Okay guys, I am having trouble deciding what I wanna do here. When I paint this engine I am building, the heads, oil pan, water pump, timing cover, and intake manifold will be medium Ford blue (painted the heads today). Yes, I am painting my Edelbrock aluminum intake manifold. I was thinking that painting the entire engine blue might be boring, and am considering painting the block old Ford red, or black, but I can't decide. What do you think would look good? A black block with blue heads, pan, water pump, intake, etc., or a red block with the above mentioned blue components? Keep in mind that not much of the block is visible when installed in the car, and the engine will have finned aluminum valve covers and a chrome air cleaner. Fire away...
I'm painting my heads,T cover, W pump and intake Ford blue(see pic), i alredy have chrome V covers and air cleaner. In my head it looks good Oh yeah i would do a black block.
Either Blue or black. The first engine block I put in my Grabber I had painted black ... once it was in the car it was not even noticeable ... except for the fact I had painted the timing chain cover black as well. I don't think red would look very good ...
i'm kinda partial to the blue block, aluminum intake. and accessories in chrome. also a little bit of red for the msd parts.
All blue T.L.. Some people like me CAN see the block cause we know where to look, and I think I like the "engine" blu or red. Your heads are already blue so I chose Blu.
I vote blue all the way. Mine will be blue heads and block, chrome oil pan, aluminum intake, chrome valvecovers, satin silver timing cover and waterpump.....
Hot Pink, maybe with some purple highlights. THAT would turn some heads Personally, I have been thinking the same thing, and I really like the Ford Blue block with black heads, maybe chrome (or black) oilpan and chrome covers. Are you painting the entire valve covers, or just the fins?
not so much about asthetics, my uncle had painted his engine block black and it made it near impossible to hunt down leak spots. i vote blue
My dad had a 351W built for his '78 truck a few years ago. He wanted to be able to spot leaks. He painted the engine an off white, kind of a cream color. Don't do that one. Trust me. Just don't do it. On the lighter side, paint it Chevy orange and tell everybody you have a Vega.
I vote for all black and leave the intake aluminum color. Not partial to blue at all...too much blue is overwhelming.
