Sup HT'ers....i saw a thread here before on how to clean and spray paint your block. I searched and searched and nothing came up. Can someone give me the link to this how to thread? Thanks in advance!

 

 

have it hot tanked

 

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my motor was hot tanked but not the tranny. so since they didnt match at all i went to wal mart and bought a can of dupli-color high heat engine paint in the "alluminum" color. came out real well all i did was clean the surfaces and spray it. works well no chipping or anything

 

sweeeet...stoopid question but wat do u mean by hot tanked? lol

 

Hot-tanking is when the machine shop puts your parts in a big cleaner. Like a big pressure/stream cleaner.

Here's what mine looks like after months of driving around in rain/snow/sleet/etc...

It was hot-tanked at the machine shop, then painted. My transmission was also painted with the same paint.



- Derek

 

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Did the same...
Looks good to me.

 

I wouldnt recommend painting it... have done so before and after a while of a bit of oil, coolant, etc getting on the paint it starts looking like ***. hot tank it like others mentioned and get it looking new again or have it powdercoated,,, just my 2 cents

 

Mine's been looking great since I built the engine in October.

 

as long as engine fluids dont sit on there for prolonged periods of time it should be fine. i had a bad oil leak on the first start up of my car, i fixed the leak and wiped it down and its fine no chipping or bubbling

 

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what kind of paint did you use?

 

To tell you the truth, I don't even remember. I just had the machine shop paint the block/head, then asked for an extra can of the same stuff to paint the trans.

 

about how much is it to have it hot tanked?

 

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shouldnt be too much, i payed like 60 bucks but the block has to be bare, no sensors or anything.. just some insight

 

i painted my block/head/tranny about a year ago and it still looks brand new. first of all you have to get everything as clean as possible. i used a couple cans of gunk engine degreaser, some simple green, a small stiff brush for getting off the bigger deposits and a good old power washer.
after you get ALL the oil and grease off what your going to be painting, dry everything off really well with some compressed air and get all the water out of the cracks and crevises. now start taping up what you dont want to get paint on. some things are easier to just remove than to tape up. you can use some heavy duty aluminum foil on the wires and other things to cover them up quickly.

i used some 1200 degree aluminum color paint and then dusted some silver over it to give it a little bling

 

got any pics of your motor??

 

sweeeet

 

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alumnim high temp dont look right. i found high temp stove/grill paint in satin silver at my local home depot that looks almost completely stock

 

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that looks awesome

 

jdmdan nice motor any more pics (up close more)
after they hot tanked the block did u have to clean it (like polish it?) or is that the result just from tanking it?
how come ur tranny wasnt hot tanked? (can u hot tank a tranny)
sorry for the questions Im building up my ls/vtec and my block and tranny are very nasty

 

anyone ever clean it without hot tanking?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by HB1234 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">jdmdan nice motor any more pics (up close more)
after they hot tanked the block did u have to clean it (like polish it?) or is that the result just from tanking it?
how come ur tranny wasnt hot tanked? (can u hot tank a tranny)
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i can get some more pics for you, no polishing just painted it and it came out looking polished. it kinda dulled alittle from those pics which looks better IMO. i didnt have much time to get the tranny hot tanked, as soon as my tranny parts came in i built it and threw it into the car the next day but it was pretty clean allready just didnt match that good, but i am very happy with the final product