Soda Blasting and Painting your Engine Pt 2


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Rick Pope wrote:Well, I see "geese" has been editted to "grease". That's okay, I had a bit of fun. :D

No painting tractors this winter, but I usually use a pressure washer to remove geese.
Whatever are you talking about? :D

Ya, that was me messing with you with the magic eraser...
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Grammar is not bag, sorry. This is the grease remover I use after blasting, pressure washing or etching to get the oil from your hands off the surface (a little extra insurance).
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Goose fat is particularly difficult to remove too!

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I solved the problem by completely disassembling the motor and polished the whole thing including the head and barrels. way too much time but it looks awesome. Here in Nevada you don't have to worry about corrosion or rust.

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Just hope you never sell it to someone in most of the rest of the country.

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I realize this is an older post, but is just as relevant now as it was eight years ago to those of us who will need to do this eventually. My modified Z has a black painted engine. While I like the look and it fits with the period mods of the bike, I still yearn, at some point, to have that beautiful silver CBX motor.

In the meantime, I will enjoy TO THE MAX the lovely contrast between the black motor and those six chrome pipes!

Belated thanks from a newcomer for this most excellent tutorial. Having how "tilted" the motor for carb and valve lash service, I see that, down the road, it'll be a relatively small leap from tilted to getting it on a stand for application of a soda blast setup.
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Hello SanDogDewey, what about durability of the paint along this years?

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Alessio wrote:
Thu May 18, 2023 3:48 am
Hello SanDogDewey, what about durability of the paint along this years?
I’m not Patrick, but he and I both painted our engines using this process in 2010 and mine still looks excellent. Treat it with the same care you’d show any painted surface, don’t use harsh chemicals or abrasives.
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Thank you Nils!
The effect of that paint is amazing, I hope I'll find it!

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That VHT 995 paint has earned a mixed reputation since then, having turned bronze after a few heat cycles for several folks. I suspect residual soda to be the cause, can’t prove that. I have always power washed to rinse the soda and liberally doused the surface with acetone, and doing that I haven’t had the issue. The Duplicolor GM silver is actually a closer match, and I’ve heard no reports of the bronzing with that.
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