1975 CB400F Project "Replacement Girlfriend"

[SONICJK]

I'm thinking of doing my tank in the same aluminum paint that's on the engine......maybe with a nice black stripe somewhere

Thoughts?

 

[crqcycles]

I'm thinking of doing my tank in the same aluminum paint that's on the engine......maybe with a nice black stripe somewhere

Thoughts?

I would go with the original red, blue but mostly YELLOW!

 

[mattfeet]

Please tell me you're not using your kitchen oven to bake that powdercoating...

 

[SONICJK]

Yup.
But I don't cook in it so I couldn't care less.

 

[mattfeet]

Fair enough.

 

[SONICJK]

I only used it for the cases, everything else I did in an old toaster oven in the shop. I doubt it's going to kill me, but check back in 20 years for cancer haha

 

[SONICJK]

Finally made a little more progress, dowel pins come in tomorrow so tomorrow night the engine gets finished!

Got the last pieces of the engine puzzle painted tonight

I LOVE this paint, it goes on a little rough but is self leveling and smoothed out like glass, it's so nice I won't ever use any other engine paint again. No baking either, shoot it and leave it overnight and it's good.
And the container I got will do probably 20 bike engines haha

 

[DesmoBro]

what kind of paint? it looks great

 

[SONICJK]

It's the Eastwood two part urethane engine paint.
It was about 50 bucks for a pint and a can of hardener which was a hard pill to swallow when I bought it but with how little I've used it turns out to be significantly cheaper that rattle cans. It would have taken at least 4 cans and that's 28 bucks right there, and I have at least 10-15 more engines left in my pint haha.

 

[mikewerx]

Are you baking it after spray?

 

[DesmoBro]

he baked the powder coated parts but not that paint he just sprayed it

 

[SONICJK]

Are you baking it after spray?

Nope.
I haven't gotten gas on any I my painted parts yet, but I let some paint dry in a paint cup and then filled the cup with gas. 30 minutes later the gas came out clean and the paint looked fine.

 

[ronnie]

Man, that chain cover looks amazing.. Does it hold that gloss like that after it dries?

 

[SONICJK]

Here it is dry

It holds most of the gloss

Also I'm using my iPhone as a camera so the colors aren't quite right, it's a little lighter and brighter in person

 

[SONICJK]

I'm seriously contemplating doing my tank in this stuff

 

[ronnie]

I'm seriously re-"doing" my engine with this stuff! haha! Makes VHT look like Crayola!

 

[SONICJK]

It says you can use a foam brush, i have no idea if that would work or not, i would say noti nearly as good.
But a cheap paint gun and a compressor is all you need.

 

[SONICJK]

After months if toil this engine is finally assembled for the first time in my hands!

Buying an engine disassembled sucks, especially when you have never so much as changed the oil on a 4 cylinder before. So hopefully I didn't ignore any parts haha.

She's a beauty

Had to go ahead and put it in the frame! I have to say, it is MUCH easier than a cb350 the engine slotted right into place

Of course I had to go ahead and partly assemble everything just to see how it looks

The seat: something about it just bugs me so ill be making my own, so anyone wanna take this one off my hands for a nominal fee?

 

[SONICJK]

An now a question:
I have a hole under the clutch cover that has nothing in it, I don't remember of its supposed to be that way haha
Here's the picture, it's on the top right of this picture

 

[crqcycles]

FUCKING LOVE THAT ENGINE. WORD.