Wondering what color to paint my hemi, will have a horne intake, polished O'Brien valve covers , alum, timing cover and water pump, any pictures of diferent colors would be nice, will be going into a roadster. may even paint the timing cover and water pump.
This is the Bill Hirsch brand E-3924 LF orange Chrysler Engine Enamel which was used on later years hemis, I believe.
there is some silver left on mine, was thinking black, orange realy shows up, but woulod like to see some light yellow's or green's or ????
I agree with George. I'd paint the Whale its original color. The Elephant was Hemi Orange. But I lean to trad on the early ones! LOL
I like o.e.m. (or something close) silver on the early hemi so that's how I painted mine. Black looks nice also in my opinion.
I'd go Silver/aluminum on an early hemi, maybe even gold. Hemi orange is only for the 426, so i wouldn't paint an early hemi that color.
If it's living on an engine stand, any color you want. If it going in your Roadster the color has to compliment the "hole" build JMO ..................
Someone on here posted some 392 pictures from the Chrysler museum... Those 392's were painted gold.... Not sure what thread that was on... Sorry!
DeSoto Hemis had gold sheet metal on a silver block, which look very good. Here is a 56 DeSoto Hemi. trakrodstr
silver with all the aluminum would look all the same color, don't think the aluminum would show up, would realy like to see gold on the block and heads
Chryco, you have me curious, dude. Where did you get the valve covers and the intake? I don't think I've seen either one before!
Hey there, George! You are CERTAINLY right. But, there are TWO trad ways to look at it: (1) It's hotrodding, so you ADAPT an existing engine to your OWN application (paint it your OWN way, which is honorable and trad), and (2) other HAMBs are just trying to supply info about how they were painted in the FIRST place. For example, if I were to pull a pristine 303 Olds from a '51 senior Olds 98 (in my dreams! ), I'd feel pretty proud to duplicate the original green, with the yellow lettering (even if I sneaked another manifold onto it -- tee-hee!). I do think BOTH ways are seriously cool -- and trad, too. Back in the post-WWII to early '60s era, young guys couldn't always AFFORD to trick out their cars suitably enough to win trophies, right?
I went with a combination of hemi orange and flat black on mine. I was going to do it all black, but I wanted it to jump out of the engine bay a bit.
Here's a '56 Adventurer Hemi in the original car, in its original paint scheme, FYI. Gary found this car for sale on MoParts.com, BTW.
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