What color paint for manifolds?

[Phred]

What color should the intake manifold be?

Should the exhaust manifold be painted, if so, what color?

Thanks in advance to all

[msmaron]

if you do paint it ONLY Use HIGH TEMP Manifold paint I recommended from Eastwood Manifold paint, it should be a grey tone,. BUT what i would do is clean it really good and then hand rub graphite on to it. That gives a nice tone to it, and if you can even bake in an over it is better.

[skip]

Good question, I don't know. Looks like the intake is painted, but not the exhaust. Note the black oil fill and pan and other 'bolt-on' items.

Here a fellow is messing with a distrubutor and we have some blocks off to be washer, dried, and painted.



After assembly the churns are hooked up to a 20 hp electric motor via the transmission output shaft, probably second gear and spun up to ? rpm with oil and coolant added see the water hose, valve and inlet dangling under the engine mount, untill the electric motor amps drops, indicating a 'broke-in' ready to run engine.


skip.

[Tacoma Bob]

I had great success with POR15 manifold paint. Nice grey natural cast look. Been on six years and looks like new.

[Blessyouboys]

Originally Posted by Phred

What color should the intake manifold be?

The intake manifold is painted Ford green, the same as the engine block.

[glenn33]

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Originally Posted by msmaron

BUT what i would do is clean it really good and then hand rub graphite on to it. That gives a nice tone to it, and if you can even bake in an over it is better.

Yep, I've used graphite too, and it looks great. There used to be a graphite based spray made for manifolds, but I haven't seen it in years.

[Chuck Sea/Tac]

por 15 is great stuff!
Chuck

[dmaxweb]

http://www.vhtpaint.com/flameproof.html

Cast Iron Color

p.s. Bake in oven to cure when wife and/or girlfriend is out of the house

[Aerocraft]

I have been successful with Hirsch cast iron gray high temperature paint on the exhaust manifold and Ford Green acrylic enamel on the intake manifold. I do glass bead both individually, paint them, and then assemble. The gray lasts for several years. Gar Williams