Coolest blue engine paint?

shotsy · Jan 31, 2006

I used gray and love it

chepsk8 · Jan 31, 2006

I found a source many years ago in New Jersey for engine paint, "Bill _________" (can't remember his name), and it was the dark blue shade in a can, very thick, and was indestructible.

bnickel · Jan 31, 2006

i use the duplicolor DE-1606 with their engine clear. looks awesome and should keep it from fading to the lighter color. i don't like the lighter ford blue at all, it almost looks like baby blue. ford motorsport used to have an even darker blue a long time ago called SVO dark blue, that was an awesome color but i don't know if it' still available though. might check the latest mo-spo catalog and see.

geordie · Feb 1, 2006

At the rate I'm making progress my engine will never turn again...........but it will make a good coffee table for someone.

Ford dark blue.............it's the only way to fly.

Edbert · Feb 1, 2006

geordie said:
At the rate I'm making progress my engine will never turn again...........but it will make a good coffee table for someone.

Ford dark blue.............it's the only way to fly.

Sounds familiar

I used corporate dark blue too. Sometimes it looks lighter than other times, in person is about matches the anodized aluminum and spark plug wires (Ford Motorsport). Just posting these shots of the same motor to show how different the color can appear depending on lighting.

BRIGHT

MEDUIM

DARK

OUTSIDE

Robdogg67 · Feb 1, 2006

Edbert, thanks for the contrasting pics. What brand and # did you use, spraycan or brush? Did you do a clearcoat?

Edbert · Feb 1, 2006

It is a Duplicolor rattle-can, do not remember the number. The short block was purchased from DSS, they cater to the 5.0 crowd so it had a professionally applied layer of Ford Corporate Black (LOL) on it. I degreased the crap outta it, masked it with aluminum tape, and shot it in my garage. The paint is a few years old but has not been sujected to corrosives or heat yet.

I've no presonal experience with them but I have heard bad things about clearcoats, they tend to get discolored themselves and make the aluminum stuff look bad.

65ShelbyClone · Feb 1, 2006

I used a clearcoat on my intake, heads, oil pan, and pullies. In the back of my mind I knew about the possibility of it turnning yellow, but my cylinder heads looked worse with dirt stuck to them. The varnished gasoline from a leaky carb has done more damage to my intake's appearance than the paint so far. We'll see how it fares in the long run.

Stangninjak · Feb 1, 2006

Heh I guess then you guys are going to tar and feather me then My engine is Yellow, Black covers, and accented with chrome parts. Also have the yellow spark wires. I'll get some pics up soon.

My 65 coupe is Screaming yellow /w a black vinal top. Getting ready to get the new long block in, and I think its going to look ace in there

xoxbxfx · Feb 1, 2006

this may be overkill to some of you guys...but here the motor I painted for my dad.... it will match the exterior paint in a flat black bay...

Thats an old pic, it now has a chome powdercoated intake, acc brackets, tensioner and soon to be chrom pc valve covers.

thehueypilot · Feb 2, 2006

Here's an engine w/o the aluminum bling.....AFR 224 heads & Victor Jr. manifold.

19stang66 · Feb 2, 2006

wow, now thats a lot of blue on an engine

mustangdave · Feb 3, 2006

xox, what kind of paint is that?

xoxbxfx · Feb 3, 2006

thehueypilot said:
Here's an engine w/o the aluminum bling.....AFR 224 heads & Victor Jr. manifold.

nice motor...i personally wouldnt have painted the heads since they are aluminium or the intake but that should be a pretty sweet little motor.

BDT 1967 · Feb 3, 2006

I know that my engine may not hold a candle to all of yours as far as looks but it has won me a few car shows, and i am plenty proud of it.

This is the engine that was in the car when i purchased it.

This is the engine after I rebuilt it with new paint.

This is the engine after i got it back in the car

This is just another view of the same engine, like I said this is nothing compared to the engines that I have seen on here but hey what can I say I am a college student with not a lot of cash I did what I could.

thehueypilot · Feb 3, 2006

xoxbxfx said:
nice motor...i personally wouldnt have painted the heads since they are aluminium or the intake but that should be a pretty sweet little motor.

It makes for a good double take at the drag strip after ripping off a 7.40 because with all the engine accessories in place it looks "bone stock".

xoxbxfx · Feb 3, 2006

mustangdave said:
xox, what kind of paint is that?

its sonic blue... had it mixed at the paint store. Its a metallic so it has some reflectiveness in it..

some newer pics with some of the powdercoat work done.

Jester powdercoated the intake...could ahve been smoother but its a bad casting on the intake and I didnt waste time smoothing it... looks 1000x better than the nasty **** that it looked like

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