Best rattle can engine paint for 69 302?

[RagTop]

It's been a bunch of years since I painted my engine and I've decided to pull my radiator to get it rodded out, replace the water pump and replace the thermostat. While I've got that stuff off the engine it gives me an opportunity to paint the shabby looking areas of the front of the engine so that it looks better at shows. I remember that there was a Krylon color that was almost a perfect match before they went to the water based paints to satisfy the Cal EPA. What brand and P/N is everybody using now?

 

[Midlife]

Look at SEMs Landau Black: it can be brushed, rattle-canned, or sprayed. What you are referring to was Krylon Semi-Gloss Black, but it is only available in industrial supplies, such as Grainger. #1918 or something like that....

 

[JeffTepper]

Ken :

Are you looking for Ford Corporate Blue for the block/heads or are you looking for semigloss black for the rest of the engine compartment? The old Krylon Black was "1613". I've used SEM Trim Black with success in place of the 1613.

Regards, Jeff

 

[1965GTFB]

I use a paint by Seymour, Spruce Engine Enamel Ford/Mustang Blue 98-56
http://www.seymourpaint.com/product/spruce-engine-enamels/

 

[RagTop]

Maybe I'm getting my story lines crossed up here. The inputs on Krylon 1613 do ring a bell. I'm intending to repaint the front of my engine, not the engine compartment. I need a reference to a correct Ford blue shade for a 69 302. IIRC, Ford used a few different colors for the first gen engine blocks (including gloss black in the early 260s and 289s) and a really dark blue in later 65s and some 66s. I've seen that color occasionally at shows and it is so dark you have to do a double take to see that it is indeed blue and not black. By 67 or 68 they were using a slightly brighter blue, which is what I have on my engine, and I'd like to match it up. The lighter Ford blue shade is nowhere near as light as the really pale blue of the 60s Pontiacs. It's more of a royal blue. I'm sure you've all seen it many times at car shows. It's actually the most common color I see on vintage Ford engines. But thanks for the reference to Landau Black. I've got a couple of cans of that laying around my garage. I've only ever used it to spruce up interior stuff like the metal window ledges, but I didn't know it could be used on those satin black components under the hood.

I just looked at the photo from 1965GTFB and that's the color I'm looking for.

 

[1965GTFB]

Just click on the link in my post above and order yourself a can or two. If you were a little closer you could grab one form me, I'm in Sonoma County. Here is a pic of a can.