Engine Paint

Options for Custom Colour Engine Paint

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Edit: This is a question for a water cooled bike, not mine.

 

Duplicolor makes an entire line of engine enamel in all sorts of colors.

 

Not the colour we're lookin for tho :/

 

OK, so what color ARE you looking for?

 

go to napa (sp) and have them mix up some paint?

 

How about the trick Black - Body - Emitter paint that sheds 20 % more heat than bare aluminum? This is different from standard paint that would tend to insulate due to thickness. Where the heck do we get THIS paint??

 

NASA? MIB?? The planet Krypton??? WHAT color already???

 

Sry for not gettin back fitz. i was cleaning Virago carbs. We're thinkin of doing a burnt orange or copper on a magna engine, with silver frame and copper tins.

The landlord of the building actually is the owner of the Napa right beside the shop, so we've got good connections with Napa, and they can't mix the colour we need in anything we can use on an engine.

So we were looking for options.

 

take a look here
https://www.kgcoatings.com/

 

Duplicolor color chart: "High heat" shouldn't be necessary, that gives you 35 chioces in "engine enamel."

http://www.duplicolor.com/products/colors/highheat.html

POR-15 makes engine enamel too: http://www.por15.com/prodinfo.asp?grp=EE&dept=7

As does Valspar, under the PlastiKote name: http://www.plastikote.com/plastikote/au ... gineEnamel

 

PJ1 might be a source...

 

Any suggestions on how to prep the engine for a painting?

 

I think was your looking for is next to impossible - I work for an auto parts store and we went through this with a customer before. I can't remember the exact reasoning that our paint rep had, but basically his answer was solid colors only, no metallics in high heat paint. Furthermore, he told us that any 'high heat/engine' paint that was metallic wouldn't hold up.

 

If you want black, BBQ paint works perfect. I did mine with a brush and it laid down very well, no brush marks. It very touch stuff. I did my wood stove sith it two years ago and it lasts in the heat. I think it looks well with flat black engine and polished side cases that shine like chrome.

 

dude, jsut did my engine with the 500 semi gloss, looks great! very glossy!!! goin out to take some pics...
now i jsut need a dremmel to shine up the engine fins

 

That's what we're looking for, solid colour, didn't mention metallic

 

heres the pics... i really like the gloss, but if you want flat black use the vht flame proof stuff..

 

Wow, that gloss DOES look nice..

 

I don't think there's any need for "high heat" paint.
The normal operating temperature is going to be around 220ºF-240ºF. Your oil will begin to burn over 300ºF.
I can see ceramic paint for headers, but a good alkyd enamel will hold up fine for cylinder fins.
If you wanted to be sure, and get a truly superior finish, you could have them powdercoated.

Before you paint aluminum, you have to remove all signs of oil, dirt, and corrosion. Media blasting is really the only way.

But if all else fails just paint it. The factory paint never lasted any more than 3 seasons, so what do you expect?