Advice on painting the motor

I got some engine paint from Autozone and applied it to the motor lastnight, only to find out this morning that i can peal it right off wiyh my fingernail. What gives? :evil:

 

You need to heat the paint to cure it.. Take the bike out for a ride..

 

Be kinda hard to heat it up since the motors out of the frame, so i guess ill just paint the thing with a couple of good coats, but it'll have to wait till its put back together to cure. Thanx

 

I used a special spraypaint that is made for engines, rated up to real hot temps. Bought it at Canadian Tire so it's readily available and not pricy for sure.

 

You could try heating it with a heat gun.. The kind designed to peel paint off windows.. Just be careful not to get it too hot for too long, and don't melt anything.. Here's an idea of what kinda temperatures you want to look at:

http://www.ratwell.com/technical/Temps.html

 

Make sure you pressure wash engine first

 

Bought motorpaint from eastwood worked great for me

 

Yeah a big heat lamp seams to do the trick, i started out with flat black but that did'nt do it for me, so i switched to glassy black to give it a bit of a shine.

Left all the covers bare including the top one, then im gonna sand the edge of each fins off should look pretty cool with the blacked out look im going for. :idea:

 

Yeah. It does. I've got the same with flat black.

 

Flat black is cool as well, just not work'in for me on this project.

 

Make sure all oil and grease are removed before painting.......

 

Yeah man, i believe i got it all, the paint seams to be sticking on pretty well. Now i got a nice glossy black motor with soon to be polished covers. It was pretty tough getting the motor high enough off the gerage floor to clean the bottom part of the motor because of the weight of it.

So i had an old stableliser bar from one of my old 1/2 ton pickups, and i cut the ends off wich gave me a bar that would'nt bend under the weight of the motor, and slid it threw the back two bushing holes and propped it up on two spare tires, that alowed me to flip the motor back and forth for oil draining, cleaning, and painting, plus i can throw in the shim replacement, and what ever else i need to do to it.