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2 Litre engine block color

Postby Mikey » 13 May 2009 06:32

Am about to paint my engine block now back from rebuilder, and I was wondering was there an actual factory color[s] the blocks were painted? Are there color codes for same?

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Postby Beans » 13 May 2009 06:40

Black

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Postby Marko » 13 May 2009 08:22

one suggestion , chose a color that easily reveals oil stains, painting the engine block black just covers the truth :D

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Postby windy one » 13 May 2009 17:48

LOL good one marko!

I just painted mine semi-gloss black. Not too much gloss, yet will show all the oil leaks LOL.

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Postby Beans » 13 May 2009 17:52

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Century Gothic, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Marko</i>

... chose a color that easily reveals oil stains ...<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">
White [:D]

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<font color="blue"><i>1981 TR7 FHC Sprint (better known as 't Kreng)
1981 TR7 DHC (now completely dismantled)
Also a 1980 TR7 DHC, 1980 TR7 DHC FI, 1981 TR7 FHC</font id="blue">
<font color="red">http://tr7beans.blogspot.com/</i></font id="red"></center>

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Postby stricky » 13 May 2009 17:59

get it dipped in chrome.....

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Postby stricky » 13 May 2009 18:00

[:D]

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Postby FI Spyder » 13 May 2009 20:19

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Century Gothic, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Marko</i>

one suggestion , chose a color that easily reveals oil stains, painting the engine block black just covers the truth :D
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What oil stains? Both my TR7's didn't have any oil stains but they did have surface rust. (not enough oil stains.[:)])

Just solved the only oil stain I got on the Spider by changing copper seal on the oil drain plug. (Used it once too often.)

No more tell tail spots on the cardboard slipped under the car.



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Postby gaz » 13 May 2009 20:56

black as said before (smoothright) i think it was by hammerite:
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