
might work, but are very common.

Pink would require some very large fuzzy dice off the
mirror, tassels in front of the 'visors, and a
Freddie Prinze bobble head in the rear window.

 

Poncho BLUE!!! stick it to GM for getting rid of those kick *** blocks.

 

Silver.

Sure black looks real good, but I myself decided to paint my replacement engine, silver. If you have a leak, you'll see what it is, right away, you'll be able to tell, oh yeah oil or anti-freeze or .. just overspray armor-all.

 

the look on someones face after getting wopped on by a pink engine=priceless lol

 

my block and heads are white...

 

Orange or Black

 

MY MOTOR IS CANDY APPLE RED AND MY PULLEYS ARE GUN METAL AND ALL BRACKETS ARE BLACK MY TPI AND LT1 INTAKE R BOTH POLISHED. I SAY GO WITH BLACK CHERRY OR SOMETHING DIFFERENT THEN BLACK,RED ,BLUE. I WAS THINKING OF POWDER COATING MY INTAKE. WHAT COLOR IS UR CAR?

 

I would go black.

 

What's the colour of your car? Is it the same car that's in your sig?
If it is, my first choice would be black with clear over it to make it shine, yet it wouldn't be too outlandish - not too bling bling if you know what I mean.

-Andrew

 

I saw a guy that had a yellow block. Looked pretty good.

 

Old school detailers trick

 

Thanks for all the input guys. Anyone got any underhood pics. The car is Metallic Flame Red and is the car in my signature.
Not a chance in he!! that my block gonna be pink. Would be cool to smoke someone with a pink pig under the hood, but not my style. I kinda like the black cherry idea, but also like my Poncho blue. I've built three of those 400big blocks

 

BLACKCHERRY W/FLAME RED COMPONENTS AND POLISHED INTAKE AND VALVE COVERS. ILL TRY TO TAKE SOME UNDER THE SHEET PHOTOS CAUSE I JUST REPAINTED MY MOTOR AND HAVENT PUT IT BACK IN YET!

 

Yeah, that sounds pretty sweet. Thanks

 

painted mine orange, shows any leak really good.

 

91 camaro.. maybe it's just me, but the link doesn't
get down to anything specific.

Unholy.. any dark color that co-ordinates w/ the car
color and highlights the chrome components will be
very efffective. Any "pink" variant is like "a boy named
Sue" -- only works once.

 

I've always wanted to do a block in Chevy Orange... I love the color for some reason.

 

Its all about old school, go chevy orange.

 

here try this, it should work

 

orange, or flame red.
Silver looks good.

Black will hide your inevitable leaks, PITA.
Paint it with the freeze plugs out. They look stupid the same color. The contrast pops nicely. My block is orange, heads are silver, then some chrome above it.
https://webdisk.ucalgary.ca/~jmknopp...tml/engine.jpg
This is the first rebuild - painted freeze plugs I had to replace them after, so they are no longer painted.

 

I would say paint it the stock colour. I am not even sure what the stock colour is personally. Isn't there some heat transfer advantage if you paint it black or some other dark colour. I know chrome is bad for keeping heat in motors especially Chrome Oil pans because it keeps heat in the oil. Of course this could easly be an old wife's tail. If it isn't how much heat could it really transfer off.

 

My block I'm using for my current build is currently black, but I'm thinking about going through the trouble of painting it red like my car. I've got black heads for it, so I figure a red block, black heads, and some chrome valve covers would look pretty cool, but I dont know. Never seen many red blocks for some reason?

 

I always look through the Summit catalogue and dream about owning one of the GM Performance Parts crate motors, and looking at the 572 pic they have in the catalogue just makes the motor look deadly powerful. It's a bright red block with aluminum heads and bright red valve covers, aluminum intake manifold, black oil pan and aluminum water pump. I know it's a big block, but why not try to make a small block resemble a big block, I mean you could tell them it's a big block, after you beat them you could turn around and tell them it's a small block. I'm pretty sure Jegs sells the valve covers for small blocks , too...



edit: I forgot you have a Pontiac, maybe find some valve covers that have "Pontiac" or "Firebird" engraved, or find some you like and powdercoat them the same color as the block...

 

Painted my old 305 chevy orange, didn't like how dirty looking it got.

The 350 is black.

 

Poncho Blue!

 

My block and heads are grabber green with bolt ons purple and chrome, got sick of seeing chevy orange on every chevy at the local cruises. Will try to get a pic up soon.
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Here is a pic of it from two years ago, there have been a few changes made since then, but still the same colors.

 

I kind of like the green there. And that car looks familiar. Where are you from?

Personally I always like the Chevy orange on a Camaro or the Pontiac blue for the Firebirds. Or the plain stock black. I never really got into the color of the motor. As long as it looked good. But I have always liked a white or yellow motor. But you would need to keep it really clean. I think for your car though. A nice red or black would look good. You just don't really want the color of your motor to clash with the color of your car. Like a green motor with a red engine bay. Adam :-)

 

I just painted the top end o the IROC with Duplicolor red Metalcast paint. The Formula I painted the block black with Metalcast gray on the valve covers and TPI and all the brackets are painted aluminum color.

 

Not finished, still have a lot to clean up as u can see but the intake man is gunmetal and so r the pulleys brackets are black and tpi is polished aluminum with gunmetal tags will post more soon!

 

Im into dark colors....soo, I like the GUNMETAL above.....the Metalcast Red, and also the BLAWK....<~~~Black said funny.

I want mine to be Either RED like the metalcast or Dark Charcoal with Red outlines in the bolt hole and freeze caps...to set off the Charcoal. Then I am getting my fuel and brake lines painted also....mine as well if Im painting everything else.

Oh and good luck on choosing. Surely you'll be happy with whatever you choose.

 

I'm diggin the metalcast red valve covers. Maybe the metalcast grey on the block, the mc red vc's and a polished TPI and accessories. May set the car off nice

 

I wouldnt use the Metalcast on the block or heads. It can handle some heat but its not rated high enough to be used on those parts. It does ok on the valve covers but the red on my IROC is discoloring a little bit.

 

bet bbq flat black on everything would look cool, be a b!tch to keep clean though

 

anyone have a pic of a silver block? im thinking of doing mine in silver