Engine paint

[Russbusa]

I know i'm probably digging up an old thread

Were the gs engines painted silver from new or bare aluminium ?

The 2 I have here look to have been painted very badly and dont appear to have a good factory finish under the crap thats on top. I was going to get the whole engine vapour blasted but dont see the point if it should be painted again as a normal bead blast is half the price.

£140 for crank cases, barrels, head and cam cover. cleaned, stripped and vapourblast, does this sound abpout right ???

[Cold Snail]

Talk to JohnR about acid dipping.

[sparki]

dipped is preferable imho..... COMPLETELY clean when you get em back with zero blast material left behind (obviously)

speak with johnr nicely as he has a place en route to work that'll do a stirling job

[lomsavage]

Is that swimming when your high then

that's a mis spent youth mate

or not as the case may be

[bobster]

I think only the top crank cases , cylinder and head were painted silver Russ.

Vapour blasting doesnt leave any possible detritis in any of the oilways like bead blasting could!

I used good old elbow grease on my crank cases when i did mine!

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Did anyone ever tell you NOT USE PJ1 SILVER.......it goes YELLOW...

[sparki]

vapour blasting still uses solid media in addition to water

[bobster]

" Get the F*ck outta here"

Does it?

well I never...........you learn something new everyday!

[JACKJABBA]

Thats a clean looking engine Bobster. So which paint is best to use, other than PJ1, as I will be doing this in the next month.

Regards Jack

[bobster]

I used CARPLAN VHT.....but it needs curing first ,and can get washed off with petrol and solvents, if youre not careful.

Doesnt go yellow though!

[Cold Snail]

Bob.
You could have sprayed that towbar while you were at it, look at the state of it.