Painting my classic cars engine block body colour

[DeanR32]

Evening PH

I’m looking to put together the engine and box for my 02 project and want to paint the block body colour (metallic sepang bronze), but not sure how to do this

Is there some kind of tintable engine paint or a high temp primer I have to lay down first? Watching some of the American hot rod build shows on discovery, they seem to paint their engines body coloured. Not sure about the metallic part though

Anyone have any experience of this? Don’t really fancy painting it black of red

Cheers

[geeman237]

Do they sell this in the UK? See photo. It comes in quite a few colours and they have a specific primer too. As for your specific colours I don’t know but I did spray two different colours to try and get a cad plated effect. Used one as a base coat and lightly sprayed another over the top. Bloody hell, how do you rotate the pic?

[crankedup]

Try these people :

frost.co.uk

[droopsnoot]

Have you tried a local paint supplier? I believe it's possible to get paint mixed in pretty much any colour and in a way that it becomes heat-resistant. Not enough for an exhaust manifold, but enough for an engine block. I also don't know about metallic finishes, and presumably it would need to be cellulose (or modern equivalent) rather than 2-pack. A mate of mine painted his block to match the body colour and said that his paint supplier was just mixing something different in to add the heat resistance, though that was a flat orange.

[Tempest_5]

I used some Halfords high temperature paint on the Pinto in my Westfield many years ago and it is still fine. I did give the block a good strip back and clean up first though. Make sure it is fully degreased.