Making the engine look purdy....

just paint your block as you would any thing,
CLEAN, prime, base, clear..... painted mine to match body when i rebuilt it, no problems what so ever. dont have any oil leaks though
as that will stain the paint.

get some ceramacoated headers, they dont blue and its almost chrome, i dont know if they make em for your truck, but couldnt hurt to find out, i had some that cost about 250 a pair

headers for a 3.0 ranger are EXPENSIVE.

Originally posted by standardbyker88



what color is the truck gonna be? cant you use something that is a different color, like silver, to accent it? then just do killer prep and paint it with high temp rattle can. its how we do ours. not show rigs, but it works good. base clear can take some pretty good heat though. and what about powdercoating the parts?

I wish it was that easy. My truck is bright atlantic blue. I have found a high temp rattle can darker blue and one called "Ford Blue", but it was too light. I don't want to even think about the time and money it would take to powdercoat the BLOCK. Plus even places that powdercoat don't always have a good match to my paint. The blue is going to be my main color and as an accent color I am going to use chrome so the block has to be blue. I guess I am just a perfectionist.

Yes, the JBA headers are $500! I'm thinking to get my stock manifolds jet-hot coated has to be cheaper. Thanks for the replies guys.

Mark

bump....anyone else paint their engine block?

I painted my 455 in my 51, but I just used high heat engine paint from Summit. It worked out pretty good. Went for the old school look anyways.