 Alright guys, so we got our block ready, we got it all clean, dry, torched it, and we got the Rust-Oleum Rusty Metal Primer and we got our brush. That's what it looks like in a can and we're going to just simply brush it on real nice and easy. Don't have to get all sloppy and nasty with it, just take your time and we're just going to cover everything with one good coat and then let it dry for probably about a good day. Getting this thing looking pretty, we're going to paint it, make it look good. So this is going to be a how to paint pretty much any engine block on the cheap with local supplies you can go get at Home Depot next to you or hardware store, stuff you can find on the shelf that don't cost an arm and a leg, especially if you're in a hurry to do this. And it'll be a very good looking paint job and one that will hold up for a long time. So we're going to go over a few things that you need before you start doing this as far as prep work and the materials that you need to get. Alright, so we pretty much already have the block prepped as far as some tape. We just taped off a few areas that I want to try to keep paint off of. Now the way we're going to do this, you don't need to go all crazy with a tape job. Just tape off a few things that will be hard to keep off of the areas you don't want to paint. But we are going to be using this stuff right here. We're going to brush it on. Yes, we're going to use a brush. We're not going to spray bomb it or rattle can it. We're going to brush the paint on. This is going to give us a much better paint job and it's going to be one that holds up for a long time. Now the first thing you're going to need to do is get you some acetone. This is the cheapest, best working way to clean this thing down. So you want to get some acetone. What I like to do is I'll put some in a squirt bottle like so and you're just going to spray everything that you need to paint down. Spray it down. The acetone will break down that oily nasty residue and then get you some preferably lint-free towels and just kind of wipe everything down real good. And then let it dry. You can get you a little blow gun like so. Blow it out. Blow all the little holds, the bolt holes, everything like that. Anything that could hold or retain any fluid. Now for the paint, what we're going to do, rust-oleum. Yep, we're using rust-oleum and we're going to use the rusty metal primer. That's going to be basically our first coat. We're going to put one good coat, nothing more than that. Just one good solid coat over everything that we want to paint with this. All right. This is, again, I went to the, as you can see, the home depot and we got this. This was on the shelf and I'm going to go with red. Yeah, I thought about doing like a hemi orange or whatever. But I want a red engine block. So we're going to do red. So we went with the gloss sunrise red. It's a really bright, has a lot of color, has a lot of life to it. It's a nice bright red. And that is the color we're going to go with for the BGE 392 block. Now for those that do want to go with like a hemi orange, what you want to look for, and it's kind of hard to find it sometimes, you can order it, but if you're lucky, you'll find it on the shelf as well. But you're looking for a Omaha Orange, I believe is what they call it for the Rust-Oleum brand. And it looks just like hemi orange. It's really, really close and it works well. But anyhow, this is what we're going with. So we got our color. We got our primer right here. We got some acetone. And we got a brush. This stuff is dirt cheap. And for the amount of product you're going to use to actually paint the engine block, there will be a ton of product left. And honestly, you're probably talking a paint job for less than five bucks. Now the products do cost a little bit more than that. I want to say I have maybe around 30 bucks or so in it, something like that. But for the amount of product you're going to use, it's literally a paint job for less than five bucks. And you'll have a ton of it left over to do another project with or something like that down the road. So you can't beat it. Now there is other products out there like from Eastwood, specifically for doing a project like this. But this is more for the guy that is doing something in his garage. It's late at night or whatnot. And you want to go down the road, get some paint off the shelf so you can do this overnight. And just get it done. But this stuff is good. It works good. It's going to look awesome. And it's going to hold up for a very, very long time. So yeah, nothing crazy. That's what we're going to go with guys. So hang tight. We're going to get everything set up. We're going to start cleaning this engine block down. And there's one more very important step that you need to do prep wise before you start laying down to paint. So stay tight. Let's get to it. All right guys. So we have our spray bottle here with acetone. We're going to get to cleaning. We're going to just basically spray down everything that we want to paint on the block with some good old acetone. So it'll break down all that oily residue, nastiness, stuff like that. And then we're going to wipe it down, dry it off real good and go on to the next step. So let's get to it. Mopar fam. So now that we got everything wiped down with acetone, we got a pretty much clean of oil and majority of the solids that we can get off. Next step, you're going to need a torch. And the reason you're going to need a torch is we're going to heat up this metal. And what it's going to do is actually pull out the moisture out of the block. You know, these blocks are very, very porous. And deep down and in pores, you're going to have moisture, you're going to have maybe a little bit of oil residue still, stuff like that. And this heat is going to pull that out, extract it, it's going to burn it off. It's going to dry the block very, very well. Very important before you put the primer down. That way that primer will have a very, very good solid surface. It's clean and water free to adhere to. You should be able to see this happen kind of on the camera here. So that's pretty much the process. As you can see right here, it's very, it's very dull looking, it's very dry. Everything around it, you can kind of see it still got moisture in it. So that's pretty much the idea. You're just trying to get all of the liquid and water and any material, solvents, whatever, in that block, trying to pull it out and just get it gone. So we're going to keep going at this until it's all done. The spot that I just did, you kind of see it's very dry looking, it's dull looking compared to the rest of it. You can really, you can literally see the moisture kind of come out as it's drying everything out. So we're going to go over this entire thing. This is probably the thing that takes the longest to do, but we're going to go over the whole thing. And then after that, we'll be ready to lay some primer down. So here we go. So we got our block ready. We got it all clean, dry, torched it. And we got the Rust-Oleum Rusty Metal Primer. And we got our brush. That's what it looks like in the can. And we're going to just simply brush it on real nice and easy. Don't have to get all sloppy and nasty with it. Just take your time. And we're just going to cover everything with one good coat and then let it dry for probably about a good day. The Rusty Metal Primer on the engine block. And as you can see, we used like nothing. Barely any product. That's what I said, this stuff goes a long way. And you can use it for a lot of other projects. All right. So this is with our first coat of the Rusty Metal Primer from Rust-Oleum. And as it's drying, it's, it's, it's getting pretty dry. But you can see it's, it's laying down nice and flat. It just provides a really, really good surface. This came out looking pretty good. You still see it's a little wet right here. Still drying. Every now and then you may get a run. But with a paintbrush, you can just kind of dab it and just kind of keep working it. And it'll, it'll flatten out real nice when it dries. The top part was the last part that we just painted. So it's still pretty wet. But I'm really liking the finish so far with the primer already looks so much better. And that is with just one coat. And that is all you need. This stuff goes on pretty thick. It does a really good job as far as covering all that porous material works really, really good. So we're going to let this dry overnight and give it, give it a good 24 hours to dry up and cure. And then we're going to come back with our gloss sunrise red. All right. So I think that's going to do it for today. We're going to let this primer dry, let it lay down and fully cure for about 24 hours. And then we'll come back with part two of laying the color down and getting it really nice and bright. So don't forget, give the video a thumbs up, comment down below what you think of the outcome so far. And as always, stay safe out there and we'll see you guys on the next one.