What's yalls opinions on painting iron heads a silver or aluminum color? I have the engine painted red right now as I did years ago and it looked great. However i have grown to like how aluminum heads look with a different color block. If I do this it'll be a red block with silver heads with aluminum intake ...with ceramic coated headers. I k ow it'll look good but I dont want it to look fake or cheap. Have you ever seen cast iron heads painted silver and if so did it look decent?
now that does look good. I will for sure paint the heads silver now. So do you go plain silver or metallic or what? Looks so nice.
Mine aren't painted, natural aluminum. Shade is a matter of preference, I have some chrome that looks almost like aluminum(definitely isn't chrome in appearance). It's on the hard lines mounted to firewall.
I would suggest the...aluma blast paint. it looks like glass beaded aluminum. to me that would give them the aluminum head look. I used it on all my show bike cast aluminum parts. I even had people question..."how do you keep that blasted aluminum that clean"? I get mine from a local machine shop, they have the good stuff.
Too late lol. I wasnt trying fake an aluminum head but rather hoped the color combination would look good. I found some really nice paint and it looks nice so far.
I've done it to heads and intakes.. looks faked but color combo's turn out nice. Needs to be a coordinated effort without 7 different colors being used like the 80's when anodizing took off and people got carried away. Lol
Here's how it turned out. I sprayed the aluminum intake too so it would all match. Valve covers...carb...and headers match as is. I love it!!!
Looks good! And after it heat cycles many times some of the pigments will slightly darken about a 1/4 shade and the shine will reduce a tad more too. Sometimes too chromy or shiny makes the other weaker points stand out more if that bling bar gets raised too much. Lol Hopefully you used a higher temp engine enamel?
Just my two cents .... Why not have your "manifold" ceramic coated silver .. We've done it on several cars and it looks great .. Cometized Chip