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Originally Posted by transam1972
actually I just meant painted valve covers work, especially for you because your entire engine is new blue..plus everything else is restored so it compliments each other...really the chrome valve covers are the only highpoint of my engine bay!!!..but in my reach to be correct, it backfired as new painted valve covers don't match the rest of the engine compartment..it woujd be a sin to restore and mess anymore under my hood(if 24 years ago I knew how important untouched would be, I wish I never touched anything!!) my unrestored looks as when I got the car in 1985, it has not been used and always garaged..unrestored is safer as no qustion regarding original finish!!..chrome valve covers are not incorrect in my resto world..they are an owner added upgrade...RAM AIR IV had them...just a cost saving measure..its like if I had a BREWSTER green T/A/ and I installed a functioning shaker..how is it incorrect..I would rather have a flap that is/was supposed to open than riveted shut I am striving for 100% correct and the 7 things that are incorrect I will share with the world!!!...actually 1971455HO,do you paint?..what blue did you use for your engine?..any left over?..I think you know where I am going with this line of questioning!...if your interested,Im buying!!
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First, NO, I'm not a painter.
Give me a little time to go back through my receipts and I'll be glad to let you know. It was special 71-72 Pontiac Teal Green. It was very dark while painting. But it lightened up when it dryed. It was not cheap and it came in rattle cans. I thought I would need four, so I bought six. Good thing I did.
It was a pain in the ass to make it look good on my block, heads & intake manifold. It was very splattery and thick. I warmed the cans and shook them for well over twenty minutes. Very thick. You had to spray it like it was DuPont Imron aircraft paint ('til it looked wet) any more and it would run. Looked great on the cast iron. Not so much on the smooth steel parts (oil pan & valve covers)
I totally screwed the pooch doing my valve covers, no runs or anything, but very orange peeled. It was to the point that my body man who painted my car said. I'll repaint those if you have any more paint. He stripped my covers and oil pan and repainted them. They were beautiful. He emptied the aerosol cans into something and shot them with his gun. So it must have not been the paint, maybe the cheap lousy spray nozzle on the cans?
The color is really pretty much dead on, based on all the color charts I studied, but tough to paint with the rotten rattle cans they come in. I wish I had known ahead of time. I would have gotten my body man to have done the same thing and paint the whole engine.
I will be glad to give you any information you need about what I have used. If I were to do it again, I am sure I would purchase a gallon from someone who has the correct formula and buy a fair to decent paint gun and do it myself. I'm not advocating the rattle can route even though it did turn out well.
Finding the right engine color paint, will be one of your hardest jobs with this car. There are many opinions about it.
Eddie