I Was Nervous to Paint My Engine Block BUT IT CAME OUT GREAT!!

[@lathropedition]

Showing my 8 year old daughter your awesome work! Way to be a real representative for young children.

[@ElliesGarage]

That's so great and THANK YOU for that encouragement! It will mean so much to her!

[@danclark1121]

I have a 64 falcon 383 stroker 530 horse good luck with yours I love mine

[@olskoolsgarage9987]

Awesome!! Just a piece of advice, before you start building it, get a tap and die set and “chase” all the bolt holes to be sure there’s no filings in them and it’ll help the build go faster as well!!

[@hkshahidi2794]

Yes this is a great tip. Do it when the engine is out and you can reach everything quite easily.

[@ElliesGarage]

@@hkshahidi2794 Yes! We're trying to think through everything we need to do while the engine is out!

[@OneMechanic]

Congrats on the paint and your finals... keep up the awesome work

[@ElliesGarage]

Thanks!

[@artgibbens1730]

I hope you oiled down the cylinder walls so they don't get rusty. It's always fun to see before and after shots when painting. It is amazing what a little elbow grease and good paint work can do to transform a project.

[@ElliesGarage]

Yes, it was really scary how fast the rust formed. We rubbed them down and then put some WD40 on them. They're looking good now!

[@BeardedSeabee82]

Paintjob looked great! Also congrats on acing your final👍👍👍

[@ElliesGarage]

Thanks! I get my grades class by class, but so far - all As!

[@that_66_mustang27]

I recognized that motor in a heartbeat

[@CPthetooladdict]

Great video once again love the enthusiasm!

[@Toyotas_n__Tools]

Dude Ellie is a BOSS! I really like her clean informative content.

[@ElliesGarage]

Thank you so much!

[@byler390]

Nice job, I bought the 2k Eastwood paint for my FE390. Keep up the great work!

[@rafaelmercado5771]

Looks perfect how’s it holding up I want to paint my calipers red I don’t know if I should use epoxy primer or regular primer

[@NanDo-fm2cg]

Keep it up, you're doing a really good job. Looking forward to next week. Congrats on your good grades.

[@ElliesGarage]

Thank you! And, yeah, I'm pretty proud of my grades for this year!

[@kathycarter736]

Awesome, Ellie! Great job!

[@brandonyork9871]

Great job💪

[@karlx-1]

You GO young lady!!!

[@larrybrenner4379]

I am very happy to see young people learning about cars. Many years ago my brother took me to the local garage to show me a car. It was a 49 ford that had died on the highway and was towed in. He explained to me that they only wanted $15 for it and if you don't buy it I am going to! It was pea green and it was ugly. I looked under the back of it and it had dual pipes; I was sold. We went home and took the rims and tires off of his car and came back and towed this car home. I think I knew less than you. My brother was a good teacher and I became a mechanic in life. I learned engine building, body and fender work, painting, welding, auto electric. At that time we did not have Eastman but we had Honest Charley out of Tennessee. I also like Falcons and have a 63 1/2 2 door hardtop. I traded some car bodies for it. It was wreaked in front, found another that was also wreaked and put the core support on the one I liked. I have never finished it, or drove it. Got it in the 70's. Over the years I have found a lot of parts for it. The last thing I found was 13 inch 5 hole rims. I have got the last wire hubcap for it now. I am thinking that I should paint the rims and install new tires on them. My daughter also got to work on cars, but did not like the experience to much. But she is pretty handy now at fifty. Wash machine, and dish washer and computers. Keep up the good work, you have a great Dad for helping you.

[@ElliesGarage]

What a great story about your car! I'm lucky to have a good teacher in my dad. I know that I'm really lucky.

[@keithridlen7122]

I'm in the process of painting my block, how did your paint hold up overtime? Have you already done a follow up video?

[@romanjaspe4172]

Congratulation

[@Z1000_1]

Just seen a similar vid and he put 3 coats on top of primer it was a motorbike engine so I think he got three coats with just one can. I do appreciate your engine is much bigger but I'd be tempted to do 2 or three coats.

[@Toyotas_n__Tools]

Giving me more and more ideas now Im thinking about just clear coating the bare metal on my new head, i think it would look really good that way =) but yes thank you to eastwood for making this happen!

[@ElliesGarage]

That would look cool!

[@xESPplayer500x]

How long does the smell take to go away?

[@Captain_Zero_]

How much paint and primer did it take to cover?

[@justwrenchit9287]

Awesome sponsorship!

[@mistereldad3986]

Great videos. How do y’all only have 600 subs?

[@ElliesGarage]

Thank you! We're working on that!

[@brandonyork9871]

65 ford truck would be a cool on next build more do easy more trick you learn biggest mistake worry about making mistake not do anything

[@ElliesGarage]

Those trucks are so cool!

[@keithskustoms2311]

I think it should be blue

[@ElliesGarage]

We had wondered about that as well. When we did some research, we actually found out that the early 1965 200ci engines were done in the black/red paint scheme and that it wasn't until around June of 65 that they started painting all of the 200 engines blue. When we looked at Carl's tag, it said his engine was made in May of 65, so we stuck with the original color scheme. Plus, we had already kind of fallen in love with it.

[@tombryant1104]

Before 1966 model year, no engine had the now classic Ford dark blue paint(never the medium blue used on some earlier valve covers). June '65 would have been approx date switchover to '66 models began. Through '65 blocks were black with valve cover color varying by displacement & brand. Mercury engines were often different color than Ford. Prior to '59, blocks were various colors & valve covers black.

[@stephenfaulkner1448]

Leave her be. Its her engine and she can paint it pink if she wants.

[@tombryant1104]

@@stephenfaulkner1448 OK bright star... If you watch videos, it's obvious she was excited to paint engine correctly. That she has. I was merely confirming 1965 engines were not blue.