<VV> Cleaning and Painting Engine Shrouds

[ricknorris at suddenlink.net]

My experience with sheet metal engine shrouds agrees with this. By being dipped and hung up to dry as it were it causes blobs of paint to form in some places. When using my glass bead blaster to clean them up for repainting it is next to impossible to get the blobs of paint off. I usually have to chip it off. Again, my favorite paint is Plasticote low gloss black. It's reasonable durable, dries fast and looks right.
--
Rick Norris
#36 Sunoco Corvair
www.corvairalley.com 

---- Bryan Blackwell <bryan at skiblack.com> wrote: 
> I'm believe - based on posts I've read and how the parts look this  
> makes sense - they were dipped in lacquer.  I'll bet they were baked  
> after that, to speed up the drying if nothing else.  The durability  
> of baked on lacquer (or any paint) is amazing.  And by "baked" I  
> don't mean a row of heat lamps - GM used ovens for this sort of thing.
> 
> --Bryan
> 
> On Mar 9, 2009, at 12:15 PM, chris mann wrote:
> 
> > I understand that to get the best results, media blasting with  
> > aluminum oxide will yield the best results, and likely, powder  
> > coating the parts. The consensus seems to be that the finish is  
> > obviously to be black and the sheen something like a step above  
> > matte and a step below semi-gloss. I questioned the VV board before  
> > about what GM did when the cars were first built. I doubt powder  
> > coating was an available technology back then. Enameling takes too  
> > long to dry in production and lacquer would not stand up to oil and  
> > gas spillage in the engine bay. What would they have done?
> 
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