f2cafe racer

[yozzer74]

Was just going to put cam cover back o  engine and noticed this .does anyone no if this should sit flush or should there be a gap [ Guests cannot view attachments ] [ Guests cannot view attachments ]

[Bryanj]

There is normaly a small amount of end float

[yozzer74]

Good so it should be ok then

[yozzer74]

Made a engine stand so I could paint engine [ Guests cannot view attachments ] [ Guests cannot view attachments ] [ Guests cannot view attachments ]

[yozzer74]

Engine painted need to find a finned points cover [ Guests cannot view attachments ] [ Guests cannot view attachments ] [ Guests cannot view attachments ] [ Guests cannot view attachments ]

[onethumb]

That looks proper nice. I was going to do mine in Matt but seeing yours I'm having second thoughts.

What paint did you use.

Thanks. Steve.

[yozzer74]

It's this got it off eBay [ Guests cannot view attachments ]

[royhall]

That's the same paint I used on my 750F2 rebuild.

Went on well with a nice finish, I even baked it in the oven as per instructions.

The only problem I have found since is that every time I go out for a run with the engine fully hot it pings a bit more paint off the end of the fins. So far I have been re-blacking the missing bits with a permanent marker pen. I know its there but otherwise very hard to detect.

I don't think it was anything I did wrong as the head and barrels were bead blasted then degreased first, and I followed the instructions to the letter. Its not happened so far on the 350F with the silver aluminium finish paint, or the matt black I used on another bike. Just the gloss black.

Hope it doesn't happen for you. Sorry to sound negative, but its something to watch for.

Bikes looking superb by the way.

[yozzer74]

Thanks for letting me no stranger how Matt doesn't chip off .

[Pops400]

Taken me a while to get through this thread, but have to say hat's off to you. Great quality work.

[yozzer74]

Cheers mate

[JustcallmeMrT]

I used the same paint in aluminium silver for my engine, and baked as per instructions.  It looks the part, but the first real run of the engine will be tomorrow so the toughness of the paint still needs to be determined on mine.

[yozzer74]

Well I was hoping to get engine back in frame this week but I've had problems with the paint on engine .I wasn't 100% happy with it first time .it keeps reacting I've done it 4 times now .still not perfect but I'm going to go with it .got to say it's tested my patience .better news I got a finned points cover of a forum member on sohc4 all the way from Australia it was a bit rough but I had it vapour blasted .then I polished it up came out ok .I also decided to get the stator cover and sprocket cover powder coated .because the paint kept reacting on them .so hopefully next week I can get engine back in .

[yozzer74]

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[yozzer74]

[ Guests cannot view attachments ] [ Guests cannot view attachments ] Couple of pics of engine one of them is were it's reacted the other one looks a good finish