Painted the oil pan today

[itsbudda]

Having had a hole just welded shut in it, last step was some good old rust preventing paint. I just used what the paint we had. Some 10 year old cans of "ocean blue" paint. Figured OK. My car's blue. This could turn out decently. Call me crazy, but i expected it to turn out blue.
What i got was a nice riceresque "OCEAN BLUE!!"

I don't think it's too terrible for a 10 minute rattlecan job, although it's certainly not great. I still have another coat to do. I do plan to redo it eventually with actual engine paint, but this is a good quick temporary fix. I find this color embarrassing actually, just how outlandishly bright it is on a darker car. When I repaint it I'm definitely going darker, like black, or a blue that actually matches the car.

At least an oil leak will be easy to spot now.

[detobias]

looks almost exactly like the old chrysler blue ChryCo used to paint engine parts with

my block is now Chev orange (dont shoot me)

this is a good time to think about adding a windage tray and crank scraper

[ol"blue]

With the hood shut no one can see it any way. Unless they're laying under your car!
Look at it this way. At least you didn't have a thread 4-pages long asking people "HOW DO I PAINT MY OIL PAN" !!!

[detobias]

get out from under my car, MOFO

[mark joseph]

put a big stp sticker on it and pretend you're the king

[itsbudda]

Yeah that's pretty much spot on the stp color?

And yeah. I don't think i'd waste td's time asking how to paint stuff. especially from a rattlecan.

To my surprise and joy, it actually turned out darker upon drying an hour.

Not exact, but it's pretty close

Yeah and the paint's older than i thought. Still has a price tag on it from Van Leunens. Anybody even remember that chain? I think they closed in like, 94?

[shotgunhunter4]

very pretty

[itsbudda]

Thanks. I don't totally hate the color. For 20 year old paint i can't complain.