Str and bent eights!

[Guest]

Man I like how Buick engine parts look cleaned up a bit. I think these turned out ok. Pans for 320s. Sure get to be unhandy in size! The big nailhead pans are much more managable! Gotta work on the nailhead green shade.

[buick man]

… yeah to the factory nailhead color or correctness mantra … after a disappointing and dissaproving attempt at finding the correct color for my 364 from any of the usual suspects hawking the color and since I had an almost pristine low mileage existing original engine paint to color match to .. I formulated my own using Dupont Nason as a starting base … took me about 6-months of intermittent attempts when time allowed to master the correct color tint and hues and developed a code… most engine paints offered IMO were done to engine paint comparisons that as a "Calibrator" used the original paint but it had over the decades yellowed due to the use of leaded fuels thus rendering the famous nailhead factory paint color on the greenish hue side of the scale … blue plus yellow equals green … to task, my paint jobber mixed the starter batch from his interpretation from an example part I supplied … this he did 3 times but each time was off on the green scale side of things … I then had him give me toner of blue, black & white and adding the correct amount of flattening agent for the proper age effect proceeded dally when time permitted to get the correct dried code after many many attempts and time consuming efforts … something I would not venture to want to do anytime soon again … but it can be done if persistent ….the only reason I went to this much trouble was I just wanted to color match touching up chips on what was otherwise overall very good paint mostly the valve covers .. the intake manifold had succumbed to the leaded gas yellow green conversion … if not for the need to correctly be able to touch up the nicks and such and my ignorance as to just how hard it was to color match something I most likely would not of attempted that and just got some simple yet incorrectly toned nailhead paint and been done with it btw your middle photo looks real close …. - uncle dave

Edited March 1, 2018 by buick man (see edit history)

[Guest]

Yes, thanks for your reply! It took some trying, but the color on the 320 str 8 pan is prolley what I will change the naihead pan to after scuffing a bit. Found a rattle can color that was close enuff for me!