any tips or suggestions for painting preppeng engine block so I get a good durable finish, any preferred products???

 

Cleaning it up good is more important than the products you use. Paint won't stick to rust and old oil and dirt. A trip to the quarter car wash after it comes back from the vat, followed by spray can carb cleaner, is a must.

I use marine-grade zinc chromate primer from an industrial marine supplier (NOT a home-improvement store), and either regular "engine enamel", or "machinery enamel", or even just plain old auto exterior paint, depending on what color and so forth that I want. The top coat doesn't matter very much what it is, except that you want to avoid things (such as high-temp VHT) that dissolve in gasoline. Prep and primer is far more important.

I usually paint the interior with electric motor paint of some sort.

 

I have found that any name brand paint will hold up under summer conditions. If I paint a block that will see the winter though, I use rustoleum or the East wood rust encapsulator or por-15 or por-20.

Also, before you paint it, take most rust off and go over the block with a torch to burn anything off.

 

Regular high temp engine enamel seems to work just fine for me. This engine was painted in 2000 and the pic was taken a couple month ago.

 

One suggestion - check the paint on another similar surface first. The guy who built my 350, bought a can of "Porshe Red" from somewhere, thought it would be a nice red color like any of us would think. He painted the block, and left out of town for a week. When he returned, the dried block was Hot Fushia Pink! So now, I have a hot fushia pink motor! (hey, it was cheap)

It's got to be fast enough, I can't afford to stay around long - too much crap to hear about having a pink motor! LOL

AND - if that wasn't enough - my brother got me new plug wires for Xmas - ordered them online - a nice pretty red picture on the Internet. Also, a nice pretty red picture on the box label. BUT - when we opened the box Xmas day..... can you guess what color the wires are? YES!!!! Hot Pink!!!!

I'm destined to have pink I guess! You gotta love it!

 

That sux camaronewbie

 

hahaha,.. when you beat someone, i bet they fell pretty bad,... i mean getting beat by a girl's motor, ,........... just kidding you know

 

Here ya go http://www.taylorvertex.com/hp/8mmSp...lWireSets.aspx

 

At least they matched.

 

Well at leat that was an accident. One of my parents freinds wanted my Dad to build him a 360 for his power wagon. Mike the owner of the truck had the intake hood hardware and a few other nicknacs powder coated pink! The rest of the engine was gold. Hard to beleive Mike was in special forces.

 

That's the ones! See the hot pink!

Ya gotta love it! I gonna keep 'em - what the hell! It'll be a conversation piece if nothing else!