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Engine colour choice

Posted By: boydsdodge

Engine colour choice - 03/24/11 07:36 PM

Hey all, stuck here on what direction to go on engine colour.
I was thinking that I should go the 340 look and paint the engine street hemi orange ( is that correct)
or sleeper 318/360 blue.
The engine is a 71 408 with an aluminum top end from Edelbrock running a Thermoquad from the man Demomsizzler.
I am kinda leaning to the blue, when was it first used on 4bbl motors?
What do you guys have an opinion on?
Not even sure if this was the correct place to post this question.
Thanks.

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Posted By: JOES4FORTY

Re: Engine colour choice - 03/24/11 07:40 PM

What car are you putting the 340 in? Are you looking for factory correctness with a few mods? Then again, it's your car, do whatever you like with the car.
Posted By: Mr.Yuck

Re: Engine colour choice - 03/24/11 07:41 PM

Hemi Orange on ANY performace motor...reguardless of what is correct for the year.

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Posted By: 383man

Re: Engine colour choice - 03/24/11 09:36 PM

Hemi orange looks great to me on the Mopar engines. But I wanted the Max Wedge look so it was no question for me. Ron




Posted By: POS Dakota

Re: Engine colour choice - 03/24/11 10:48 PM

If that's what your car looks like in the pic, chrysler industrial red would look great with the green. Of course that's if you dont care about having a "correct" color.

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Posted By: DaytonaTurbo

Re: Engine colour choice - 03/25/11 12:12 AM

If your car is that shade of green, I think the orange would look better against it than the blue.
Posted By: boydsdodge

Re: Engine colour choice - 03/25/11 02:55 AM

Thanks all for the replies.
I'll do a few tests.
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