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I am getting ready to paint the engine in a 60 270 hp car. I have seen later cars with the intake overspayed using a mask. In the book By The Numbers it has a list of the order of the engine as it was put together and shows the intake on before paint. Does this go for an aluminum intake and how much overspray should show? Does anyone know what this mask looked like? Also the oil fill tube is painted silver, is this a high gloss or a flat silver? Thaks for your help!
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Also a side note, Were the valve covers installed when the mask and painting was done? If so is there overspray on them as well?
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Re: 1960 270 HP intake overspray?
Oil fill tube was a medium gloss "Argent Silver". All the major supply houses
carry this filler tube and it is made by Paragon.
The Flint masking procedure, printed by Noland Adams in Vette Magazine about ten years ago calls for masking the intake. This was done with tape and a solid mask. The degree of orange paint showing (NOT OVERSPRAY) depended on the man doing the masking. It's very difficult to follow the lines of the intake exactly so hit-or-miss painting is fine. The orange paint should show along the intake's junction with the cylinder heads.
The pad with the stamps was also to have been masked off. This was done on a hit or miss basis with many pads painted completely. NCRS judging requires a paint-grease-debris free pad for number and broach mark inspection.
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Re: 1960 270 HP intake overspray?
Aluminum alloy valve covers were installed and masked off. Steel valve covers were installed and NOT masked.
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