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Offline 736cc

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Re: Show me your engine pics
« Reply #25 on: August 05, 2011, 07:33:16 AM »
a little artistic liscense w/ motors...




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Re: Show me your engine pics
« Reply #26 on: August 05, 2011, 08:50:52 AM »
now I just need the bike to work!

Not only does that blacked out engine look awesome but i see you use the same thing for a work bench as i do. (That is an old outside table isn't it?)
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Re: Show me your engine pics
« Reply #27 on: August 05, 2011, 10:10:40 AM »
now I just need the bike to work!

Not only does that blacked out engine look awesome but i see you use the same thing for a work bench as i do. (That is an old outside table isn't it?)

Yep! hehe. never enough room right? I just moved and had to leave behind an 18ft long workbench. But no matter what the size, theres never enough room...
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Re: Show me your engine pics
« Reply #28 on: August 05, 2011, 10:50:09 AM »
now I just need the bike to work!


WOW, that looks great! How did you do the polished fins?

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Re: Show me your engine pics
« Reply #29 on: August 05, 2011, 11:19:46 AM »

WOW, that looks great! How did you do the polished fins?

Thanks! I used vht satin black on the halves and cylinders. Afterwards i used some sandpaper to the fins. at first I used a vibrating sander and it started flaking off paint where it shouldnt have.  Doing it gently by hand seems the way to go. Its such a thin area you dont really have to polish it, I just used maybe 200 grit.  The finned covers I masked each fin and powdercoated.
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Re: Show me your engine pics
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Re: Show me your engine pics
« Reply #31 on: August 05, 2011, 03:07:05 PM »
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Offline the technological J

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« Reply #32 on: August 05, 2011, 09:37:09 PM »

WOW, that looks great! How did you do the polished fins?

Thanks! I used vht satin black on the halves and cylinders. Afterwards i used some sandpaper to the fins. at first I used a vibrating sander and it started flaking off paint where it shouldnt have.  Doing it gently by hand seems the way to go. Its such a thin area you dont really have to polish it, I just used maybe 200 grit.  The finned covers I masked each fin and powdercoated.
i wiped mine when wet then used 400 then 800 grit on mine...
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Re: Show me your engine pics
« Reply #33 on: August 06, 2011, 02:54:09 AM »
rat engine,this ended up really nice.

                after this happened to it

the durability and finish of any paint will depend on your prep of course.
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Re: Show me your engine pics
« Reply #34 on: October 23, 2011, 12:29:15 PM »
 Bringing this one back from the dead. Still looking for inspiration, especially paint detail. I generally lean toward polished side covers but I'm itching to do something different this time.
 Here are some pics I nabbed off the web; one from this board and a couple from the Joker Machine site. If my 550 had a valve cover I could polish like the 750 does, it would be an easy choice. Just having a hard time visualizing the 550 head/valve cover on a fully painted engine, though.


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Re: Show me your engine pics
« Reply #35 on: October 23, 2011, 12:32:37 PM »
 And a couple of pics of some XS650 engines I've done. I like the black/polished, but again...having a hard time imagining that scheme on a 550.



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Re: Show me your engine pics
« Reply #36 on: October 23, 2011, 06:59:43 PM »
See AVATAR to the Left. I am starting to like the black shinny edge look tho...over the one color stock look.
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Re: Show me your engine pics
« Reply #37 on: October 24, 2011, 01:46:45 AM »
F2 engine in engine stand. Just about ready to start.
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Re: Show me your engine pics
« Reply #38 on: October 24, 2011, 02:06:20 AM »
Here is mine..waiting  ::)


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Re: Show me your engine pics
« Reply #39 on: October 24, 2011, 04:01:07 PM »
  F3 and GL1500 SOHC
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Re: Show me your engine pics
« Reply #40 on: October 24, 2011, 05:49:02 PM »
F3 and GL1500 SOHC

"OFF THE CHAIN" !!!!
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Re: Show me your engine pics
« Reply #41 on: October 24, 2011, 05:53:02 PM »


What?  Not pretty enough?

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Re: Show me your engine pics
« Reply #42 on: October 24, 2011, 06:13:52 PM »
To much engine porn..I need a sock..
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Re: Show me your engine pics
« Reply #43 on: October 24, 2011, 06:57:07 PM »
markb's sandcast is truly XXX.......get 2 socks
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Re: Show me your engine pics
« Reply #44 on: October 25, 2011, 12:13:15 AM »
'74 CB550- close to stock

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Re: Show me your engine pics
« Reply #45 on: October 27, 2011, 05:52:28 AM »
Kind of "stock"
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Re: Show me your engine pics
« Reply #46 on: October 27, 2011, 06:02:13 AM »
Nitros AND pods, how does it even run like that?  ;)
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Re: Show me your engine pics
« Reply #47 on: October 27, 2011, 08:45:30 AM »
nothing fancy
its better to regret something you have done,than something you havent.Except playing with explosives.

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Re: Show me your engine pics
« Reply #48 on: October 27, 2011, 09:05:01 AM »
Stock with add-ons

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Re: Show me your engine pics
« Reply #49 on: October 27, 2011, 11:08:39 AM »
Bead blasted.

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