440 Engine Block Color

[RR Fan Dan]

What color was the Plymouth Roadrunner 440 block for 1974? Plymouth Blue or Hemi Orange? Also what color was the intake?

 

[dfrazz]

Engine Paint Color Guide – MyMopar

 

[Jerry Hall]

I believe it was called Corporate Blue.

 

[69Bee]

"Corporate Blue" was a GM moniker IIRC. Mopar just called it blue.

To the OP, I still have 2 cans of Mopar Blue engine paint P4349217AB left if your interested.

 

[Hemirunner]

I had to put a little corporate blue on my TH400 before I could put it in a mopar…

 

[440 PHIXX]

1971 MY was the last for the orange.

 

[WileE]

As stated, blue for the engine including intake.

 

[69Coronetrt]

Engine Paint Color Guide – MyMopar

That chart is filled with known inaccuracies. I wish it and all of its variants could be removed from the internet.

 

[Cranky]

Same blue as a 70 Challenger 4 barrel 383 was?

 

[R413]

The engine has most of the parts on it before it was painted at the factory. Water pump, water neck, balancer, valve covers, intake and exhaust manifolds, oil pump, oil pan, spark plugs and plug wire brackets, ets.

Things not on it were the pullies, alternator and brackets, carb and choke thermostat, engine mounting brackets on the block.

Different years and engine families did different things on temp senders, negative battery cable, vacuum fitting in back of intake, oil dipstick and tube, etc

 

[440 PHIXX]

Same blue as a 70 Challenger 4 barrel 383 was?

I think the blue showed up in ‘69 on the 273 and 318. ‘69 non HP big blocks were still turquoise.

 

[WileE]

I think the blue showed up in ‘69 on the 273 and 318.

They were red.