Paint the engine, is it possible?

[ducatiz]

Anyone who considers painting seriously (=removing engine), think about it at least FIVE times first.
Requires redicolous amount of time, sandblasting, masking etc. There is alot of cavities, fins etc.....

what did you paint it with, a 0000 brush?

spend 2 hours masking for every 10 minutes painting and you are fine, and don't plan to do it all in one afternoon. 

or you can just take the heads and jugs off.  it's not that big of a deal to put them back on, and if you have a blaster, then you can bead blast the chamber and clean it up..

[He Man]

taking the bike apart = taking the bike apart. I plan on 8 hours with organizing everything.

If it comes down to it this is how i would do it.

Drop the engine
Mask off the intake and exahust with a sheet of metal and silicone seal it shut.

Put it on a table. Spend $60 bucks on 100lbs of soda blasting media (which is probably more than enough) and blast it completely clean. Good thing about soda is that it wont harm plastics, rubbers, or metal surfaces. That will take about 2 hours to fully blast off.

Then remove the heads(while im in there...FBF 1080hicomp/big bore kit is only $420! i can send out the heads to get machined and coated for another $400ish) remove the side covers and valve covers.

spend 2 hours masking everything off, but since everything is getting the same color its just a matter of masking what you dont want to get painted. which is only hard if you have no patience.

If you do what they did to MAgnus' bike, its just spray can  the self etching primer coats (1 hour?) spray on the top coat (1 hour?) powder coat the covers (1 hour).

Sounds like i could do it in 2 weekends complete disassemble and assemble.

This is only because i own a soda blaster and a powdercoating setup in my garage with air tools to boot.  All i need is a motorcycle stand so im not sitting on the floor.

[ducpainter]

I'd pay to watch you mask an engine.

[He Man]

I'd pay to watch you mask an engine.

how much you paying?

[djrashonal]

Oh no, this isnt gonna turn into another one of those "what dirty things would He Man do for money" threads again is it? 

[He Man]

we had one of those??

[djrashonal]

you were too busy soda blasting your newly dismantled engine to notice  speaking of which, come out here with all that shhtuff and clean up my engine, i can pay you in Maize -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maize#Maize_as_a_commodity

[He Man]

bro im chinese. we dont give 2 shits about corn.

pay me in rice and ill think about it.

[djrashonal]

bro im chinese. we dont give 2 shits about corn.

pay me in rice and ill think about it.

Damn, i should have had you write my Asian philosophy paper I just spent the past 6 hrs on......


In regards to engine painting, what goes into taking off the alternator cover and the engine cover on the clutch side? can I just pull those off and PC them?

[He Man]

pretty much. youd need a new gasket. and you have to remove the wire that goes into generator cover. then you need to remove the glass viewing screen and then do the whole coating.

im not sure how you do that though. which is why im probably just going to spray paint mine.

[djrashonal]

so, drain the oil, unscrew covers, unplug wires, mask holes and sight glass spray paint, reverse...is that about right? am I missing anything on that?

[ducatiz]

bro im chinese. we dont give 2 shits about corn.

pay me in rice and ill think about it.

i thought you guys ate everything?  I'll raise his corn with 2 cuttlefish and the brain of a giraffe.

I'd pay to watch you mask an engine.

I've done it.  It's not fun, and you have to go slow.  I took 2 days to mask mine and I painted in-frame (not hard on the GTL frame).    i spent the first day tapin' and cussin' and finished, went and had dinner, slept on it, and then came and inspected my work the next day.. tweaked some and then painted. 

[ducpainter]

how much you paying?

I'll pay by the hour...

and then deduct for all the paint that gets on stuff you masked.

You'll end up owing me money.

[He Man]

You'll end up owing me money.

dont be so sure about that. ill take my  sweet time and rack up the hours like a lawyer

[junior varsity]

bazinga!