Engine Paint
#4
10-06-2010, 07:07 PM
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"
#5
10-06-2010, 08:46 PM
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.
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.
Last edited by 1augapfel; 10-06-2010 at 08:50 PM.
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