Author Topic: 74 CB750 Navy Style (Read 80466 times)

Harsh · « **Reply #50 on:** May 29, 2012, 10:48:36 AM »

Last of the engine parts prepped and ready for paint.

Harsh · « **Reply #51 on:** June 02, 2012, 01:57:30 PM »

Today was an absolutely beautiful day to go riding, but what did I do...worked on the CB of course. I managed to prime and paint the engine. I wasn't able to get the heads back from my buddy's shop because he closed up early. No big deal as I can pick them up Monday. He let me put the parts in his powder coat heating booth to cure the paint. Everything was painted with VHT's high temp paint.

All primed:

All painted:

Stev-o · « **Reply #52 on:** June 02, 2012, 02:44:31 PM »

Looks great. What color?

Harsh · « **Reply #53 on:** June 02, 2012, 06:52:35 PM »

The case is universal silver and the head & jugs I used GM satin black.

Harsh · « **Reply #54 on:** June 04, 2012, 01:07:46 PM »

Picked up the head and jugs this afternoon. They turned out pretty well. A little final polishing on the edges and they are going to pop.

Stev-o · « **Reply #55 on:** June 04, 2012, 05:02:13 PM »

Looks great. Like the detail on the 736 numbers

Harsh · « **Reply #56 on:** June 06, 2012, 02:47:55 PM »

Picked up the powder coated parts today. They look good. I think he sprays a little thick which is going to cause a problem on the top of the fork lowers. I taped in the grooves so I could come back later and pc the grooves in the blue. Because his spray is so thick it is extremely difficult to remove the tape without pulling the powder coat off the top of the groove. It is going to require lots of patience when removing the tape. I am going to having to very carefully cut through the edge of the pc to get a clean line down to the tape in order to remove it.

Not sure what is up with my camera. Every time I took a pic it had this strange blue hue to it.

SOHC4 Cafe Racer Fan · « **Reply #57 on:** June 06, 2012, 04:57:26 PM »

Great color -- the frame photo really shows off the blue.

brandEn · « **Reply #58 on:** June 06, 2012, 05:04:30 PM »

Are the fork lowers and brake bits silver? Everything is gonna look great. Can't wait to see you put this one together.

nomad · « **Reply #59 on:** June 06, 2012, 05:14:24 PM »

Double check, but I'm not entirely sure the shock mounts will work right if they're left powder coated. You may need to take it off the upper mounts.

Harsh · « **Reply #60 on:** June 06, 2012, 08:51:40 PM »

Yes the forks and front brake bits are silver. The swingarm was supposed to be silver as well. However, I dropped it off at the powder coaters a week after I dropped off all of the other parts and completely forgot to tell him what color. He figured it would be blue like the rest of the stuff. I am debating whether to bead blast and redo it in the silver.

There are a few spots where I am going to have to remove a little powder coat to get things to fit properly.

Harsh · « **Reply #61 on:** June 07, 2012, 03:33:55 PM »

I managed to get the tape out of the grooves on the fork lowers. Now I get to re-tape and pc the grooves in blue. I took a better pic of the silver in the sun so you could see the light shimmer to it.

brandEn · « **Reply #62 on:** June 07, 2012, 03:38:15 PM »

NICE!

Stev-o · « **Reply #63 on:** June 07, 2012, 03:41:17 PM »

Very nice!

Harsh · « **Reply #64 on:** June 07, 2012, 03:43:37 PM »

Still debating if I want to re-do the swingarm. I wanted it in the silver to match the forks. Part of me says it will be just fine the way it is, but the other part of me says that I will always notice it and it will bother me. Thoughts?

brandEn · « **Reply #65 on:** June 07, 2012, 03:49:21 PM »

I would leave it. Matching swingarm looks good. Different color swingarm, cant say I have seen a CB like that.

neevo · « **Reply #66 on:** June 07, 2012, 03:50:12 PM »

Quote from: 754 on February 23, 2012, 08:59:12 PM

Razor blades?? try a soft hammer... quicker..

Really!!!!! Oh, that sounds clever, I wonder of YouTube has any vids of masking.

Cheers.

Harsh · « **Reply #67 on:** June 07, 2012, 04:20:52 PM »

Quote from: brandEn on June 07, 2012, 03:49:21 PM

I would leave it. Matching swingarm looks good. Different color swingarm, cant say I have seen a CB like that.

Johnny5 did it.

I don't understand the use of soft hammers to cut painters tape, but whatever.

SOHC4 Cafe Racer Fan · « **Reply #68 on:** June 07, 2012, 05:00:39 PM »

Great looking fork lowers. You are going to two-tone the grooves blue!!? Wow. That will look great.

Harsh · « **Reply #69 on:** June 07, 2012, 05:12:21 PM »

yep...just to give that extra added pop.

sniper1 · « **Reply #70 on:** June 07, 2012, 06:16:12 PM »

Build is looking good....I'm jealous. Hey, thanks for the hook up at Fusion PC, Tom is great. I should be picking up my frame tomorrow, can't wait to get on with the rebuild. Once their built, we'll have to go ride.

Harsh · « **Reply #71 on:** June 07, 2012, 08:41:02 PM »

I thought that might have been your frame there. A ride is definatley in the cards, but I am probably a little less than a year out from being complete. However, I do have the Triumph D675 that is always ready!

Harsh · « **Reply #72 on:** June 08, 2012, 02:55:03 PM »

I thought it was going to be a huge PITA re-taping, but as it turns out it wasn't difficult at all. The tape you use for PC work has a little stretch to it. I have some very thin stuff that was just slightly wider than the outside grooves I wanted to tape over. With a little stretching it formed perfectly.

Messenger750 · « **Reply #73 on:** June 12, 2012, 10:07:57 AM »

An easier method to paint those groves would have been to paint the entire fork tube the color that you want. Then cover up the things you don't want paint on and then paint it the silver. Basically the reverse of what you did. Oh well, this works too.

grachman · « **Reply #74 on:** June 12, 2012, 01:29:32 PM »

Love that blue! Matching the swingarm with the silver fork lowers would look great, in my opinion.

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Author Topic: 74 CB750 Navy Style (Read 80466 times)

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