Engine Painting w/o Disassembly & Paint Type

i painted the boys with regular urethane auto paint the same stuff i did the outside of the jeep with,seems to be holding up . i wouldnt think that it would be much hotter than the water in it.

 

I painted mine with Dupli-Color Import Auto Spray Hampsted Green Metalic 8800906 which is an almost exact duplicate to the original Dauntless color with metalic. My engine paint still looks very good after about 4 years. This particular paint may be hard to find now but it is worth looking for. BTW this originally was a Honda car color.

 

I also used duplicolor stuff from auto zone several years ago in a rattle can. My color was bluick because its a buick engine. Works fine with no issues. I used high heat paint on my headers. It said to not use primer. I used primer. they are very rusty now.

 

I vote green

 

Aluthane works pretty well for such things. Only one color though.

Hirsch has a large selection of "engine enamels." ENGINE ENAMEL-hirschauto.com

I suspect you could go to the Home Depot and buy a quart of their plain enamel and it would work fine. Quarts of urethane from TCP Global are about the same price as the Hirsch paints. Search Results

 

On headers and manifolds what has worked for me is to first sandblast/glass bead blast them so there is some texture for the paint to "grab" plus to clean them. Then I lightly preheat them, enough to steam off the surface moisture with a propane torch. Then paint them. I've had good luck doing this, but it isn't permanent. Just lasts a whole lot longer.

 

i too am spray canning it as much as i can and maybe hand paint other areas. but I removed most of the things around the engine so far, wire brushed it and painted them, working on block next then underside when I replace seal in oil pan. Im priming it first and then painting all with high heat paint using Orange red chevy color.

 

Hirsch is good stuff, I like their Miracle Paint over POR15 for rust cover.

 

If I recall, there was a thread around here, duplicolor Hempstead green is discontinued a year or so ago, thus the scarcity.

Rustoleum makes a hammered metallic green (reminds me of newer RCBS reload equip) that may be close enough as a replacement.

 

I put a nos 134 in my Jeep that I found still in the box. The motor I took out I wire wheeled to bare metal and clear coated it. I pulled the oil pan, valve covers, and Timing cover off, and had them heat stripped, found that the timing gear was bad and replaced it, then polished them with 1,000 grit water sand paper and clear coated them. Polished the exhaust with a flapper wheel and painted high heat black, made and exhaust with Auto parts U-bends, and a Sportster muffler. I put it on a run in stand, with a radiator and use it for garage art. Looks cool, but I have not run it enough to see how well the paint is going to hold up. I used Rustoleum Ultra Clear, it dries real fast, smells like finger nail polish, and dries real smooth. T tried to post a picture, but can't do it?

 

just put vaseline on the parts of what ever you don't want paint to stick to... worked well for me when I did my T98 / D-18.