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Crispy Beef - 15/12/02 at 12:20 PM

Hi All,

Just joined the site as there seems to be a lot of useful info and discussions here. I am currently in the middle of building a kit car and am about to start rebuilding the engine, but before I put it all back together again I want to make it look a little nicer.

I want to paint the block yellow (the car is taking a yellow/black theme), but for the life of me cannot find anywhere that seems to do yellow engine enamel in a pot (found one that does an aerosol though).

Any suggestions as to where I might find some?

Cheers.

bob - 15/12/02 at 12:39 PM

Why not use the aerosol

Crispy Beef - 15/12/02 at 12:43 PM

Well I probably will as a last resort, but it's gonna be a lot easier to use a brush to get to all the hard to reach bits, plus I won't have to mask everything off.

Plus I don't really have much room to spray without it getting over everything.

chrisg - 15/12/02 at 12:56 PM

Frost restoration do brushing engine enamel - not sure about yellow tho... I'll find the book and let you know.

Cheers

Chris

Crispy Beef - 15/12/02 at 01:32 PM

Found them in a search on Google, they seem to have just about every colour bar yellow :-/

Frost Enamels

Plus they seem a bit expensive too. A friend of mine did his engine in red and got hold of the enamel from Halfords (4.99 a tin), but phoned them and they don't do yellow.

Cheers.

chrisg - 15/12/02 at 02:17 PM

Por-15 who supply Frost do a colour called hi po yellow:-

http://por-15.freeyellow.com/Engine.html

Frost don't stock it!

Frost are the EXCLUSIVE Uk stockists as well. You could order it from the states, or maybe ask Frost if they could get you some as a "special".

Couldn't find anything cheaper though - sorry!

Cheers

Chris

Crispy Beef - 15/12/02 at 06:55 PM

Will try giving Frost a call on Monday sometime and see what they can do.

Cheers for the link

paulf - 15/12/02 at 10:06 PM

I had a tin of Holts yellow engine enamel, it was a bit thin and took many coats to give a good finish on a crossflow head. I used halfords black for the block and many small parts on the car and it covers easily and gives a good finish.
I dont know if it is still possible to get holts paint as mine was about 20 years
Paul.old.

quote:
Originally posted by Crispy Beef
Found them in a search on Google, they seem to have just about every colour bar yellow :-/

Frost Enamels

Plus they seem a bit expensive too. A friend of mine did his engine in red and got hold of the enamel from Halfords (4.99 a tin), but phoned them and they don't do yellow.

Cheers.

Crispy Beef - 17/12/02 at 01:58 PM

quote:

mine was about 20 years old


Yeah my friends red took three coats for it to look good. I will be using the black I have on various bits. But the bulk needs to be in yellow.

Bob da builder - 17/12/02 at 02:43 PM

Hey m8

try Demon Tweeks, will cost a fortune but it will do the job!!

Crispy Beef - 18/12/02 at 04:27 PM

Have now bit the bullet and decided that I'll use aerosols. Just plenty of masking off to do.

In the end I have gone for a yellow from US Automotive (http://www.usauto.co.uk/), they have a range of colours imported from the US, and the yellow matches pretty much what I want.

And the bargain is each can is only 4.99 or so.