hello,tried totally auto,they will not have any for a couple weeks at least,needing a can for touch up,so who else? please

I think the brand was dupont...or duplicolor...whoever the local discount auto parts guys stock.

they have an entire shelf of engine paint, one of the colors was "hemi orange" and it's what I painted my big block with. to me, the color was darn near perfect...but not sure how it would actually compare if it's sitting next to REAL factory engine paint.

thanks Tom,i'll give the autozone a try if nobody chimes in with a vendor

Use the same brand and color code type that it was painted with originally.

Every brand is a slightly different color.

https://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/show...&PHPSESSID=

I used the duplicolor hemi orange from the parts store on my junk,that way all the touch up stays the same as time goes by.

rustoleum has a single stage hemi orange if your wanting a qaurt to spray on the engine,it works very well and holds up good.

done the engine in the mud truck with some tractor paint that was a hemi orange..or close to it anyways,its tuff as nails,we went ahead and painted the whole truck with it.

the plasticoat is ok but I had better luck and had to touch up less often with the duplicolor.

remeber with any paint..result will vary.

just noticed your title also

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Use the same brand and color code type that it was painted with originally.

Every brand is a slightly different color.

https://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/show...&PHPSESSID=

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And along that line of thought MOST of them are "pretty" but not the 100% correct shade of orange the factory sprayed, so if you are trying to match original paint you'll likely need a special custom match made up to your original paint, a match is not very likely with an off the shelf mix.

If you are doing the entire engine the closest match to original I've seen is sold by Frank Badelson in pints and quarts, the color also varied by year, 1964-1968 was Race Hemi Orange (with some possible early 69 cars getting it as well) and 1969-1971 was Street Hemi Orange.

Darren what did you use originally to paint the engine ? That is what you should use because as noted they are all different ...

the colors are all over the place. mopar's paint has changed color,again; duplicolor is different, so is plasticoat. i just went thru this a couple of weeks ago. real mess!

thanks guys,John used mopaints,which is now KUSTOM KOLORS can't seem to get anything but a answering maching from them,sadly it is just touch up not the whole engine,looks like i'll be playing with colors this weekend,but as always thank you guys