chevy orange or black?

Go orange, you need a little contrast with the black and Chevy orange matches every color too.

 

You would need expensive and extensive laboratory equipment to measure the difference between black and any other color. A water cooled engine sheds very little heat via thermal radiation compared to the heat lost via the cooling system.

 

its painted already

 

Black - runs cooler, won't show leaks as bad, easy to touch up, shows off chrome much better, all round you can't go wrong with black.

 

I know it's too late but one thing that can look pretty cool is to start with a clean block and pinstripe it everywhere on the raw cast surface. Let the rest of the block rust. The contrast can look really wicked.

Some people can't handle the rust though.

Butch

 

OK, some of you missed it. Its now orange. Its somewhat of a 60's hotrod, so.... they weren't black then, car color matching is too custom, so its orange. I've never painted one anything but orange. Don't know what I was thinkin!

 

lol.. good choice, i knew you'd come back to reality

 

My last motor build I did the Pontiac Blue..

 

Chevy got it right the first time around..... Orange!

 

maple syrple!

 

Orange. I have one in black and hate it. The rest are in orange and I like the way they look.

 

Definitely Chevy orange!
My sbc in my sedan is black. My thought was heat dissipation. The question I get all the time now: Is that a crate motor? Arrrrgh!

 

here is gold my favorite