I stumbled across oven baking by accident researching paints on another forum and someone suggested using the home oven. There was alot of different reactions to people using your everyday kitchen oven due to chemicals and food mixing aswell as the fumes so I found a free giveaway working oven on Gumtree and used my dedicated 15A PowerPoint I have installed in the fusebox for the caravan and it works fine. Considering you don't crank the oven up full ball and run the griller at the same time it doesn't draw anywhere near full current. I figured that engine enamel paint is better than normal automotive paint and the Dupli Color brand seemed more recommended online then VHT and everyone was baking there engine parts with success. I had a choice of Hemi Orange, Rocket Red & Chevrolet Orange-Red, the guy at the auto store put all the colours side by side and I compared the colours with the fuel tank I hadent stripped down yet and Chevrolet Orange was the best match (don't confuse it with Chevrolet Orange-Red). Anyways I let the paint dry outside for 1-2 hours then stuck it in the oven for 1 hour at 95C-100C, the results are amazing and the finish is flawless. I gave it 2 light coats of primer and 3 coats of paint (2 light coats and one wet coat). All coats were done with in 1 hour as instructed on the can and re-coats applied after 10 minutes. I was pleased with the results as this was my first attempt with baking paint and I had no problems, just remember to remove anything plastic or rubber that may melt I left the oil sump plugs in and they were fine. Engine is complete just waiting for decals to arrive, some paint did chip on the bolts when I put it all together so you may have to wait longer for the paint to cure but I just touched them up by spraying the paint in the lid and using a paint brush and you can't even notice it.
