Never heard of a painted engine holding in too much heat. Hell within a year the paint will be burned off mostly anyway. If you're concerned about oil temp run an oil cooler.
Anyways
Is the paint good enough for a cut n buff or you gonna rattle can it?
And I refuse to believe swapping to different wheels blew up the rear end. I think it may have already had low fluid or a bad seal from factory (or before you guys got it) and it just happened to grenade after the wheel swap.
His point of contention was to not paint the oil pan with high-temp heat, but to use normal oil-resistant paint for it. I basically said the same thing, that down the road I can just put in a filter re locator with an oil cooler in line.
The body paint? It's... Tolerable, but I want to repaint it another color. It'll be rattle-canned to stop rusting, and then really nicely painted in like a decade at this point.
The engine paint? If you didn't know better, you'd think the stock color was "rusted iron" with "peeling orange highlights". I'm gonna strip all the orange off of her and repaint it from ground up.
I do not know. He said that he made one trip with them, that the car handled differently, and on the return trip the axle blew out. It's kind of a moot point, since I don't like the 14" rims anyway, and the axle in it is the axle in it.
Paint the entire engine. Engine builders paint the entire engine after being rebuilt. Paint it Pontiac engine blue to confuse people. Oil pans are painted on new cars from the factory.
Ha. That'll really confuse people! If I wasn't going to paint the car dark blue at some point in the eventual future, I would have painted it a more traditional color.
