Engine painting as a whole?

[slothy]

To the people who painted their engines, did you paint it as a whole motor, or pull everything apart (ie heads/cyl/ect) off and paint the parts individually?

[coupelx]

i stripped and painted mine as a whole. much easier than everything individually.

[slothy]

thanks, how did you prep it?

[micah]

I'm curious aswell? What's the best way of going about it?

[malloy]

I got por15 engine paint.... it's brush on self leveling... really top-notch stuff.

[slothy]

Jan 14, 2010 21:49:44 GMT -5 malloy said:

I got por15 engine paint.... it's brush on self leveling... really top-notch stuff.

can you post some pics of the engine and maybe some up close ones?

[grepper]

I've painted two engines now.

Took the engine out, pulled the rotor/stator, left the clutch push rod in to keep that hole sealed and pluged off the intake and exhaust with some old clean rags.

To clean, instead of using engine degreaser, I just pus some gasoline in a sprey bottle. Spray, scrub, rinse, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat.... You get the idea. Then i rinsed it with acitone. I'm sure any good cleaning salvent would work, Acitone is what I had in the garage.
With it all dry, I masked off what I didn't want painted and went at it with VHT engine/exhaust paint.
When the paint was dry, I cured it with a heat gun.
Then pulled my alunimum covers and polished them.

[drooling-bloodhound]

I used Harley engine paint, I painted mine while apart and blasted it with glass beads prior to painting.

[millimills81]

I was thinking about doing this myself, was wondering how a can of high temp grill paint would work. if anyone has done this any input would be nice

[grepper]

I haven't tried it, but I haven't heard very good things about it. Grill paint will only save you $5 over engine paint.

[jetmechmarty]

I found some helpful information in Car Craft magazine.

www.carcraft.com/techarticles/ccrp_0606_engine_compartment_detailing/index.html

[malloy]

here is mine.... POR15 ftw...

[millimills81]

Feb 6, 2010 15:53:36 GMT -5 grepper said:

I haven't tried it, but I haven't heard very good things about it. Grill paint will only save you $5 over engine paint.

been doing some research on that myself. found out not a great idea. people have told me it just doesn't hold up

[trebor13]

did you use the po15 (black) on the cilinder?

[coupelx]

i would not use por 15 on the cylinder. it was not designed for that. it should also be noted that standard black por15 is not uv resistant and will fade.


i used brake cleaner and a tooth brush to clean everything up. non chlorinated preferably and then sprayed everything with VHT ceramic engine paint. good to 500 degrees.