10-28-2013, 06:33 AM
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Motor City
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Re: Black engine color?
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Originally Posted by '68OrangeSunshine
One more possibility -- your engine was painted on a Friday afternoon, and the paint crew [ after a couple of pitchers at lunch] -- ran out of Chevy Engine Orange, so they sprayed the whole frame and engine in Low Gloss Black until some body got back with the correct Orange paint. They could not stop the production line for anything but a safety issue. Just a theory, of course.
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No.
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Originally Posted by bruceman1968
They were all orange (1970 SB). The engines were painted at the engine assembly plant, then shipped to the vehicle assembly plant. If there's no orange on the motor anywhere then it was most likely hot tanked and repainted during a rebuild. If the block was decked, the machinist either left the engine ID code intact, or re stamped it. Any chance of a pic of the engine ID stamp?
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Yes.
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