So along with datsungarage's recommendation, what paint BRANDS should i look for for best results? Im going to paint the external of the block, the t-stat housing and water inlets and maybe the valve cover. I sandblasted the water inlet and outlet and o.0 it looks SO good although now i have to repaint them >.< I do have black high temp paint for the exhaust which I am gonna do tomorrow after blasting it. Should I paint the front cover? Right now my block, pistons, front cover and oil pan are being hot-tanked and i'll check on them tomorrow after a full 24 hour soak. Tell me what you think...

 

Yep... you use high-heat engine paint. But it's going to melt right off your exhaust manifold, so don't waste your time on that part.

 

: / you think it'll melt off? I think the stuff I have is just the 1200 or maybe its 1500...anyways i was planning on painting the

water inlet
water outlet
(nvm the front cover, its pretty sealed well enough)
OUTSIDE of the block

maybe I should paint the exhaust and have it wrapped? (or just have it wrapped?)

 

I painted my exhaust with high temp exhaust paint and it hasn't melted off yet!

 

Nope... I KNOW it will melt off. But I guess you can waste a can to find out for yourself. If you want to protect your exhaust mani & pipes, get them jet-hot coated, or go SS pipes.

 

n/a's will last a lil longer. My L28ET exhaust mani melted it off in about 5 minutes.

 

ya i wont waste it on the manifold. Maybe I'll just wrap the exhaust to keep the heat in, and layer the bottom of my heat shield with heat wrap to prevent heat soaking the injectors. I dont have a hood cowl so i imagine it'll get pretty hot..

 

Huh. I put it on a good few months ago and it hasn't even started to fade yet. well now my engine is toasted so it doesn't matter

 

I used the dupi-color GM blue on my L28et block, front cover is bead blasted and clear coated.



closest to the stock datto blue that you can get on the shelf


its a bit dirtier but its not melting to peeling off

 

Hmm, I used some high temp header paint on my Clifford header and it didn't melt off, it just kinda like faded to a gray, but looks pretty cool actually lol

I just use the regular Duplicolor Engine paint, same with my dad, and the only times it melts off on the exhaust port extensions on our Pontiac motors :P

I will definitely have to look into that GM Blue though, I like it. lol

 

^^^ aye aye aye... in case no one reads...

thetremendousti has an L28ET motor. I'm simply telling him that it's going to burn off because of much higher EGT's.

Fresh high-temp paint on the L28ET exhaust mani:



after:

 

I really doubt that can hit 1200F... if it can that worries me a bit

 

I really doubt that a cheap $4 can of spraypaint is going to withstand high-heat for a long time. I've seen it fail first hand (and I know Snw and many on HBZ have too)... but what do I know.

http://www.duplicolor.com/products/engine.html
Daily driving... intermittently? Racing (or full throttle) on a hot day... intermittently.

No one believes me, so waste away.

 

http://hondaswap.com/forced-inductio...t-turbo-37487/

yes... they are talking Honduhz, but you get the idea:

 

Well first off I didnt use dupli-color, I used VHT

Very high temperature header paint, Silica Ceramic Coating 1300-2000F
http://www.vhtpaint.com/flameproof.html

 

Fella's I would personally recommend POR-15 (google it) they carry a pretty good selection of high temp colors and their paints look great. I painted my brake calipers with their ford red last fall and looks like I painted em yesterday, my buddy used the rest of the can on his block and it is gorgeous. Or you can rattle can using this method. Blast it clean, couple of "primer" coats with some high temp BBQ paint, (black will darken your top coat, white will keep it nice and light.) then you can spray it with what ever you want. I used a nice shade of blue and haven't had any problems yet after a year and I have a L28ET and she does get hot! High temp silicone paint will work on the exhaust, but why bother? Just header wrap that sh*t, its more efficient than paint and cheaper than powder coating. Take it or leave it, thats what's worked for me.

 

youd be surprised how hot some stuff actually gets

 

I sandblasted my front cover, and now its all just bare metal, should I coat the inside with something? I bought some 500* Blue paint to paint the block/outside of the front cover, but what about that glossy look it had before, how do i do that?

 

no, if you paint it or something, itl eventually flake off and contaminate your oil

 

not to mension the inside of the front covers going to have oil in there movin arround. it'll soak the metal and prevent corrosion from starting up.

edit:
fixed and yes it does corrode, it just doesent turn into iron oxide

 

Aluminum doesn't rust

 

Rust no, corrode yes. Look at your stock aluminum wheels. Bare aluminum corrodes very quickly.

http://www.keytometals.com/Article14.htm

 

thats why I clear coated all my aluminum parts after bead blasting them

 

so i should clear coat it?

 

if you are asking about the outside of the front cover
and want it to look like bare aluminum

than yes give it some clear



the outsides of all my aluminum parts are clear coated because I like them looking like aluminum, the clear keeps them from corroding