ClimbAnyHill Posted February 25, 2007 Author Report Posted February 25, 2007 i have access to a sand blaster at work.... save a bunch of time stripping it.the first time i tried primer and paint 1200 deg ceramic... it flaked off after a season paint was shot down by cylinders.. this time i went a head and baked paint like instructions say to make finish harder... so far it has worked... heat cycles of break in...... first couple of test rides... spilled gas on from filling tank... (dumbass) rode for approx 1 hr total... 20 min warm up and spin around block.. temp gauge has been up to 150 deg and no paint flake yet!!!!!! hope thats the trick.. or trade in for chrome ones.... That's sounds about right, should work fine! The stripping was very easy. Tools used did the job for me. Quote
RagunCajun Posted March 11, 2007 Report Posted March 11, 2007 the best part about that is it makes it look like you are running stock pipes :woot: Quote
ClimbAnyHill Posted September 10, 2007 Author Report Posted September 10, 2007 the best part about that is it makes it look like you are running stock pipes :woot: Yeah... Makes others look twice when you pass by! So I resprayed the area where I lost the finish, no primer, just sprayed it onto the bare metal. Let it dry to the touch and took the bike for a rip. Brought it back to camp. I resprayed once cooled and took it for another rip. Now it's baked on there pretty good! Socalinit, Sanshots & Uncleribcracker seemed to like em :thumbsup: Quote
badbrad Posted January 9, 2008 Report Posted January 9, 2008 So let me get this right because I plan on doing this: first off, does this site have the right paint I need? http://www.net4sale.com/Shop/pc/viewPrd.as...p;idproduct=122 I wonder waht the black metallic would look like? Ok, so I get a light disc sander and brush and take the pipes to the sheet metal, then primer them let dry, then paint on the color and let dry, then do the idling technique to bake in? is that it? how long does this take about? Quote
zach45 Posted January 10, 2008 Report Posted January 10, 2008 lol i did mines also.. i painted the t-5 in red with regular paint over the black... works fine no flaking.. Quote
FelixTheCat Posted January 11, 2008 Report Posted January 11, 2008 (edited) Yeah... Makes others look twice when you pass by! So I resprayed the area where I lost the finish, no primer, just sprayed it onto the bare metal. Let it dry to the touch and took the bike for a rip. Brought it back to camp. I resprayed once cooled and took it for another rip. Now it's baked on there pretty good! Socalinit, Sanshots & Uncleribcracker seemed to like em :thumbsup: Prep and curing is the key to making the high temp paint stick... Light coats and a little heat cycling is the key...also no primer...If your metal is prepped and cleaned properly you wont need the primer...I've heard that you let the bike idle till you see the paint start to smoke...shut it down and let it cool...then do another heat cycle and another till the paint stops smoking...then depending on how light the coats of paint were you can spray more light coats and heat cycle them again...making sure the paint gets to the point of not smoking... it takes a while to do this... but the results are paint that doesn't flake bubble or peal... Another great paint to use is the High temp BBQ paint... Edited January 11, 2008 by FelixTheCat Quote
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