NOTE: This thread is to document the progress of repainting and installing a rebuilt 1957 truck engine that will go into my 1955 truck. I'll share my observations on POR-15 engine paint and their "system" for applying it. Click on the thumbnail size images for the larger view. I am using thumbnails to help out those using dial-up modems.
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Some of you may remember the horror story of my rebuilt Champion Six motor that was dropped on its end by a freight company back in February of this year. Well, after a couple of months of haggling with the claims department and providing all kinds of detailed documentation, they authorized the rebuilder to re-use any good parts, get whatever new parts were needed, and start over.
Several months later, the engine has now arrived at my house, and waits in the garage for a nice red paint job, like the ones Bill Cathcart puts on his Champion rebuilds:
Mine will look like the one on his home page, with Offenhauser dual intake, and Cathcart's handmade dual exhaust headers. Only difference is the head. Wish I could afford a shiny finned aluminum head, but my powdercoated "near chrome" cast iron head looks pretty good, although "near shiny gray" is a better description of the color.
[img=left]http://rocketdillo.com/studebaker/restoration/thm-motor-ready-for-paint-left.JPG[/img=left] Click image for a larger view
I especially want to thank our sometimes forum poster, Bunzard, for telling me about the rebuilder in Cheyenne Wyoming, and for helping get it to him, and finally for helping get it bolted to a pallet and crated. This was a valuable step that was done differently the first time, which I believe contributed to the catastrophe.
In a few weeks or a month, when it finally gets into my truck, we will have a happy ending, with a six cylinder flathead Champion engine (originally from a 1957 Transtar, according to SN 1E-11304) that has been reportedly dyno'ed at 195 hp, doubling the power of the stock engine. With my rear end changed to 4.09, and the overdrive actuated, I should do just fine on the interstate - maybe drive it to South Bend for next year's meet.
Now, I gotta work on improving the brakes!
[img=left]http://rocketdillo.com/studebaker/misc/images/Current_Avacar.gif[/img=left] - DilloCrafter
1955 1/2 Ton Pickup
The Red-Headed Amazon
Deep in the heart of Texas
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Some of you may remember the horror story of my rebuilt Champion Six motor that was dropped on its end by a freight company back in February of this year. Well, after a couple of months of haggling with the claims department and providing all kinds of detailed documentation, they authorized the rebuilder to re-use any good parts, get whatever new parts were needed, and start over.
Several months later, the engine has now arrived at my house, and waits in the garage for a nice red paint job, like the ones Bill Cathcart puts on his Champion rebuilds:
Mine will look like the one on his home page, with Offenhauser dual intake, and Cathcart's handmade dual exhaust headers. Only difference is the head. Wish I could afford a shiny finned aluminum head, but my powdercoated "near chrome" cast iron head looks pretty good, although "near shiny gray" is a better description of the color.
[img=left]http://rocketdillo.com/studebaker/restoration/thm-motor-ready-for-paint-left.JPG[/img=left] Click image for a larger view
I especially want to thank our sometimes forum poster, Bunzard, for telling me about the rebuilder in Cheyenne Wyoming, and for helping get it to him, and finally for helping get it bolted to a pallet and crated. This was a valuable step that was done differently the first time, which I believe contributed to the catastrophe.
In a few weeks or a month, when it finally gets into my truck, we will have a happy ending, with a six cylinder flathead Champion engine (originally from a 1957 Transtar, according to SN 1E-11304) that has been reportedly dyno'ed at 195 hp, doubling the power of the stock engine. With my rear end changed to 4.09, and the overdrive actuated, I should do just fine on the interstate - maybe drive it to South Bend for next year's meet.
Now, I gotta work on improving the brakes!
[img=left]http://rocketdillo.com/studebaker/misc/images/Current_Avacar.gif[/img=left] - DilloCrafter
1955 1/2 Ton Pickup
The Red-Headed Amazon
Deep in the heart of Texas
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