engine color

[hotrod24]

hey i tryed to find a site that had the color from 73-80 for are truck motors but no luck so do yall know?

[Lt.Del]

my 79 was a blue engine www.delbridge.net/install

[Blazin]

Supposedly black engines run cooler. Thats what I was told years back when they started painting them black from the factory.
 As far as 73 to 80. I think up till about 75 or maybe 76 they were red, then went to blue after that.

[dumbucket1]

are you wanting to know for a restoration or just engine color ideas? I painted my block chevy engine red and the heads cast iron gray. Turned out pretty good

[Dragon]

Supposedly black engines run cooler. Thats what I was told years back when they started painting them black from the factory.

LOL Yeah, it's alot easier to tell that to a Die-Hard Chevy/Buick/Olds/Pontiac/Cad Owner, instead of explaining to them that their Favorite Lines Share the same "Corporate" Engines....  It helped distract from Temporary Sales Lulls, and atleast it did till Joe & Jane Public figured out what happened......

[GoatBeard]

What year did they stop painting them orange?  Wasn't it sometime in the early 70s?

[Blazin]

For some reason I think years ago one of the 4wheel magazines did an article on the black engines. They did some sort of comparison and they found merit in the black engine running cooler thing too.

[HAULIN IT]

Hotrod, The '73-'76 were Orange, the '77-up were Blue, this is to the best of my knowledge. There could have been some sort of 3/4 & 1 ton stayed Orange one more year or something that I'm not aware of. Lorne

[hotrod24]

 yea i am doing restoration but i wanted to know because should i paint it factroy or go with elderbrock colors and if the 78 motor was blue i dont think that would go to togather very well because of the red on the carb

are you wanting to know for a restoration or just engine color ideas? I painted my block chevy engine red and the heads cast iron gray. Turned out pretty good

[75 C20]

I have always loved the orange but the 400 I'm putting in my 79 i painted blue since it would have been that way from the factory.

you can see the orange on my 75's 350 in the background too

[hotrod24]

hey where is it at

I have always loved the orange but the 400 I'm putting in my 79 i painted blue since it would have been that way from the factory.

you can see the orange on my 75's 350 in the background too

[78 Chevyrado]

you can see the orange on my 75's 350 in the background too

mine will be blue like that one of these days.
My 77 C10 had a blue engine and my 78 C20 does too.   

I put an orange one in my 87 though, cuz weather or not it cools better, the orange makes leak-finding a lot easier. and looked better too IMO.  I put a '73 400 in my 87 R10, here ya go.

[Captkaos]

You have an 87 currently?  Did I miss it?

[ccz145a]

That's purty!

I put an orange one in my 87 though, cuz weather or not it cools better, the orange makes leak-finding a lot easier. and looked better too IMO.  I put a '73 400 in my 87 R10, here ya go.

[78 Chevyrado]

You have an 87 currently?  Did I miss it?

no, sorry I USED to have it.  It was wrecked beyond all repair July 07.