Just in to progress of cleaning my zx10 engine and plan on painting it this weekend. Can anyone recomend a paint that will last on the engine and wont peel off from the heat?

Engine paint

Available from all good automotive paints suppliers, and probably from halfrauds for twice as much.

David

I dunno whether you are decided but, I would feel inclined not to paint a bike engine.

How about a good degrease and steam clean?

Being all alloy they come up quite well - I took the cam cover off and sandblasted it which made a bit of a difference too.

Geoff

The engine is a 88 zx10 which is allready painted black but the paint is well worn so i just want to bring it up to date a bit.

From an aesthetic point of view I couldn't really care about engine colour.....

but- does the paint colour effect the heat transmitted by the engine into the engine bay??? I would have though black would be a good radiator....

I'd be careful with your Choice,

If it was a Cast Block i'd reccomend Tetrocyl Engine paint it looks Gorgeous!
But it recomends you use a primer for Aliminium (I didn't use any on my gearbox which is Smoothe Ali and it peeels off very easily with spilt oil/fuel etc.)

We've primed some other Ali Componnets with some Paltikote Metal Protekt primer and then painted them but they look nothing like as good as if the two shouldn't be mixed/are incompatible.

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Originally posted by BenB

but- does the paint colour effect the heat transmitted by the engine into the engine bay??? I would have though black would be a good radiator....

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aye the matt look probs dont loook gd underbonnet and all the filth that a normal bike or car would get on it and not cleaned would look rank fast, but guess on a locost ya more likly to clean it. if you find matt black paint sutiable for it them go for it every little bit helps!