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Would the intake manifold on a 41 be painted the same color as the engine, in an original configuration. Dave

Intake, exhaust damper, water pump and stat housing, bell housing, spark plugs were installed when the engine was painted.

So they would all be dark gray and the The Filling Station engine paint is very close due to the research they have done.

DG

As a side note. In the "Pictorial History of Chevrolet 1940-54" there is a picture of the 1947 engine assembly line. It appears that a black starter was installed before the grey engine paint went on. It looks like a fair amount of grey got on the starter.

if your talking about the 41 gmc then it is olive green. the closest over the counter spray is krylon #3541 "Hosta Leaf" green. jim carter has the green also but is quite thin. they both look good

Think you could post that picture Dave???

dg

My problem most is the parts place won't or can't ship paint to AK so I'm just going to have to use something close,anyone have any suggestions in a name brand paint? I am talking engine color now. Dave

That's not really a problem Dave, most any enamel will work just fine for engine paint.
For some reason people think they get real hot and that they need high temp paint. They
don't, just look at your temp gauge, the only really hot spot is around the exhaust ports.
You could use good old Rustoleum smoke gray and darken it with some black or better
yet some dark navy blue.
Biggest thing is getting it surgically clean before you apply the paint. As with the new
engines from the factory back in the day, the paint on the exhaust will burn off after a
short time.

Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL

Thanks, guess that's what I'll do. My engine is at the machine shop right now and I have to assemble it then think about paint. Dave

Here is the best I can do Denny.
Full page picture
Closeup picture
Closeup #2

As for paint I use Rust-Oleum Charcoal grey. It is close enough for me. Pic of engine

that looks great, good enough for me, I'm not doing an original restoration anyway, I'm putting a 235 in my 41, I don't even think I'll try and disguise it. Not to many will know the difference anyway. Dave

Great reference photos!!!

Thanks for the pictures Dave, I dropped the hint that it would make a welcome Christmas
present, the book you got those out of that is. It looks to me that what may appear as over
spray on the starter is simply reflected light. I’d stake my life on the starter, generator
breather pipe, distributor and horn as being installed after the engine was painted and
them always being painted black. I’ve never seen an original starter with any gray
overspray on it.

Rustoleum has gone thru some major expansion over the last decade. Where they only
offered the one line of “Rustoleum, stops rust” enamel years ago, they now have a dozen
different lines each having a dozen different textures and colors.
I’ve used Rustoleum ever since I was a kid back in the 40’s. My dad and brother were
always dragging home old machinery and restoring it for the shop and the paint of choice
was always Rustoleum Smoke Gray or as it is often referred to, machinery gray or battle
ship gray.
I see now that they have a light and dark gray in their automotive line of acrylic enamels.
I’ll have to see if I can get a sample of the dark gray and compare it to The Filling Station
engine gray which I swear by since I‘ve matched it up to several original Chevrolet
engine parts that still had there paint intact.

Getting back to Homer, I don’t know how much of the Rustoleum product line is
available to Dave up there. I get the impression that Homer is sort of isolated from the
rest of the world?

Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL

We are not at the end of the world, BUT you can see it from here. We are at the end of the road BUT, we are not an isolated community, we have a Mcdonalds, Napa CarQuest Safeway. The problem is getting paint shipped, we can get most anything but the specialty stuff coming from the venders because of the hazardous shipping exclusion. That is why I'm also trying to find a good paint code for my 41 to get the proper(or close)paint for the cab and the interior. I talked to a powdercoating guy up the road today and he has a high temp product, I think I'll try it on the intake and exhaust manifolds, time will tell. Dave

My nephew took an old crashed USAC Silver Crown car an rebuilt it so it is street legal.
He has a 350 small block in it and had the headers powder coated with the high temp
silver and it’s held up really well for several years now.

Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL