63 327 engine overspray pattern
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63 327 engine overspray pattern
Anyone know where I can find the proper paint technique for a 63 327. Got the motor out, and I want to paint it properly before reinstall.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Thanks in advance for any help.
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Originally Posted by millie
Anyone know where I can find the proper paint technique for a 63 327. Got the motor out, and I want to paint it properly before reinstall.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Thanks in advance for any help.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...031240-7111836
I'm going the mostly correct route with my 63, but couldn't do the overspray thing on the engine. I did it underneath the car, but not the engine. They can deduct a point or two when I go for judging!
More pics, info, etc. at site below if bored.
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The engine was painted (in 13 seconds) at Flint Engine after assembly, and consisted of the block, pan, heads, valve covers, intake, water pump, timing cover, balancer, spark plugs, exhaust manifolds, distributor, and bellhousing with clutch fork and lower inspection cover. The water pump shaft and hub were covered with a carboard tube, the distributor had a coffee can over it, the spark plugs had cardboard tubes over them, and the stamp pad had a piece of masking tape on it. Anywhere from the front three inches to the entire bellhousing was painted, and the clutch fork showed some overspray. Engines with aluminum intakes and valve covers had vacuum-formed plastic masks over those parts when they were sprayed, and iron intakes had the carb pad masked. 
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Originally Posted by 78Vette-SA
Noland Adams Books gives some pretty good examples. Is yours the 340/360 or the 250/300 with cast manifold. The cast manifold and steel valve covers were painted engine color as well as the exhaust manifolds. On the 340/360 the exhaust was also painted orange and then there was some spots in some pics I've seen where the aluminum manifold had some overspray on it.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...031240-7111836
I'm going the mostly correct route with my 63, but couldn't do the overspray thing on the engine. I did it underneath the car, but not the engine. They can deduct a point or two when I go for judging!
More pics, info, etc. at site below if bored.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...031240-7111836
I'm going the mostly correct route with my 63, but couldn't do the overspray thing on the engine. I did it underneath the car, but not the engine. They can deduct a point or two when I go for judging!
More pics, info, etc. at site below if bored.
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Originally Posted by GCD1962
Good Grief - who can say with any degree of accuracy how thousands of engines were painted by who knows how many people who were painting them at the factory. I bet everyone was slightly different. Those people who "determine" what is correct are only dictating what "they" think is correct in a situation such as this.
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Originally Posted by JohnZ
Certainly spray patterns, film build, and masking quality varied constantly based on who was hung over, had a fight with their wife that morning, etc., but that was the configuration of the engine as it entered the spray booth in the midyear era; I was there in '65-'67. Two guys applied masks ahead of the booth, one guy sprayed from each side (two sprayers) in the booth, and two guys removed the masks after the booth.
As I said, too much varience to say what is correct or not correct. John did you you ever spray each other!
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Originally Posted by GCD1962
As I said, too much varience to say what is correct or not correct. John did you you ever spray each other!
