best engine paint

[krazy_texan]

Hey guys i was just wondering what you guys have found to be the best engine paint, i am going to be painting and assembling the engine here before to long and i want to know what holds up the best on top of that it is a 292 that is going into a 67 gmc did they paint them blue or where they orange, i know that on some of the 60-66 trucks that i have seen blue and orange i6s that where factory but i dont know which year they quit using blue

[FormerMember]

I am using dupli-color maximum temp. Good for 1200 degrees.

Not sure if it's the best, but it's available.

I went with Chevy orange.

[cdowns]

i use the POR15 engine enamel with excellent results

[Palf70Step]

From what I have hear, the way to go is with the POR paint. Your hometown boy TXFirefighter uses itr a good bit if I remember right.

[roj2323]

orange is chevy, blue is pontiac. at least that's what i've allways been told.
ondrew

[Desert Rat]

I looked at several six cylinders in the last couple days. from impala, nova, chevelle and truck. Most were orange except a couple in 73 style trucks and late 70's Novas. I go chevy orange or black on any chevy engine.
My favorite engine paint is VHT engine enamel chevy orange.

[fastwillie 696969]

vht chevy orange

[super72bb]

Por 15 The stuff is incredible. The black parts are all powdercoated but the engine is por 15 engine enamel, and the manifolds are painted with POR 15 hight temp grey.

[70GMCer]

I use Plastic-kote or Dupla-Color. Always worked good for me. The only blue I6 cyls I've ever seen were on the old 50's 235 I6 that were blue and were called "The Blue Flame". Someone correct me if my mind went a drift on that...

[70c10]

Super72bb- that looks awesome!

[muddpile]

I've actually seen guys have excellent results brushing on (not spraying) plain old Tremclad. I'm going to do it on my motor this winter and I'll let everyone know how it works out.

[zeeklu]

POR engine paint works great. Chris

[thejoker]

super72bb that is sooooooo sweeeeet! I hope to be looking similiar to those pictures in a couple months.

[68gmcdually]

I used all Bill Hirsh products on my engine, tranny and frame and I am quite impressed. I even met the man behind the name in Hershey this fall and he is very genuine.

[Tx Firefighter]

I think I've used them all at one time or another in the past before I discovered POR15. Once you use POR15 engine paint, you'll never use anything else, I guarantee it. Carb spray and gasoline and such won't touch it. I used to get so tired of having a perfect engine ruined by a fuel leak or something similar. POR fixed that.

['68OrangeSunshine]

Chevy Engine Orange is vintage correct for a '67 292. That's the color of my original 292 engine in my '68 stepside. Also the color of a '67 block I rebuilt. I think GM started painting engines blue again in the late '70s. In '63 they painted the 230s and 250s blue and the 292s were alpine green. I think this was a carryover from the older L6s -- 235/261s. Since the blocks looked the same on the outside, Chevy painted the larger displacement 261s green to tell them apart. When the L-22 series came out, they painted the first 292s (close to Detroit Diesel-) Green. By 1967 GM was painting all truck engines orange, thanks to Lee Iacocca, I hear.
Dupli-Color has a hi-temp engine paint and primer. Up to 500*F. I stripped the sheetmetal [valve and side covers, oil pan, etc,] to bare metal, let it heat up in the AZ sun, and sprayed it with the hi-temp primer. About a week later I followed the parts up with the Chevy Engine Orange color. Still looks good.
The paint has a ceramic component and they say running it up to temperature does the final cure.