Engine color for 1935 ford

[vetpenny]

I have seen 1935 engines with silver color and light green. Most of the 1935 engines I have seen are light green but a few are silver color. People who have silver engines claim that some of the manifolds are aluminum. My manifold is cast iron therefore, I choose the light green color. Are both acceptable or does it depend on the manifold type? Thank you for your help.

[Kube]

The correct intake manifold and cylinder heads are aluminum left in their natural finish.
By "correct" I mean what the engine, as installed in the chassis back in 1935, was assembled with.
If you have a cast iron manifold and / or cylinder heads, I suppose you can paint them whatever color you like.

[rockfla]

I would ad.....The color, I would not call "light green"....I would consider the "correct" color to be "Dark Green".....which is "slightly" seen in the attached picture......NOW.....this is a "European" 35 (which was titled and sold as 1936) so the intake manifold is "correct" for the (as sold) 1936 BUT to "kube"s" post above and the "correct" finish of "heads" and "Intake" and once again the slight bit of "Dark Green" on the water pumps (as support of my dark green finish).

[AnthonyG]

This was the color bought as the correct color for the 1935 engine block.

[Lawson Cox]

Looks about right to me. Could be a smidgen light, but could be the way the picture turned out as well.

[PeterC]

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[Terry,OH]

It is my understanding, the engine paint from Bill Hirsch is not the correct shade of green. I believe Third Gen Auto has the correct shade in spray cans. 35 car intake and heads are unpainted aluminum. The trucks would have cast iron intake and heads.

[danliveshere]

This is a colour I blended. Not the “correct” colour, just a blend I liked. In fact in Australia our early engines are a grey colour.

[petehoovie]

Originally Posted by danliveshere

This is a colour I blended. Not the “correct” colour, just a blend I liked. In fact in Australia our early engines are a grey colour.

[Model51]

Vetpenny, as terryOH mentioned most 1935 truck engines came equipped with cast iron heads and a cast iron valve cover - intake manifold, both painted engine green. I’ve seen pictures and examples of both cast iron heads and intake manifolds painted silver, presumably to mimic the aluminum versions. I used Hersch Coen Engine Green and am happy with the result.

[blucar]

When I purchased my '36 in 1952 the odometer showed 51 + k, I am the second owner of the car. The engine was a dark green, Ford, Meyers/Welsh rebuilt engine standard color for a flathead regardless of the vehicle year.
Of course other re-builders painted their engines a number of different colors, silver, light green and/or light blue.

[rotorwrench]

Ford likely had several shades of dark green through the years that is was used. The difference between shades wouldn't be much. Model A engines used two slightly different shades of the dark green during A production. Ford used dark green until 1939 when the 239 engine was introduced. They used same color for a short while but then changed it to dark blue on the 239 to ID the two different engines.

[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.

[Graeme / New Zealand]

Here in NZ Canterbury Green an English MK1 Ford Zephyr is very close.

GB

[Model51]

Ford produced the babbit bearing engine and the loose bearing (LB) simultaneously during 1936 and all of those engines were painted Ford Green. The cast iron heads and cast iron intake manifold - valve covers were also painted Ford Green while the aluminum versions were left in their natural finish.