Fresh paint on my 300!

[Flareside Jeff]

Here's some pics of my freshly painted motor!

[grumpin]

Looks nice!

[Gary Lewis]

Looks great!  What paint did you use?

[Flareside Jeff]

Ford engine blue, enamel.

[Gary Lewis]

[Fordboy300]

Man that sure is pretty!  It reminds me of when I rebuilt the 300 on my 86.  

Looks good!

[Machspeed]

Flareside Jeff wrote

Ford engine blue, enamel.

Spray bomb or spray gun? Looks fantastic!

Off topic slightly, but when I bought my truck, I was very disappointed to see a gray engine. If it ever comes out, and I know it's not technically correct, it will be painted in Ford Blue.

[mat in tn]

technically correct? 20 years ago when i rebuilt my 300 i looked at it like a tractor engine and painted it john deere yellow. i would never do that today. i have become more simple about these . i have a rule for this on my trucks now. fuel injected get ford gray and carb engines get ford blue. i prefer the traditional look even if the internals are modified. i do sometimes use the hei conversion some simply because it just plain works.

[Flareside Jeff]

Painted with a spray gun, This engine was originally gray too.  I was told back in the day that the gray engines were industrial engines, put in some pickups, but I haven't verified that yet.

[Flareside Jeff]

Thanks!!!

[Flareside Jeff]

I had a Carbureted 86 F150 with a gray 300, and this 85 that I am building, the engine was also gray,
but I like the Ford Blue much better!

[FuzzFace2]

From what I seen posted the early years of the 80 - 86 trucks were blue and the later years gray.
The motor in my 1981 truck, not the motor the truck left the factory with, was gray and did not like that color so did it in blue also.


Dave ----

[Rusty_S85]

FuzzFace2 wrote

From what I seen posted the early years of the 80 - 86 trucks were blue and the later years gray.
The motor in my 1981 truck, not the motor the truck left the factory with, was gray and did not like that color so did it in blue also.


Dave ----

Should be correct.  83 I think was the cross over year, for 82 the distributor cap adapter only comes in blue which was used with blue engines, grey/black was used on grey/black engines the way I hear it.

My engine was a replacement block but everything else is original to the truck and it always was dark corporate blue and the same thing I am doing to my F1SE block that I am back dating to work with my 82.

[IowaTom]

Beautiful, Jeff!  Nice job.  

I did a head-ectormy on my (gray) 300 two days ago and that baby is a hernia maker!  Does anyone know what a complete engine weighs?

[Flareside Jeff]

That's a Great looking engine and trans, I'm putting a 4 speed in mine as well!

[Flareside Jeff]

Thanks Tom, I'm guessing a complete 300 is prolly around 500 lbs.

[Rembrant]

That engine looks great! Well done.

[ratdude747]

I do know that a raw 300 block can be lifted with two guys... Fully built up mine was making the engine stand bounce... She was heavy!

What makes the head a pain is the size and positioning when removing in-the-truck... if I ever needed to pull mine (in-the-truck), I'd probably use my engine hoist... It was bad enough removing it on a stand!