Engine color for 1935 ford

[blucar]

One of the projects I have planed for my '36 is to pull the engine out to do some refreshment work on it. When the work is finished on the engine I am going to paint engine dark green in lieu of the red it is now.
All of the speed equipment is staying on the engine, the heads are highly modified 59 AB's.
The heads were left bare steel because the original engine builder did no want to paint them because he was concerned about hampering heat loss through the paint. Some people have strange ideas.
Since my car is a late August car I would assume that the original engine was an LB engine with cast iron heads, so painting the heads on my car the same green as the block would be somewhat correct. I am going to leave the OFFY Super manifold the original unpainted aluminum with modified twin original air cleaners.

[Zeke3]

Originally Posted by blucar

One of the projects I have planed for my '36 is to pull the engine out to do some refreshment work on it. When the work is finished on the engine I am going to paint engine dark green in lieu of the red it is now.
All of the speed equipment is staying on the engine, the heads are highly modified 59 AB's.
The heads were left bare steel because the original engine builder did no want to paint them because he was concerned about hampering heat loss through the paint.

That should be a good looking combination when you get done.