All I ever do is wash it down with brake cleaner and paint. Don't use varsol as your final cleaner because it's a petroleum base and not what you want to use for that. To degrease it's fine but final cleaner should be alcohol.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
If you are going to run this engine in the car until you rebuild your 283 (you said that in another thread), don't go too overboard on it. Save your time, labour, and $$$ for other things. Just give it a quick clean up, and rev it up.
I had a '77 Cutlass that had a trans leak. It ate a nice-sized crater in my parents driveway ... I never heard the end of it!
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Prince Edward Island
'64 Parisienne CS "barn find" - last on the road in '86 ... Owner Protection Plan booklet, original paint, original near-mint aqua interior, original aqua GM floor mats, original 283, factory posi, and original rust.
Again im lost with this car ive never painted an engine or even leaned one lol.. whats the first step i was thinking?
1. oven cleaner
2. pressure wash it or garden hose
3.sand old paint off
4 wipe down with a prep paint or varsol on a cloth
5 paint
Right?
Hey Johnathon, what we do is use a degreaser on the motor, oven cleaner works, we power wash it, then we take a torch to it on low heat and it burns out the grease in the pores then last steps is we use laquer thinner as a final wipe down (not varsol~has a oily base) and never had a problem with flake off at all. Good luck dave
My paint i got ON Sale soooo it only only 5 bucks a can so i bought green..... LOL i thought it would be cool =)
So you want to go green.Well if its not going to be in the car for a long time, go for it!
but you may get tired of looking at it
As for wasting time doing prep work and doing it right on a motor that is only going to
be in the car for awhile, I'd say your not wasting time if your learning something.It will
only make your next motor look even better because of what you have already learnt
here's a green motor from a 55 chev that I've done some work on..Kinda makes your eyes go krazy after awhile Keep in mind that this one has aluminum heads so you will see more green on yours
Keep in mind that this one has aluminum heads so you will see more green on yours