Yesterday me and my friend painted my engine block at his body shop.

After I prepped and masked the block he sprayed it with DTM Epoxy.

Next 4 coats of Sunburst Orange

Followed by 2 of clear with Gold pearl, another 2 coats of clear with Blue pearl.

Pearl was one tablespoon per quart.

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After I picked up the block this morning, I installed the side freeze plugs and coated the oil valley with rust-o-leum.

In case any of you reading this are interested in having this done, here are the prices;

DTM Epoxy - $73 qt with activator

Base coat - $95 qt (In my case with a GM factory high grade metallic)

Clear - $65 qt with hardner

Pearl - $15 pt (each)

Hours involved - 7 hrs (Our body shop charges $65/hr)


The prices listed on materials were my cost through my distributors and not what we charge customers.

looking really good, keep up the good work!

Yeah man post pics as soon as you get em.

That engine is looking really great! Be careful about it though. I just bought my 69 442 W-30 with the 455 engine painted 2 years ago and a lot of it has already burned off. I don't know if there's anything you can put on it to make sure that doesn't happen, but I thought you might want to know and check into that.

Really looks great rocketolds!

What are your goals with the car? Show in a like original state? Show in a custom class? Or just for fun?

If you had your block hot tanked that paint will stick very well with the epoxy primer. I am wondering though, will it be a problem to match that paint color later when you paint the heads or other parts? Also, that is one expensive engine paint job, especially for just the block!

As far as it baking off, at least the heads anyway, I have Jet Hot coated headers and mandrel bent Torque Tek pipes on my 442 and the system really helps to keep the heat out of the engine bay. The paint did not even bake off my heads where the headers bolt up intil I got it really hot at the Woodward Cruise. I read about a car year one restored years ago and they sandblasted the engine before painting it. Sandblasting anything before paint really makes the paint stick like crazy because it gives it a nice rough "tooth" to stick to, but sandblasting a freshly rebuilt engine? I don't know.....

Keep the pics coming as your rebuild progresses!