Poll
Question: What color
I think this is where this should be, if not can a mod move please?
Ok, so far I have cleaned up the water pump, timing cover, crank pulley, and alternater brackets, but can't seem to get them " clean enough to look good". So i was considering painting them. I have a carb to paint as well, so all is well. Only question is what color? Ford blue, black, allumnium color, silver? So many different colors. I'll leave this the peoples oppion on this one.
Here are some mroe recient pics of the car, to see what I'm workin with
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Beadblasting is your friend. That paint will look good for awhile. But with working on a car the paint isn't worth it. The paint always chips off and looks like ass.
Well, for the allumnium atleast I have to do something. If it sits out for to long " untreated" it will oxidize and look like ass anywaysI'm personaly leaning more towards a nice allumnium color, as about 1/2 the parts on the car are an allumniun ( Intake, calve covers, water pump, timing cover, carb spacer) to preserve the color and make it look good while doing it. To hopefuly prevent chipping I was going to give LOTS of clear coat
I was thinking of getting creative with teh valve covrs too, painting a black like the FRPP ones then sanding off the paint on the fins and the POWERED BY FORD then clearing over everything. This is still up in the air
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Step 1: Remove motor
Step 2: Clean up/paint Engine bay
Step 3: Pull all accesories off motor
Step 4: FIND THE OIL LEAKS YOUR MOTOR HAS AND FIX THEM!
Step 5: Clean motor after fixing leak(s)
Step 6: Clean and Prep all accesories
Step 7: Paint accesories to your liking and re-install on motor.
Step 8: Reinstall motor.
That is all
I redid all the gaskets right from the timing chain forward. Fel-pro everything. Thats the only place it leaked at. All clean, block is clean, timing cover and waterpump are as clean as I can get without hittin them with a wire wheel. Camaraphone pics to follow, as I lost the cord from my camara. When I paint the parts, I'll be masking off anything that could get paint on it and doing the whole under hood area in flat black. Stuff is only set in place now, I'm painting everything. Inner fenders, fire wall, radiator, radiator support, all brackets... everything.
Couldn't agree more. If you try and clean that thing up right now you are wasting your time. Pull the motor and trans, probly both need rebuilding anyways. It will be a never ending battle with the oil leaks that you have. It will always look like ass. Do it right the first time and you wont have to do it twice. Unless you like blowing money.
Brian
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That's the only way to do it right. That's what I did to mine.
If you really like the look of aluminum you would get it bead Blasted. Then you can spray on as many coats of clear you want to protect it. Then if the clear chips of it dosen't look near as bad as paint chipping off. For bead blasting you really need to take things apart any way. Oh yeah you could aways drag the thing to a car wash and give it a blast with the power washer. Make shure to cover things you don't want water in.
The only reason I wanted to do this to begin with is everythng is already cleaned up and already apart. I guess the quiestion now ( which seems answered) is just leave it alone for now or paint it. Alot of what is on this motor will be on the next one as well, so if I do it right now, I can re-use it later.
leave it alone
you need to focus on getting the title and a fvcking drivers license first!
Workin on that. In the mean time I'm workin on the car
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I think all those options stink.
Just clean it up real nice and that's probably all you'll need to do for the time being.
I might just do that Alex... I just might
yep, when I have a gas mask on, I know what I'm talking about.
I have to ask, did you take a picture just for this or did you have the picture ahead of time for just such an occasion
Well..... I got bored and sourced alot of the brackets on the car. I only really have one anymore so I found another alternater bracket, water pump, timing cover and aircleaner. All done in a matt silver/allumnium color. I don't think it looks bad. Painting the underhood matt black is soon on my to-do list to really show it off. Also got an idea on the valve covers I'm going to try. More py camara phone pics to follow soon
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Here are the pics. I also painted my set of headlight covers flat black as they should be, then threw my spair set on. Not sure which I like now though;)
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And the brackets
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And a spair water pump for the hell of it
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should have taped up the chrome accent around the headlight buckets.
Which ones. The black ones were a form of black from the day I got the car. Looked like rattle can even then. Whats on it now ( spair silver set) is as I got it. They got some wicked fade on them. I can repaint them I just have to match the color. Doin the black paint now ( valve covers) and taping up underhood
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This is the earilest pic I can find. They were a gloss black even before I re-painted them
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If you have all the oil leaks fixed, get two cans of Easy-Off oven cleaner, run the engine until it's at normal temp, shut it off and spray the entire engine with the Easy-off. Let it set for at least four hours and pressure spray it clean. It will all but sparkle.
Wow... it turned out alot better then I thought it would. I was going for this kinda look
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And this is what I got
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Pardon the rest of the "dirty" in these pics, It's going to be clean by the end of the day I hope
Leave those valve covers you have. They look good.