The Before Shot

Well... what do you expect from a 40 year old engine?

It even still has the canister style oil filter.

I had thought it just needed new valve cover gaskets and paint but I found huge deposits of sludge and carbon on the valves and intake. Some... unknown substance in the oil pan and the water jackets were nearly clogged with rust and hardwater, so off to the machine shop it went.

Tape and Prep

Since I still needed to clean the surface before paint, after the trip to the machine shop, I taped every openning with EXTREME prejudice. I used vinyl tape. It held up like a champ with no peeling, melting or loss of adhesion. There was no way any of the POR metal etching/cleaning liquid was going to mess this up now. Check out the yellow color and hazy gray it gave the metal. You should see it up close. This stuff's amazing. I'm hoarding the left overs.

POR Engine Enamel Results

POR engine enamel looks great when done.

Drawbacks- because it uses black POR15 as primer it needs a lot of coats to cover and it is super thin so you can imagine how many. Also, it's so thin, brushing is WAY too difficult and looks bad.

Good Points- The POR engine kit comes with more than enough paint. It also dries fast, so you can do multiple coats in a day, I started early morning and finished in the mid afternoon.

Suggestions- Spray this stuff dont brush it. I sprayed it and I'm EXTREMELY happy with the results! It shines like you can't believe. I'd recommend this stuff in a second!

POR 20 Aluminum

After red dried, I brushed on the POR20

aluminum high temp paint.

Looks good so far, let's see how long it lasts.

Correct Color

Sorry Purists- Orange is just not my favorite color ;-P

This pic gives a better idea of the true (real life) red color.

I was hoping for a more fire engine tone but

this is all POR carried in red (kind of a wine tone).

Front View

Here's a look with valve covers and Pertronix II

distributor installed. I had planned to paint the

Chevrolet script on the covers with silver but

that turned out to be harder than expected.

So I left well enough alone.

Money Shot

Here's a nice shot. Gotta say I'm impressed with the

look of the POR-20 high temp aluminum paint