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Old 01-05-03, 06:04 PM
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What color to paint an engine....

I have been thinking of a color as my trade mark in engines..

I wanted to go with a red and maybe just polish the housings,I was also thinking if just stamping the plates I port,BUT I need to find a plate I can use to stamp a name on the plates..

On my 84 12A I was thinking* of bridgeporting it and painting it the gheyest pink paint I can find..So when I woop on some Hunda boys and open the hood to see that little 1.2L in pink ..What a embarassing lost right?lol


Has anyone here painted thier plates?If so what colors and 500 or 900 or 1200 degrees?

Right now im painting this engine im building/porting Crysler orange,thats what the owner wanted so its no problem,I will have pics up soon.The orange is sweet I just did the water pump housing and it came out sweet,It still looks wet and glossy..I put about 4 coats on..make it thick for chipping
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haha pink, that would be funny as hell. stampin the engine isnt a half bad idea thats somethin i would do just to let them know who did the performance work like a TM
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Yeah were can I get a stamper made..
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I wanna do my next one yellow with polished housings...I couldnt imagine it in my head so I found a picture of a red engine with polished housings (recently posted) and photochopped it. I think it looks good. So, when I rebuild mine, it wil be yellow and polished, or yellow and something...

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My official engine color is Ford's Jade Green Metallic on the side housings, silver paint on the rotor housings. Why? My first car was that color (code 4Q), and it was a really unusual color that year. And I don't like the look of polished aluminum... engines should be grimy not shiny.
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BEst idea is a light colour that'll show any seeping or weeping should the engine leak later in life
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Originally posted by Manntis
BEst idea is a light colour that'll show any seeping or weeping should the engine leak later in life

...such as pink.



I dig the pink idea. if not pink, then white.
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I actually like the light Chevy Blue, but prefer raw metal to painted blocks
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Mines painted with ford light blue. Almost the same color as the 12a carb.
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Originally posted by rx7 Nut
Mines painted with ford light blue. Almost the same color as the 12a carb.
My Nikki carb wasnt "Blue"

I want to see some pics of some painted engines,some wild ones..and some basic ones..

Yeah it would be some **** to get beat by a car,then to see the little rotary engine and painted pink..that will take the cake..Theres a Honda dealership by my house "Hondaland' they always throw car shows and you guessed it its a rice fest...

I want to pull up with a pack of ported rotarys,then call some of them out to run..I dont think they will do ****..
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Haha, this was posted a while ago, but I still kinda like it . In the original post, he even listed the colors used, but I dont remember where I even saw it...

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Ok thats over doing it,

Gay pride is not in my book..
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You did say wild .

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Do you have the pic of the car this went into?
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Originally posted by SoRRoW
Ok thats over doing it,

Gay pride is not in my book..
Yet pink is perfectly acceptable?
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Chartreuse.
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Originally posted by pratch


Yet pink is perfectly acceptable?
I would run a pink engine that is running in the 11s or 12s..but I would not support the gay movement by painting my engine the same colors..

Sorry Pratch if I offended you..it must be yoru engine...
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TJ, That engine looks like an everlasting-gobstopper.
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Originally posted by SoRRoW
Do you have the pic of the car this went into?
No, sorry

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"Taste the rainbow".
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Originally posted by Manntis
I actually like the light Chevy Blue, but prefer raw metal to painted blocks
I agree. Both aluminum and steel are beautiful when polished. When I get around to my rebuilding my GTU's 13B and my spare 12A I'm going to polish the hell out of every visible part and then find some hi-temp clearcoat.
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My first main choice was red..universal red...

BUT just for ***** and giggles,I wanted to go pink ..just to throw more shame in some *** holes face who doubts the power of a rotary ..lol well errr at lease a ported rotary
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