[F ROCK]

I painted the hotter areas, (heads) with high temp Wheel paint, before I painted the pontiac blue.
The paint always burns on the heads at the two center exhaust ports.
In the past i've used high temp engine paint under the pontiac blue for these areas but the last time i used high temp wheel paint and it has held up better.

[Sirrotica]

An angle grinder with a cupped coarse bristle wire wheel will make short work of any caked grease, and rust plus get the surfaces right down to bare metal if you choose to. My go to for cleaning up a old dirty, rusty engine, of course have a good grasp on the grinder when using it on irregular surfaces. It's messy, but most any option, even pressure washing is going to be messy.



I just bought a pressure washer last year, but haven't tried it out on any greasy engines yet. It's a commercial 13 HP 4200 PSI unit, so it should be able to dislodge most any caked on gunk off of an engine.

[kingbuzzo]

I need one of those pressure washers! I'll try the angle grinder but she looked not too crusty. I want to swap the chrome valve covers for steel and paint to match.

[kingbuzzo]

Oh good idea!