<VV> Re: Painting oil pan

[Tony Underwood]

At 09:32 hours 02/28/2006, Padgett wrote:

>>Actually Ryan, there is a school of thought that says any coating 
>>on the oil pan and/or valve covers acts like an insulator,
>
>Rust is a coating, if it is made of steel, paint it with a thermally 
>conductive paint (if you can find any). Howzabout galvanizing/anodizing ?




Well...  :)   Oil pans and valve covers on Vair engines are already 
covered with ternplate.     They're not supposed to rust in the first 
place.   If they're that scoured and scraped that they're rusting, 
you could always replace them with better pieces, still cheap at shows.


tony..