Can One Shot be used to paint engine blocks?

Can someone use One Shot to paint engine blocks that are going to actually be run?

 

i'm unsure why you'd want to? for shine? ease of aplication? just because it is "cool"...

at 40 bucks a pint you can find a cheaper, safer, more durable alternative.

 

Good question. It's because I have three cans of black that I'd like to use up.

 

that would take a lot of cans to do a block!! and why would you use one shot, do you mean can someone use it to stripe a block?

 

"i don't know" is my final answer... my guess is that heat will bubble it up/off.

 

I think you both are right. No, you read it right. I was going to spray the block using up the cans I have on hand.

Thought maybe I could find a use for it. Thanks for the input guys.

 

Sell them cheap and use the money to buy a can of black engine paint and LUNCH. Then you can paint the block with the correct stuff....on a full stomach

 

i wouldn't spray it, that's for sure. i don't even like spraying raid around myself, much less something as poisonous as one shot. plus i'm very certian that is super illegal.

keep it around you'll find something for it... what i like best about one shot is how smooth it goes on... it is hard to put a brush stroke/mark in something you're "one shot-ing".

 

if you think you have enough, then use it. i bet it will be ine. i painted the engine in my essex with green rust oleum thinned out with acetone, and it worked great, holds up good and it didnt take 6 spray cans to get good coverage.

 

I have a flathead that I painted with it.
Easy to put on with a brush. Flows out nice. Lots of pigment in it also.
Didn't run it on the road for any length of time, but I had it up to running temperature, maybe beyond. Didn't see any paint falling off.
I've used it to letter bare aluminum bodied step vans, (this was before little girls could do lettering with vinyl). Just letter with it directly to the aluminum. Didn't come off of that either.
It has always seemed to stick very well to most anything. Sidewalks, your clothes, your skin, your Mama, pretty much anything.
I think you could do an engine with a half pint.

 

I brush painted my small block Chevy with 1-Shot 10 years (and 120K miles) ago and it still looks great.

 

I have painted many of my motors with one shot ,and it worked fine for me.
Been using it for more than 30 years........................

 

I WOULD GO WITH WHAT HE SAID!!

 

1-Shot is Alkyd Enamel, not Tempra or Watercolors.

Go for it,but I wouldn't be too surprised if it eventually
burned off around the exhaust ports,like any other enamel.

 

I painted my Ron Holleran engine with it and this year I painted my Walt Dupont engine. It goes on easy and stays shiney forever. Heat doesn't affect it, even around the parts of the block where the internal exhaust passages are. Once I painted a flathead with Krylon Ford red and in a year it looked like chevy orange.
Go fo it!!

 

One quote :make sure the one-shot still has the led in it,and not the new stuff that
says no led .the led is what makes it last so long and try not to thin the one-shot
to much about 60% paint 40% thinner. use laquor to thin it.I know people will tell you different but thats how I`ve been doing it for years.....................

 

I don't normally like painting surfaces that are subjected to extreme temperature changes with 1-Shot(such as motorcycle oil tanks and valve covers)but these are smooth surfaces.I don't see why 1-Shot wouldn't work on an engine casting.I would brush it on rather than spray it(less waste and toxicity).An alklyd enamel that is sprayed leaves overspray that is next to impossible to remove.Ask my friend Charlie(better still ask Cheryl his wife).She's still finding yellow overspray from a flame job I did in their living room in 1974!

I would concur that you could probably brush paint an entire engine with a half pint of paint.

 

Thanks all. I'm going to go for it!

 

Sure one shot makes a cool engine paint!! Eastwood sells a engine additive hardner for the paitn. We have done many engines with the one shot small cans , one can will do a engine and using hardner and gloss enhancer ( i now just buy it locally) it shines and you have colors not available in regular engine paint.
Kick ass stuff........

 

A couple pics.......

 

Dad just painted his nailhead with Oneshot, it looks awesome. used less that 1/4 of a pint. Covers really well.

 

Even though this thread is 7 years old, 1-Shot lettering enamel is a alkyd base paint and I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't do a excellent job. HRP

 

Works just fine. I striped a bunch of my block while it was on the stand (because I can) and its in perfect shape still

 

That is Great to know I'm going to try this Thank you for the information !! Jim

 

While 1-shot formulation has changed throughout the years due to changes in environmental rules and regulations , it is still the best that we have in the striping business . I've used it for years in various situations other than pinstriping and lettering .