Since I am rebuilding my engine, I needed to find a color as close to original as possible.

 

I found some Dupont codes, but somehow they couldn't convert that here or where not using it anymore..

 

A friend who lives nearby, who's also on the forum here, had a bracket laying around that still contained some of the original color..

 

I had it matched up at a paint shop into cans, what do you guys think of it?

 

In the flash picture, you can see the blue more, but in normal daylight it's like the blue/turquoise..

 

 

 

That looks very close to my motor mount too.  I'll get a picture up later when I'm home from work.

 

Turquoise is a good descriptive. 

This is what it looks outside when dryed..

 

I went with Pontiac Bluish-Green engine paint from Duplicolor.  Seemed pretty close, unless you want to buy the official reblend of Datsun Blue.

I have a whole, unused can that I bought from Les Cannady that I will give you.  PM me

This is what it looks outside when dryed..

 

That's real close to what my Dupicolor Old Ford Blue came out like.  The cap matched a lot better than the actual paint, it had some green in it (the cap) but when I painted the block it came out bluer.  I call it Bud Lite Blue.  Also thought about respraying with Pontiac Blue like Jarvo used.

 

It's amazing how different your paint looks in the different pictures, lighting.

 

Edited July 13, 201510 yr by siteunseen

Hey Bart,

Banzai sells can of the datsun engine colour.

http://zzxdatsun.com/catBits.php

If you need an alternative to 240tom for some reason.

I'm happy with the Pontiac blue/turquoises

 

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Edited July 13, 201510 yr by Jarvo2

Now that looks good!  Makes me mad I didn't chose Pontiac to begin with, oh well.

I had the paint matched with original paint that was still on a bracket, so it must be like 97% close ?

I believe I purchased my "Datsun blue" from DatsunPartsLLC. It also looks different with and without flash. 

 

 

 

Yeah, Datsunparts llc, something not quite right about the colour.

Banzai has a very close matching colour from what I have read from other forum users.