My 93 project truck-Alpine Green

[bk95td]

Looks really nice:thumbsup:
Did you make the stainless glow plug heat shields? Good idea as the factory ones rust out.

A friend of mine made them for me.He has all the equipment and stainless experence. They will definitly outlast the truck.

 

[SmithvilleD]

Those are pretty cool. I've been meaning to find a little project to try TIG welding. Something like that in stainless might be a good starter project.

 

[restoguy]

OH SNAP! That's a hot looking.....Detroit! I like how you masked off the decal on the valve cover. Attention to detail is where it's at! With that attitude I'm sure you get along with the 6.5L just fine!

 

[Matt Bachand]

Sure looks nice man! Nice work!

 

[SuperTuscan]

I'm inspired by your project.

Is Alpine Green the only DD factory color? I've seen silver and blue as well. Again, that may be the rebuilder doing that - I don't know. If silver and blue are factory colors, is it a code that means something?

More colors

 

[jmiller]

Looks great :thumbsup:

 

[Matt Bachand]

It just shows how much nicer things come out when the work is taken to paint each item individually vs spraying the entire assembly at once.

Hell of alot more work though. But looks fantastic. I really like the red inj lines.

 

[83GMCK2500]

Is Alpine Green the only DD factory color?

From what I've read and observed the older -53 & -71 series are all supposed to be Alpine Green, -92 series are silver (not any old silver either, it's got a unique color) and the newer 60 series is a blue color (again, unique to DD).

Marine engines might be a whole different animal, I've got NFC.

 

[Woody35]

looks really good!!

 

[restoguy]

Don't forget to give us a couple fully installed pics.

 

[bk95td]

Matt , the injector lines are chevy orange. They didn't turn out as well as I wanted because I ran out of hi temp primer that day so I put 3 coats of just orange. I will keep the pics coming as it gets all together. I might steal the k47 air cleaner from the 97 c&c. Gotta paint the inner fenders alpine green yet and paint the battery trays black. I have a 94+ grille for it also.

 

[96 OILBURNER]

From what I've read and observed the older -53 & -71 series are all supposed to be Alpine Green, -92 series are silver (not any old silver either, it's got a unique color) and the newer 60 series is a blue color (again, unique to DD).

The 92 series engines came in green and silver. They made some changes to the engines in 92 and also changed the color to silver.

 

[bk95td]

More pics. Radiator is in and connected except for upper hose on thermostat. I always fill a dry engine through thermostat hole. That way I know the engine is near full. Learned that lesson the hard way on a 455 olds. Burnt a valve because of air lock. Also burnt all the paint off heads.:mad2:
Fan and shroud in.Mostly just paint and install battery trays and inner fenders and connect exhaust up with band clamp.

 

[chevyCowboy]

After looking at your pics i am defanaitly going to go with the Detroit Green for mine. did you do any thing other that cleaning up the alum. like intake etc.? a company we use at work just got a powdercoating setup and was thinking i may have some stuff coated got to see what colors they can do first though.

 

[bk95td]

The aluminum was wire wheeled, cleaned with lacquer thinner and painted with aluminum high temp . I did this same thing to my 91 6.2 and it held up very well. The paint keeps the aluminum from soaking up any oil.Easier to keep clean. Others have cleaned the aluminum and painted with high temp clear.

 

[chevyCowboy]

did you just sand blast and paint the manifolds. did the paint you bought come in rattle cans or did you use a sprayer. im thinking its ganna take alot of rattle cans to get what i want and i have a sprayer so buying by the gallon or quart sounds better to me

 

[bk95td]

The manifolds were wire wheeled and sprayed with rattle cans. Everything was sprayed with rattle cans. All the small parts would have been hard to shoot with a sprayer.I only used 3 spray cans of alpine green and 2 cans of primer. Maybe 1 1/2 cans aluminum and 1/2 can high heat aluminum. The prep on all the pieces is what really takes the time.The paint only magnifies the prep. A blast cabinet is on my must have list. It would help speed things up and make better surface to paint.

 

[SuperTuscan]

The manifolds were wire wheeled and sprayed with rattle cans. Everything was sprayed with rattle cans. All the small parts would have been hard to shoot with a sprayer.I only used 3 spray cans of alpine green and 2 cans of primer. Maybe 1 1/2 cans aluminum and 1/2 can high heat aluminum. The prep on all the pieces is what really takes the time.The paint only magnifies the prep.

What did you do about the fan thermostat to get between the cooling fins? Mine is pretty bad and I'd like to treat it with something that keeps ift from getting this bad again.

 

[Crankme69]

Very nice, nuttin better then restoration! Any fool can go drop $40K on somin new, what you have there is true workmanship the kind that you only find in restoration. Nice job, when are you gonna fire it?

 

[bk95td]

What did you do about the fan thermostat to get between the cooling fins? Mine is pretty bad and I'd like to treat it with something that keeps ift from getting this bad again.

A regular hand wire brush has wire long enough to reach the bottom of the fins.Sprayed with brake cleaner to get any grease off. Painted with aluminum engine paint. The paint keeps the aluminum from absorbing the grease and sticking as much.