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Old Oct 5, 2010 | 09:04 PM
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What is the stock paint color for a 3.4L engine?

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What is the stock size of the salad shooter rims?
 

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Old Oct 6, 2010 | 05:50 PM
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stock color is black and the salad shooter rims are 16 by 7
 
Old Oct 6, 2010 | 06:40 PM
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stock engine paint????
 
Old Oct 6, 2010 | 07:07 PM
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GM switched over to painting the engines black in the 80s. They didn't even try to sugar coat the reason. "it makes it hard to see oil seepage"
 
Old Oct 6, 2010 | 08:46 PM
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Yeah, black is beautiful, at least according to GM.
Years (decades?) ago GM's divisions used to take pride in their engines and paint them distinctive colors: Chevy orange, Oldsmobile gold, Pontiac blue, Buick red, and others. Things got ugly when GM figured out that making a Chevy 350, a Buick 350, and an Oldsmobile 350 that had absolutely nothing in common (except maybe some fasteners) might not be the most efficient way to run a company. The sneaky buggers then did underhanded things like putting Chevy engines in Buicks. Making all the engines black helped with the deception. Once customers figured this out the shX& hit the fan and there were lawsuits galore. "I paid for a Buick engine in my Buick, not a Chevy engine" and so forth. With the issue settled GM had to disclose on the window sticker that the engine was "built by a division of GM" or some such thing. The engines stayed black.
I painted my rebuilt 3.4 chevy orange. If I was going to spend all that money rebuilding the thing I wanted people to *know* it had been rebuilt.
 
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