Welcome to Club Hot Rod!  The premier site for everything to do with Hot Rod, Customs, Low Riders, Rat Rods, and more. 

  •  » Members from all over the US and the world!
  •  » Help from all over the world for your questions
  •  » Build logs for you and all members
  •  » Blogs
  •  » Image Gallery
  •  » Many thousands of members and hundreds of thousands of posts! 

YES! I want to register an account for free right now!  p.s.: For registered members this ad will NOT show

 

Thread: Painting engine
          
   
   

Reply To Thread
Page 1 of 2 1 2 LastLast
Results 1 to 15 of 19
  1. #1
    midnight1957 is offline CHR Member Visit my Photo Gallery
    Join Date
    Feb 2006
    Location
    Elgin
    Car Year, Make, Model: 57 Studebaker Hawk
    Posts
    32

    Painting engine

     



    I am going to paint my 62 Corvette the original red using PPG paint. I plan tp paint the car, under hood and chassic the same color with the same paint.
    I would like to paint the engine with the same paint, will it stay on or do you have to mix anything special to make it high temp paint.
    Thanks,
    Wade
    Drive it like you stole it

  2. #2
    FMXhellraiser's Avatar
    FMXhellraiser is offline CHR Member Visit my Photo Gallery
    Join Date
    Mar 2004
    Location
    Charlotte, NC
    Car Year, Make, Model: 46 Chrysler,49 Ford,66 F100,68 Lincoln
    Posts
    2,835

    You need high temp paint. I remember seeing on the show "Trucks" Stacey using PPG paint to paint the engine but it wasn't regular paint, it had the same paint code but if I remember correctly it was for high temp. If not then it will bubble and flake off. We just got a Vette back in the shop where the hood bubbled because the guy is trying to run a 11.5:1 comp ratio engine on the street as a daily driver and it's overheating so in turn is getting that fiberglass hood scortching hot. So if the hood is doing this then so will the block of course. PPG should be able to color match it for you and get high temp. I like a car where the engine compartment and engine are painted the same as the car. Should look very good when your done!
    www.streamlineautocare.com

    If you wan't something done right, then you have to do it yourself!

  3. #3
    FMXhellraiser's Avatar
    FMXhellraiser is offline CHR Member Visit my Photo Gallery
    Join Date
    Mar 2004
    Location
    Charlotte, NC
    Car Year, Make, Model: 46 Chrysler,49 Ford,66 F100,68 Lincoln
    Posts
    2,835

    Oh your in South Carolina, I just noticed that... How far are you from Fort Mill or Rock Hill?
    www.streamlineautocare.com

    If you wan't something done right, then you have to do it yourself!

  4. #4
    midnight1957 is offline CHR Member Visit my Photo Gallery
    Join Date
    Feb 2006
    Location
    Elgin
    Car Year, Make, Model: 57 Studebaker Hawk
    Posts
    32

    Painting engine

     



    Hellraiser, I am about 50 miles from Rock Hill, there are 2 Elgins in SC, one is in Lancaster county and one is in Kershaw county, I am in Kershaw county, near Camden if you know where that is, have you ever been here?
    Thanks also for your reply, thats what I thought.
    Do you own a body shop?
    Thanks again,
    Wade
    Drive it like you stole it

  5. #5
    lt1s10's Avatar
    lt1s10 is offline CHR Member Visit my Photo Gallery
    Join Date
    Aug 2004
    Location
    rustburg,
    Car Year, Make, Model: 1997 CHEVY.S10 LT1-350
    Posts
    4,093

    Quote Originally Posted by midnight1957
    Hellraiser, I am about 50 miles from Rock Hill, there are 2 Elgins in SC, one is in Lancaster county and one is in Kershaw county, I am in Kershaw county, near Camden if you know where that is, have you ever been here?
    Thanks also for your reply, thats what I thought.
    Do you own a body shop?
    Thanks again,
    Wade
    i'm not saying fmx is wrong, you cant go wrong there, but look at my pic. and the white el camino with the white motor is the same paint i painted the car with. i painted over red and it was driven daily, the blower turned pink in about 2 yrs. the blower gets awhole lot hotter than the motor. the red conv. motor is reg. paint all so.
    Mike
    check my home page out!!!
    http://hometown.aol.com/kanhandco2/index.html




  6. #6
    pat mccarthy's Avatar
    pat mccarthy is offline CHR Member/Contributor Visit my Photo Gallery
    Join Date
    Apr 2005
    Location
    bay city
    Posts
    10,546

    i have painted many more than a dozen engines with enamel with harder and two part urethane. never had any bad thing stop me from using it again . hi mike

  7. #7
    Matt167's Avatar
    Matt167 is offline CHR Member Visit my Photo Gallery
    Join Date
    Jan 2004
    Location
    Prattsville
    Car Year, Make, Model: '51 Chevy Fleetline and a Ratrod project
    Posts
    4,990

    I know a lot of people that paint engines with regular non hi temp paint. I'm going to use hi temp Dupli Color black paint on my 200 I6 when that time comes, just because we don't meet OSHA regulations for spraying paint with a sprayer. I'm also going to shoot a coat of the hi temp high gloss clear too.
    You don't know what you've got til it's gone

    Matt's 1951 Chevy Fleetline- Driver

    1967 Ford Falcon- Sold

    1930's styled hand built ratrod project

    1974 Volkswagen Super Beetle Wolfsburg Edition- sold

  8. #8
    Dave Severson is offline CHR Member/Contributor Visit my Photo Gallery
    Join Date
    Jul 2003
    Location
    Madison
    Car Year, Make, Model: '67 Ranchero, '57 Chevy, '82 Camaro,
    Posts
    21,160

    I've used DP primer and base coat clear coat, single stage, and even Imron on engines... If the surface is prepped properly it stays on fairly well. I hate the limited color selection in the rattle can hi temps and have had real good luck with it staying on....
    Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, Live for Today!
    Carroll Shelby

    Learning must be difficult for those who already know it all!!!!

  9. #9
    pat mccarthy's Avatar
    pat mccarthy is offline CHR Member/Contributor Visit my Photo Gallery
    Join Date
    Apr 2005
    Location
    bay city
    Posts
    10,546

    my friend made cast valve covers i have used many gallons of PPG dp90 and dau75 clear on cast alum and mag on the cast covers and rims he made

  10. #10
    FMXhellraiser's Avatar
    FMXhellraiser is offline CHR Member Visit my Photo Gallery
    Join Date
    Mar 2004
    Location
    Charlotte, NC
    Car Year, Make, Model: 46 Chrysler,49 Ford,66 F100,68 Lincoln
    Posts
    2,835

    When you guys used red, did it not turn to a pinkish or orange? Anyways, I live in NC but RIGHT near Lancaster. I work at a hot rod shop up here next to Carowinds (Carowinds exit in Fort Mill).
    www.streamlineautocare.com

    If you wan't something done right, then you have to do it yourself!

  11. #11
    51deluxe is offline CHR Member Visit my Photo Gallery
    Join Date
    Sep 2005
    Location
    Elizabeth City
    Car Year, Make, Model: 1952 Chevy Styleline Special Sport Coupe
    Posts
    30

    Quote Originally Posted by FMXhellraiser
    You need high temp paint. I remember seeing on the show "Trucks" Stacey using PPG paint to paint the engine but it wasn't regular paint, it had the same paint code but if I remember correctly it was for high temp. If not then it will bubble and flake off. We just got a Vette back in the shop where the hood bubbled because the guy is trying to run a 11.5:1 comp ratio engine on the street as a daily driver and it's overheating so in turn is getting that fiberglass hood scortching hot. So if the hood is doing this then so will the block of course. PPG should be able to color match it for you and get high temp. I like a car where the engine compartment and engine are painted the same as the car. Should look very good when your done!
    the reason the paint was bubbling on the hood is because it wasnt prepped correctly during the first paint job, fiberglass constantly gasses and if you apply heat, it does this at a faster rate. there wasnt a good enough barrier between the 'glass and the paint.

    we painted a 427 with HOK paint, with no additives. clean block very well, prime with epoxy primer, base with orion silver, mid-coat with candy apple, and clear....best looking engine i have seen i think.
    Last edited by 51deluxe; 11-27-2006 at 09:49 AM.

  12. #12
    Itoldyouso's Avatar
    Itoldyouso is offline CHR Member Visit my Photo Gallery
    Join Date
    Jan 2006
    Location
    fort myers
    Car Year, Make, Model: '27 ford/'39 dodge/ '23 t
    Posts
    11,033

    If anyone tells you that engines have to have hi temp paint they are wrong. I have painted many engines with epoxy primer and various top coats, they hold up great. (17 years on my '27, still shines bright red)

    This is how all the pro shops paint them.


    Don

  13. #13
    FMXhellraiser's Avatar
    FMXhellraiser is offline CHR Member Visit my Photo Gallery
    Join Date
    Mar 2004
    Location
    Charlotte, NC
    Car Year, Make, Model: 46 Chrysler,49 Ford,66 F100,68 Lincoln
    Posts
    2,835

    51Deluxe, you could probably be right. I don't know how it was prepped or painted since I didn't do it and it was done before I ever worked there. When the guy brought the car in though, the hood was BURNING hot to where you couldn't barely touch it without burning yourself. I figured that since it got so hot that it reacted underneath the paint and since it's fiberglass and not metal, it made it bubble like that.
    www.streamlineautocare.com

    If you wan't something done right, then you have to do it yourself!

  14. #14
    lt1s10's Avatar
    lt1s10 is offline CHR Member Visit my Photo Gallery
    Join Date
    Aug 2004
    Location
    rustburg,
    Car Year, Make, Model: 1997 CHEVY.S10 LT1-350
    Posts
    4,093

    Quote Originally Posted by Itoldyouso
    If anyone tells you that engines have to have hi temp paint they are wrong. I have painted many engines with epoxy primer and various top coats, they hold up great. (17 years on my '27, still shines bright red)

    This is how all the pro shops paint them.


    Don
    i agree! it has to be clean.
    Mike
    check my home page out!!!
    http://hometown.aol.com/kanhandco2/index.html




  15. #15
    HOTRODPAINT's Avatar
    HOTRODPAINT is offline CHR Member Visit my Photo Gallery
    Join Date
    May 2005
    Location
    tucson
    Posts
    3,043

    Here is my experience.

    I've used two part urethane paints on engines without a single problem.

    The only reds I've ever had turn pink or orange are "cheap paint". Quality paint won't fade that badly....and I live in the ultraviolet capital of the world! :-0

    When was the last time you saw bubbled paint on the hood of a Corvette?.....probably never? The problem is in the paint application. One of several possibilities is that they used lacquer spot putty, which will blister under a urethane paint.
    Last edited by HOTRODPAINT; 11-27-2006 at 07:50 PM.

Reply To Thread
Page 1 of 2 1 2 LastLast

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
Links monetized by VigLink