Ace-Garageguy

I would go with Art's recommendation here. He's owned and restored old Fords with this engine color, and he usually knows what he's talking about. I've come across two "antique Ford engine green" paints in spray cans, supposed to be correct for 1:1 resto work, and they're quite different. One is a 'green' green, and one is a 'blue-gray' green. The cars I've seen with supposedly original paint on the engines leaned more to the blue-gray side, but I honestly have no idea what color the paint was when it was new, prior to more than 70 years of heating and cooling and weathering. Go with Art's suggestion.

Henry Ford, Charles Kettering and the Fuel of the Future http://www.environmentalhistory.org/billkovarik/about-bk/research/henry-ford-charles-kettering-and-the-fuel-of-the-future/

https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-resources/popular-topics/soy-bean-car/

Wrong. No offense intended, but you're confusing two totally unrelated things that sound alike. Sometimes it really is good to get your facts straight and know what you're talking about BEFORE you post. The "ethyl" you are mistakenly referring to is in fact the shortened name for TETRAETHYL LEAD that was the additive used in gasoline to raise octane rating back in the leaded-fuel days. http://www.britannica.com/science/tetraethyl-lead It had nothing whatsoever to do with ethyl-alcohol. You are, however, correct that alcohol fuel HAS been around for a while. Henry Ford himself was a strong proponent of using crop-based alcohol as a fuel to help bolster the US farm economy in the wake of the crash of 1929. Ford was also a leader in experimenting with structural materials based on renewable sources, like his "soy car", bodied with fiberglass-like panels made from plant products.

Read the 2001 article I posted earlier. Then read this one copyrighted 2016. Much change? Nah. The Rush To Corn-Based Ethanol: Not All Biofuels are Created Equalhttp://www.gracelinks.org/1181/the-rush-to-corn-based-ethanol-not-all-biofuels-are-created-equa

Yup. Doesn't have that bitter aftertaste the gasoline gives E85.

One of my all-time favorites...a chopped '36 3W. Looks good.

In the early '80s, I ran my triumph GT6 on Bacardi 151 just to see. Best smelling exhaust ever.

This essentially reflects my opinion on corn-ethanol as fuel. I admit I'm not current...this is a 2001 article. Things MAY have changed (but I doubt by much). Ethanol fuel from corn faulted as 'unsustainable subsidized food burning' in analysis by Cornell scientisthttp://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2001/08/ethanol-corn-faulted-energy-waster-scientist-says NOTE: I think alcohol fuel produced from WASTE biomass (and employing waste industrial heat that's normally dumped into the atmosphere to distill it) has tremendous potential, and I was involved with a pilot program that used SOLAR stills to refine alcohol to fuel-grade in the early 1980s. Two very logical and promising technologies we don't hear much about. Hmmmm. Logical. KILL IT! KILL IT DEAD!!!

In my admittedly jaded and cynical opinion, i believe the whole alcohol-fuel deal is one huge CYA scheme, intended to LOOK like the Fed and EPA are actually doing something while the reality is that they're desperately trying to AVOID doing anything that might turn out to be the wrong thing. Like I said, typical CYA, on a massive scale. Fuel alcohol from corn is a retard game. Last time I looked at numbers I believed, it still took MORE energy to make corn-based alcohol fuel than you get from it.

And to please to also to send a bottle of Black Bush as well please, under separate cover. Make it a case please.

Where did you get the novel idea that we live in a society where possible consequences of actions are considered BEFORE doing something? Geez, Harry.

At the moment, I don't have enough information. I do have access to the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) library, but I really don't have the time to research it to be in a position to make a definitive statement. I would probably run it in my old truck that's simple enough to fix by the side of the road. I would NOT run it in anything late-model EFI until I researched it thoroughly and read every SAE paper ever written on it.

No, mechanics are an endangered species. I can count the ones I know on one hand. Plenty of techs though...and they ALL have no clue.

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Easy answer. It'll run fine until it doesn't.

So glad you dinna call 'em "mechanics".

Hows 'bout 11 languages spoken by 11 or fewer people? http://mentalfloss.com/article/30888/11-languages-spoken-11-people-or-fewer

Not that late in the 1990s. The Corvette C5 came out in 1997, and had the trans in the REAR of the vehicle, not bolted to the engine. Honest. I just put a real one in a '47 Cadillac.

Whatever, but the exhaust manifolds (know what they are?) on the upper sprue are NOT 454 Chevy. Period. Just sayin'.

No. A 454 is a big-block engine, and has evenly spaced exhaust ports. Late model Corvettes have the trans in the rear.

The upper one has intake and exhaust ports configured like a smallblock Chebby. Timing cover and placement of the distributor drive and thermostat holes on the intake manifold are little Chebby also. That long snorkel on the air filter looks like an early '90s Chebby truck. The trans is GM 4L80 or close relatives. The other engine is missing the heads and other identifiers, but the ports on the exhaust manifolds are even like a Ford, a Chebby LS, or even a Mopar Hemi...though I don't believe the trans is Mopar.

"Octane" is a measure of a fuel's resistance to detonation in an internal combustion engine, nothing more, nothing less. A higher "octane" number is not in any way shape or form an indication that the fuel is more "powerful", as some people seem to believe. Straight ethanol has equivalent "octane" numbers of (RON) 108, and 89.7 (MON). These are two different tests that are sometimes averaged together to give another number R+M/2, 99.15. Adding ethanol to gasoline can indeed raise the fuel's resistance to detonation, but it may also contain less overall energy...making performance and fuel mileage suffer. As stated above, alcohol in fuel can have nasty effects on fuel system components that aren't designed to cope with it. Want to know the truth about YOUR car? Find an engineer inside Ford who knows what he's talking about. Or believe all the "experts" on the internet.

I've never heard that '44 Rosetta Tharp recording before. I mean, damm man. If that isn't rock-and-roll, I don't know what is.