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Anyone here painted their engine black? #2222034
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I have been thinking about going with something different than the usual orange engine paint and was wondering if anyone here has painted their engine black. If so, if you could please post a picture of it I would appreciate it.

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no pics, but they don't look as dirty when they are black like oil :P


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Black is the only color I have used for years.

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The last 2 motors I've done are black and look great...MEAN.

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If I could learn how to post pictures on here I would post some for you blush I've painted motors in all kinds of colors except white shruggy


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The factory has painted them black for decades. Boring


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Re: Anyone here painted their engine black? [Re: Tempest] #2222133
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we need (some) pics (please!).


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With aluminum heads, intake etc it looks good, but if it's all black then as mentioned, boring.


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My boring is engine is all black. Black is beautiful and worry free. Like everything else the purpose of the build dictates choices.


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Back in the old days it was thought black paint dissipated heat better.
I regularly painted oil and valve tins wrinkle black to increase surfave area/heat transfer capability.
I currently have one motor painted black and another with black tins, no pics.

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Paint em all black but no pics sorry............


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I thought black absorbed heat & white reflected it... Am I turned around on that? Tillotson roofing (a local co) sprays industrial sheetmetal roofs white to reflect the heat


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Originally Posted By RapidRobert
I thought black absorbed heat & white reflected it... Am I turned around on that? Tillotson roofing (a local co) sprays industrial sheetmetal roofs white to reflect the heat


Black is good at radiating heat actually.. I had a friend years ago who worked at Alpine (the car audio company) and they did tests with different colors for amplifiers and black was the best at shedding heat (from the aluminum finned body) even if silver,white etc might have looked cooler to sell in cases, black worked the best.

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[image]http://www.forabodiesonly.com/mopar/threads/non-traditional-engine-colors.368322/

Black intake manifold and cylinder block, chrome valve covers, and yellow accents on brakets, timing cover, and headers.

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Quote:
Black is good at radiating heat actually.
thanks Oz


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Originally Posted By RapidRobert
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Black is good at radiating heat actually.
thanks Oz


Flat or satin black is even better....


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Black is a great color to paint engines if you aren't very good at assembling them without having them drool oil LOL. Point is, sometimes it's a PITA to find an oil leak on a black engine. At that point the leak dye is your best friend.


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Originally Posted By Evil Spirit
Black is a great color to paint engines if you aren't very good at assembling them without having them drool oil LOL. Point is, sometimes it's a PITA to find an oil leak on a black engine. At that point the leak dye is your best friend.


This ^ I have always done the Wedge/Hemi orange and it makes it a bit easier to find that leak. BUT if I had a car that was a color that clashed with orange then I would look.


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In theory, if the heat is generated from within as is in an internal combustion engine, than black should shed the heat better by extracting the inner heat from itself with the help of an exterior black coating.
In opposite is a black roof lining attracting heat from the sun which in that case is an exterior heat source. That is why most roofs these days are painted either bright silver or white.
Nascar stock car engines have been painted black for ages probably for this theory actually being proven true.

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Fullmetaljacket that does explain it & makes sense as this would be two different heat sources, one inside (eng heat) the other external (the suns heat) on a roof.


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If you want to be able to find and fix leaks, paint it another color.

If you don't care about small leaks and don't want them to be noticeable, then paint it black.

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Black heads and block, black headers, black pulleys, natural aluminum intake, radiator, steering parts, black rubber and stainless steel braid hoses with steel ends, chrome pieces here and there. IMO, I prefer only having a few colors in the engine bay. It tends to clean it up and simplify it rather than looking like a carnival of colors.


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I paint all my engines black.
It does make it hard to find an oil leak if you have one but I like the look. I think it sets off the look of aluminum or chrome.
I have aluminum heads which I left unpainted.

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The next time you are over to my shop, Pat I can show you a black painted 400 block with Aluminum heads, a couple of 440 MH blocks (one which is complete with MH 727), a 440 Truck block with no ridge and a 440 race motor with iron "906" heads that went 11.33 in a Duster and will go into the Cuda as a mule.

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Originally Posted By Polarapete
The next time you are over to my shop, Pat I can show you a black painted 400 block with Aluminum heads, a couple of 440 MH blocks (one which is complete with MH 727), a 440 Truck block with no ridge and a 440 race motor with iron "906" heads that went 11.33 in a Duster and will go into the Cuda as a mule.

There will be club clinics in 2017.


Hi Pete,
Give me a heads up on the clinics!
I will plan a visit to your shop.

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How does the engine know what color it is painted? I can see if sunlight is hitting an object painted black or white and the black painted object absorbs the sunlight, and the white reflects it. However, under a hood, how does engine color affect anything? Is orange paint, blue paint, or red paint made of completely different chemicals than black paint?

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I think that the best color for an engine is to paint it industrial gray, because you can better spot leaks of all kinds against a gray background and white is just too much to keep clean, but whatever blows your dress up!!


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Pete do you have a recommended brand/part # for industrial grey. A good company like Rustoleum or similar.


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Originally Posted By RapidRobert
Pete do you have a recommended brand/part # for industrial grey. A good company like Rustoleum or similar.


VHT and Duplicolor do a gray engine paint (Ford had used gray from the factory I believe)

A buddy in Oz did a grey on a tractor engine from memory, it was just some general industrial sort of engine? paint I think. (been a while)

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Been painting them gloss black since the 70s. Next one will be black, too.

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Originally Posted By OzHemi
Originally Posted By RapidRobert
Pete do you have a recommended brand/part # for industrial grey. A good company like Rustoleum or similar.


VHT and Duplicolor do a gray engine paint (Ford had used gray from the factory I believe)

A buddy in Oz did a grey on a tractor engine from memory, it was just some general industrial sort of engine? paint I think. (been a while)
Thanks Oz


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This is an old pic, but I used POR15's engine kit. I've done several. The plus is it helps hide oil leaks, the minus is it helps hide oil leaks.


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Conversely,I plat to paint the Gen III Hemi in my 2004 Durango Hemi Orange. I need some contrast so I can see when installing it!

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