Is it necessary to paint motor?

would love to paint my engine black (matt), but lack the patience to spends 10's of hours sanding it, prepping it, degreasing, priming and then making a great mess of the paintjob and have it looking worse than it is.



only had the engine back in the bike a couple of days after it's rebuild, it's got a nice coating of grease on it at the moment holding the dreaded white fur at bay, but might have to give it a spray with the fancy acf-50 once I find out where they sell the stuff.

Doward said:

LOL



I degreased and pressure washed my engine, hit it with a self-etching primer, and shot it down with the VHT Titanium Metallic Silver. Looks good enough for me

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if it's that easy then I'll give it a go! - was the engine completely stripped or in one chunk at the time ?

where did the delete post button go ?

delete! delete!