Oaker57

Does anyone know if a "461 Winters" Intake manifold, was originally painted an aluminum color, or just left natural on a 64?

Oaker57

Anyone??

ghostrider20

I believe the sides (head to intake) were painted silver at the factory. More so the bare head area. From my faint memory of Noland's book, the painting was not done with any consistency, just some dude shootin silver paint in that area, so the varying degree of overspray onto the intake could vary.

anyChevy

I thought it was a little orange overspray over the natural aluminum if anything.

JohnZ

That's correct - because the aluminum intake and aluminum valve covers were covered with vacuum-formed masks in the paint booth, the machined inboard edges of the cylinder heads didn't get any orange paint (like they did with iron intakes and steel valve covers), so those machined surfaces got a "touch-up" pass with dull silver paint so they wouldn't be rusty in the showroom, and it usually oversprayed on the edges of the intake manifold and the bolts.

Oaker57

Thank you very much Gents.....