Ford red engine paint

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I just bought an aerosol can of Seymour Hi-Tech engine coating EN-44 (Ford Red/Orange). Mac's (Ecklers) sells it $8.99/can. Mac's part #64-52388. I'd like to be able to tell ya what this is (enamel, ceramic ???) don't know and haven't used any of it yet.
I've had bad luck with ceramic paints in the past since they wash off completely during surface cleaning with solvents like gasoline.
 
Daves55Sedan said:
....... I've had bad luck with ceramic paints in the past since they wash off completely during surface cleaning with solvents like gasoline.
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Dang, guess I'd better not spill stuff on this one. :o
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dmsfrr said:
Dang, guess I'd better not spill stuff on this one. :o
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Ok, I needed to see for myself what I might be in for later. I had some parts leftover from the engine swap that had been test painted to check out the color, before I painted the new engine.
I got a paper towel wet with gasoline and scrubbed on a test painted part for about a minute. There was a slight haze of color left on the paper towel but it wasn't much and didn't rub thru the paint on the part. I can live with it.
 
dmsfrr said:
I got a paper towel wet with gasoline and scrubbed on a test painted part for about a minute. There was a slight haze of color left on the paper towel but it wasn't much and didn't rub thru the paint on the part.
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And someone else here also said that there was no problem with his ceramic coating (in a older thread).

Could be a couple things: It happened that the engine was painted with this stuff when ceramic paints had first come out many years ago, so it's possible that the formula had not been as good as it is today as it was in it's infancy. However, everything was ****-and-span applied at the proper temperature and had been heated by the engine under normal operating temperature for a couple years prior to the first cleaning.
Oil was present on the surface at the time I attempted to clean off the surface with a soft cloth soaked in gasoline. Perhaps the oil broke down the paint over time. Yet there were other areas that had some road grime (such as the oil pan) that I also wiped off with the gas cloth and it wiped the paint right off down to bare metal there also.
Nowadays, I am using enamel, but it is hard to find, especially in the Ford red/orange color, but every once in a while I run across a can and I pick it up if I am running low on the stuff.
 
As I said, Bill Hirsch has the correct paint, spray cans and quarts.

Daves55Sedan said:
And someone else here also said that there was no problem with his ceramic coating (in a older thread).

Could be a couple things: It happened that the engine was painted with this stuff when ceramic paints had first come out many years ago, so it's possible that the formula had not been as good as it is today as it was in it's infancy. However, everything was ****-and-span applied at the proper temperature and had been heated by the engine under normal operating temperature for a couple years prior to the first cleaning.
Oil was present on the surface at the time I attempted to clean off the surface with a soft cloth soaked in gasoline. Perhaps the oil broke down the paint over time. Yet there were other areas that had some road grime (such as the oil pan) that I also wiped off with the gas cloth and it wiped the paint right off down to bare metal there also.
Nowadays, I am using enamel, but it is hard to find, especially in the Ford red/orange color, but every once in a while I run across a can and I pick it up if I am running low on the stuff.
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