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1. engine paint (score: 1): Author: "Fred Griffiths" <griffco@cadvision.com>; Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:19:30 -0700; I'm doing the engine rebuild finally. This motor is so original, it still had the original gaskets and gasket goo holding it together. It was so tough I had to sandblast it off the front motor plate; /html/spitfires/2002-02/msg00119.html (7,806 bytes)
2. RE: engine paint (score: 1): Author: Craig Smith <CraigS@iewc.com>; Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 19:56:55 -0600; I painted my engine 3 years ago with NAPA Ford blue. I have a little flaking around the HOT spots but it's held up real well. I don't know what color your looking for(if any) but the NAPA engine pai; /html/spitfires/2002-02/msg00123.html (7,522 bytes)
3. RE: engine paint (score: 1): Author: "Chris Alexander" <chris@root.moose.ca>; Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 21:21:37 -0500; The folks that make POR-15 have a good heat resistant product (www.por-15.com). I think it is available through Eastwood as well. One of my buddies has been raving about a coloured ceramic coating. Y; /html/spitfires/2002-02/msg00124.html (7,503 bytes)
4. engine paint (score: 1): Author: "Fred Griffiths" <griffco@cadvision.com>; Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 09:45:02 -0700; Thanks to the two replies regarding engine paint - UAP engine paint, and I'm still not sure if anyone has tried using these on parts which end up INSIDE the engine. I need to resurface the front moun; /html/spitfires/2002-02/msg00138.html (7,796 bytes)
5. Re: engine paint (score: 1): Author: "William Davies" <bill@rarebits4classics.co.uk>; Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 17:06:23 -0000; The trade namy "Glyptal" rings a bell (check the spelling though). I've only seen this in red, but it's specifically for the inside of engines. "Our" cars were normally left unpainted inside the bloc; /html/spitfires/2002-02/msg00139.html (8,260 bytes)
6. Re: engine paint (score: 1): Author: Barry Schwartz <bschwart@pacbell.net>; Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 09:15:38 -0800; ** Painting of anything *inside* the engine is not a good idea. If anything should not adhere well and start to flake or chip off then it goes straight into the oil - potentially dangerous. About th; /html/spitfires/2002-02/msg00140.html (8,214 bytes)
7. Re: engine paint (score: 1): Author: "Nolan Penney" <npenney@mde.state.md.us>; Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 13:19:22 -0500; Glyptol is still around. Eastwood, among others, carries it. Here's an interesting one for you regarding it. My old Ford tractor has Glyptol applied to its entire innards. Engine, transmission, diffe; /html/spitfires/2002-02/msg00143.html (8,361 bytes)
8. Re: engine paint (score: 1): Author: Ken Strayhorn <ken@dukecomm.duke.edu>; Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 13:47:35 -0500; Hear hear. When the mechanic tore down my engine last month in the first step of the rebuild, he found a piece of RTV gasket material clogging the intake of the oil pump. He said he sees it all the t; /html/spitfires/2002-02/msg00144.html (7,986 bytes)
9. engine paint (score: 1): Author: "Fred Griffiths" <griffco@cadvision.com>; Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 21:49:06 -0700; Thanks everyone - I get the message - don't paint anything that is covered up inside the engine. I won't. But Glyptol sounds good! Cheers, Fred /// spitfires@autox.team.net mailing list /// or try ht; /html/spitfires/2002-02/msg00156.html (7,377 bytes)
10. Re: engine paint (score: 1): Author: John & Judy Tones <jtones@shaw.ca>; Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 10:27:25 -0800; I believe you will find that Glyptol is (or was) a product of General Electric and was originally an electrical "varnish". I have seen it used by manufacturers of every conceivable size of electrical; /html/spitfires/2002-02/msg00207.html (8,324 bytes)
11. Re: engine paint (score: 1): Author: Carter Shore <clshore@yahoo.com>; Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 10:47:40 -0800 (PST); I used to work at a radio equipment manufacturer (Aerocom in Miami). They would wind coils that were sealed and finished with Glyptol. This made them impervious to damn near anything, a requirement; /html/spitfires/2002-02/msg00212.html (9,227 bytes)
12. Engine paint (score: 1): Author: Susan Hensley <susan@bearcom.com>; Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 14:08:30 -0600; Hi all! On this engine paint thread -- the engine block in Tristan (my race Spit) is red and matches the car. While it came like that and I didn't paint it that way (the last 1500 I rebuilt I painted; /html/spitfires/1998-10/msg00702.html (7,675 bytes)
13. Re: Engine paint (score: 1): Author: "jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>; Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 00:17:09 -0000; Susan For the record, all cylinder blocks were painted a semi-matt black with silver painted rocker (valve) covers. John Macartney; /html/spitfires/1998-10/msg00707.html (7,532 bytes)
14. Re: Engine paint (score: 1): Author: "James Carpenter" <jc_carpenter@softhome.net>; Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 12:12:10 -0000; To me I like the engin black, mainly because when I have owned red engins they have always seemed to go wrong. 'A' serise and Triumph. To me a red or anyother bold colour engin says of the owner, I r; /html/spitfires/1998-10/msg00730.html (7,873 bytes)
15. Re: Engine paint (score: 1): Author: Atwell Haines <carbuff@nac.net>; Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 21:30:08 -0500; John, You got the block colour right (although the black always looks a bit shiny when the leaking valve cover provides an oily coating). <g> As for the valve cover, my '79's was orange, sort of, but; /html/spitfires/1998-10/msg00731.html (8,077 bytes)
16. Re: Engine paint (score: 1): Author: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>; Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 19:12:37 -0800; Atwell and John, Don't forget about the early Mk3 valve covers that were painted a gold/bronze color. Joe -- "If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort." -- Dave Weinbaum in National Enquir; /html/spitfires/1998-10/msg00733.html (8,513 bytes)
17. Re: Engine paint (score: 1): Author: Andrew Mace <amace@unix2.nysed.gov>; Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 23:17:51 -0500 (EST); ...as were most all 948 and 1147 cc Herald and Spitfire valve covers as well. Then there was the similar color (although perhaps more gold?) used on the entire 948cc engine on very early Heralds and; /html/spitfires/1998-10/msg00734.html (8,236 bytes)
18. Re: Engine paint (score: 1): Author: "Brad Kahler" <Brad.Kahler@141.com>; Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 22:46:00 -0600; Ahhhh, but the Mk1 spitfires were the only ones that had chromed valve covers as an option. Brad (Lincoln Nebraska 402-464-1502) 1964 Spitfire4 BFC25720L 1961 TR4 CT288L (OD) 1966 TR4A (Parts Car) 19; /html/spitfires/1998-10/msg00735.html (8,858 bytes)
19. Re: Engine paint (score: 1): Author: Sam Gentry <hsgentry@cfw.com>; Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 07:01:41 -0500; What color were 72 MK 4 valve covers. Mine is silver/gray, but I have never been sure it was original. The t-stat housing and a few other places are orange. Any of that original? Sam; /html/spitfires/1998-10/msg00737.html (8,993 bytes)
20. Re: Engine paint (score: 1): Author: Ronald Fowler <triumph@ameritech.net>; Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 08:00:04 -0500; To all: The the color of the valve cover is a light shade of blue on 1980 1500's as well as some late '79 California models. Both have black blocks to go with those big black bumpers! Ron Fowler '80; /html/spitfires/1998-10/msg00738.html (8,145 bytes)

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