Take it apart and put it back together for no reason!!! Reply #15 – November 05, 2010, 04:51:00 PM yay pretty painted parts:DI did that when I dropped in the new engine last year. Problem is, I didn't take (or have, more literally) the time to paint the chassis while I was at it. The other problem is that I've removed so much junk outta there since then that now I have to repaint everything where stuff's missing Oh yeah, and speaking from experience: DON'T PAINT BOLT THREADS Unless their the ones that stick out the back of a bracket or something, then in that case only paint as much as will be sticking out.And make sure you use at least 3 coats of paint (1 being primer I guess) or it WILL come off. I cleaned, primed, and coated (twice) my intake with high temp paint, and its still chipping a little. Quote Selected
Take it apart and put it back together for no reason!!! Reply #16 – November 05, 2010, 11:53:31 PM Quote from: daminc;340666You didn't smooth out the mold line on your intake... It keeps Vinnie from getting a good night sleep...lolQuote from: vinnietbird;340671Jerry isn't joking. I WILL stay up late worrying about the mold line.I'm already freaking out.Well if Vinnie wants to come over and remove my intake to fix it he can. Other wise it's staying the way it is;) Quote Selected
Take it apart and put it back together for no reason!!! Reply #17 – December 02, 2010, 03:54:19 PM Time and energy to get work done!!!Pressure washed and sandblasted the engine this week. Just did the blasting earlier today. I still have to take a pic of the upper intake, never took pics when I got em back from TMoss. And of course now the lower is covered by masking tape then duct tape to seal it off for this whole process. But it's AWESOME. If anyone wants to, like me, keep the look of the stock H.O/S.O. intake, and have it flow like a GT-40, send it his way. Cost me a little over $300 to have both upper and lower ported, everything cleaned with solvent, and the whole thing blasted and painted with clear 500 degree ceramic engine enamel. AND get it shipped back LOL.Enjoy the progression! Mocked up and sealed....cleaned...blasted. Notice the grey Ford block paint near the oil filter port in the third pic. Idk why the order messed up. I was so happy though LOL. That settles it once and for all. So next I can do the heads and block that color and keep the timing cover as is, I don't think any aluminum other than the intakes was painted? Probably do Eastwood rust encapsulator on the heads and block first just to take care of any specks of rust remaning so the paint stays the hell on. Quote Selected
Take it apart and put it back together for no reason!!! Reply #18 – December 02, 2010, 03:56:17 PM Obviously the best picture. Cobra heads that nice would be like.....frickin....400 MEEEEEEEELION DOLLARS right? Quote Selected
Take it apart and put it back together for no reason!!! Reply #19 – December 02, 2010, 05:03:24 PM Good work so far. What color are you painting it? Quote Selected
Take it apart and put it back together for no reason!!! Reply #20 – December 02, 2010, 08:45:20 PM Quote from: vinnietbird;344059Good work so far. What color are you painting it? Looks gray on my monitor:burnout: Quote Selected
Take it apart and put it back together for no reason!!! Reply #21 – December 02, 2010, 09:06:06 PM I think that's just bare blasted iron. Quote Selected
Take it apart and put it back together for no reason!!! Reply #22 – December 02, 2010, 09:08:58 PM Quote from: vinnietbird;344115I think that's just bare blasted iron. Could be ..(I was being a wise guy) Quote Selected
Take it apart and put it back together for no reason!!! Reply #23 – December 03, 2010, 09:10:09 AM Re-read the post!!! Haha it's gonna be grey. I found remains of the original finish after degreasing it. What a brilliant archaeological find, I know. Might need to carbon date it, it's over 15 years old LOL. But the whole desired end result is an ALMOST stock looking engine bay. It wont be 100% because of the mustang shorty headers. They'll be either just bare blasted or painted black or a dary grey or something that won't stand out very well. Ideally if I could find some cast manifold that flowed really well like something out of a '60s SBF, that would get me as close to stock appearing as possible. But as long as the engine itself leads no one to believe it has ~270 ponies instead of 150, great. So everything will be painted as it was from the factory. I retain all of the accessories. I want the A/C to *work* and not only work but have R-12 in it, which is period correct. (see how crazy I am yet?) The smog pump is there, pumping air into the air. I may even attach the tubing with the diverter valves in it just so it sits there above the headers, and MAYBE even extend the vac lines I accidentally snapped off way back so they reach those valves just to have it all there for show. I would really do that lol. Quote Selected
Take it apart and put it back together for no reason!!! Reply #24 – December 03, 2010, 12:39:05 PM AFAIK the engine blocks and heads were natural cast iron and never painted. However gray would be pretty close to natural cast iron. If you're looking to do a factory look thing (since I'm gathering that you're running a ported TMOSS factory HO intake) then you'd want the engine painted as follows:block and heads: gray or cast ironintake manifold: silver (upper and lower)oil pan: black (since SO 5.0s had black oil pans and HO 5.0s had gray oil pans)valve covers: SO covers painted blacktiming cover: silver or natural cast aluminumheaders: grayI like your idea for a sleeper build. I'd like to try the same thing but with GT40 aluminum heads on another car ;) Quote Selected
Take it apart and put it back together for no reason!!! Reply #25 – December 03, 2010, 01:17:55 PM Quote from: thunderjet302;344186AFAIK the engine blocks and heads were natural cast iron and never painted. They were painted , just not with very much care at all , it actually looked like a drunken third grader with a spray bomb was let loose on them :).....( I worked at a Ford dealership service dept. from early 85 till July 92) The rest of your color observations are 100% accurate Quote Selected
Take it apart and put it back together for no reason!!! Reply #26 – December 03, 2010, 03:46:03 PM Yeah the only thing I'd have to contest is that. Again as you'll see in the picture, SOMEHOW about 2 square inches of grey paint remained among the surface rust all over the block once I washed it off. I couldn't believe it but sure enough it was there and I was so happy to see it!There is an article about the history of Ford engine painting on mustangs unlimited or super duper mustangs or some name like that :hick: whatever the site is. Google it and you'll find it. They say that it was grey in the 80s but at "some point" they stopped painting them. I'm guessing early 90's or maybe with the introduction of the 4.6 V8. Probably the latter as it's aluminum.The pan as you can see is black which is good, it was actually replaced when I first started driving. The pan had rusted through and leaked bad. My mom ponied up $1000 to have a shop do that pan because I was already kind of attached to the car just because it was my dads. God bless her even though we don't agree on everything. :DAs for aluminum heads, once paint is on you'll never know! Unless you had a really keen eye and maybe the surface came through a little and looked too smooth. And you could still use one of those "cast finish" paints to make it look rough. Quote Selected
Take it apart and put it back together for no reason!!! Reply #27 – December 04, 2010, 10:40:38 AM Quote from: thunderjet302;344186block oil pan: black (since SO 5.0s had black oil pans and HO 5.0s had gray oil pans) okConflict on my 20th then because I also have haze gray paint on my block ,,and my oil pan is gray.unmolested from all my historical paper trail from the previous 2 owners. Quote Selected
Take it apart and put it back together for no reason!!! Reply #28 – December 04, 2010, 11:10:51 AM Noooo shiznit! See the crown vic had/has (I guess I can say has because the title is mine once again but the car is physically not near me ) a black pan, that's an S.O. Maybe it differed from car to car. Sure wouldn't surprise me. THANKS Ford!!!!!! And I just realized I never say Lou's question among his massive pictures lol. IIRC vinnie has an S.O. bottom end with his setup. I'll definitely spin the thing over and hopefully not feel it get stuck LOL. Definitely wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if I had to pull it apart again at this point in the game. And if it's alright, well, from the day it's done and henceforth, this car will be seeing the exact opposite of what it saw last summer and fall. That is, meeting up with my buddy Friday and Saturday nights, handing him the keys and going for a ride out to the hot rod hangout then proceeding to haul ass through back roads, around town, peeling out through 1st and 2nd gear at six grand...doing burnouts at 6 grand....this thing didn't flinch once through all our hellraising, and did it make power up there with the cobra intake!!! Valves and cylinders sure are clean too hahaha. But that's what the silver car is for now. This will have the power but it won't be used like that. Quote Selected
Take it apart and put it back together for no reason!!! Reply #29 – December 04, 2010, 11:34:53 AM The one on the vert is now brown....lol Quote Selected
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