Exhaust heat shield, paint?

The motors were painted with the shields and manifolds on them. Most of of the shield will get painted with over-spray collected on the top surface. The shield is sandwiched between the exhaust manifold and head like a gasket, but it isn't a gasket. So it has to get some paint on it.

I would paint without the exhaust manifold on the motor to get good paint coverage underneath them for durability. Even though the factory didn't do this.

Then put manifolds and heat shield on and continue to paint. Ground strap, neg batt cable, and water pump bypass were installed during painting.

Drain plugs were not on the motor when they got painted. So they are never painted.

FABO member ns1rm21 painted this is a 69 340 Los Angeles built Dart motor that was a 55K original mile engine that you could see paint on the original parts. He paints them with primer so the color coat has uniform consistent shades. Otherwise painting over dark bare cast iron, bare light silver aluminum, bare sheet metal will bleed through to the color coat and give the appearance of different shades.

This particular motor did not have painted spark plug holders. But other original '69's have painted holders.

I know of an original 71 340 orange motor in a Feb 1970 built LA plant car with a black dipstick handle. There are many other 71's like that too. And 70 T/A and AAR motors are this way too.