Replacing the engine

I am replacing the engine in the Starship. What would be a good color to paint it?

What are Olds engine colors? Gold or blue?

What about the car color?

Its a star ship. It needs an all white motor!

Am I the only one who thought "replacing the engine and the COLOR is the big question?"

How about what cam, heads, oil pump, etc???

I say gold, btw.

or displacement, turbo or blower....decisions decisions.....

I suggest an Olds 455 with a Saginaw 4-spd behind it. Gold of course.

It is getting a cam, headers, dual exhausts with Flowmasters, larger TBI,adjustable FP regulator, police injectors, and reprogrammed computer. I am doing a few small things like the rear main seal, front seal, and gaskets. I am putting the trans from the donor in as well. The drive train has 103K on it, and my original drive train has 265K on it,

I opened the engine today, and it is really sanitary inside. I need to either patch the hole in the oil pan, thanks to LKQ, or get another oil pan, and a dipstick tube/dipstick that got damaged in transport. So, color is about the only issue.

Do I have to use the manifold washers with the headers, or can I just use bolts, or studs?

I am contemplating purchasing a cheap wire welder from Harbor Freight to fix the oil pan, and make the hump for the exhaust on the dirver's side. I have torch welded, but I have notarc welded, so it should take me about 15 minutes to figure it out. The local shops want an arm and a leg to weld stuff, and I only have a finger or two. If I do it myself, it costs me about the same, and I get to keep the welder.

BigBlackBeaSSt wrote:

Its a star ship. It needs an all white motor!

no wait! its white haha. I thought the red one. never saw a white motor tho. what the heck, go for it

There was a guy on issf that did a white frame on show car...

I think white is problematic. I do not keep the engine bay clean enough. What will hide dirt?

Silver!!!

Sprocket wrote:

or displacement, turbo or blower....decisions decisions.....

I suggest an Olds 455 with a Saginaw 4-spd behind it. Gold of course.

big olds would shred the saginaw,.

would a 350 400 style dipstick tube fit a 700? I have a billet style one chrome new 27" LENGTH. free if it fits.

CarloNYC wrote:

would a 350 400 style dipstick tube fit a 700? I have a billet style one chrome new 27" LENGTH. free if it fits.

Is this an engine dipstick? Fits a 700? If it fits the LO3, it will fit the LO5. If it is a transmission dipstick tube, I have a good one. I do not know what the length of the dipstick tube is.

transmission. th350 th400

What color are Dylithium Crystals? Mr Spock would know?

Trans is 700R4, same as stock. I am leaning toward blue or orange. The orange may not look good with the red body. I also contemplating the manifold in white and the rest in blue.

Fred Kiehl wrote:

I am leaning toward blue or orange.

Glad you said OR instead of AND. Boolean expressions are important wheras Gator Fans are not, lol.