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View Poll Results: What color to paint an LSx engine
Chevy Orange 73 52.52%
Gloss Black 28 20.14%
Other 38 27.34%
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Old 05-24-2010, 06:58 PM
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I am partial to the orange. My 5 yo son did the paint work on the block and valve covers.






That looks like my 3 yr old in my garage wrenching on my stuff My boy knows how to use the tools, but not always in the right places with the right parts. Your boy seems to know what hes doing.....Good for you Dad!
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That looks like my 3 yr old in my garage wrenching on my stuff My boy knows how to use the tools, but not always in the right places with the right parts. Your boy seems to know what hes doing.....Good for you Dad!

Thanx, He is a certified car nut. If I leave the garage he will go in and work on anything he finds in some cases undo what I did As you can see in the pics he was taking the line off that I had just put on and got caught.
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thats awsum that your boys are with you in the garage instead glued to the video games.if my wife gets pregnant again i could only wish for such a scenario.hats off guys and i like the old school orange up against the aluminum stuff.
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Here's my little 350.

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I dig the old school look in an old school....Spectre performance just shared pictures of my engine from columbus this morning....I'm also building a AMC ..those had ford motors but it now its an LS and its painted ford blue

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^^That looks good.


I see this is an old thread, but since it was bumped I'll contribute.


I painted the 6.0 for my 69 Firebird a Pontiac blue

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I painted my LS block and water pump red, and went for an old school vibe:
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^^That looks good.


I see this is an old thread, but since it was bumped I'll contribute.


I painted the 6.0 for my 69 Firebird a Pontiac blue

+1 on Pontiac blue. It found a home in my '67 Firebird
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