Engine Paint?

[JamesL]

Post the Welsh Weekend my next upgrade is to touch up the engine paint where the OE coating has spalled off mainly around the headers, but also the fins / water trap inboard from the rocker covers. In the past I've used POR-15 high temperature silver. It's a reasonable match and has performed OK except it has a tendency to go yellow after a while. So, just wondering if there's an 'official' paint one can use? If not I'll carry on with POR. Ta! J

[dave the german]

Hammerite smooth rite silver is a pretty good match or look up RS Motorcycle paints

[JamesL]

OK, ta, I'll have a look. I blow hot and cold on RS paints. The colours are a good match but are water based so you need to apply the lacquer to fix them. Trouble is, the pots of lacquer go off in a few months so if I find myself having to order more in each time... Anyway. I'll check out Hammerite and see what's what. J

[KTM AL]

Did you use silver Hammerite on your engine? If so how did it go?
I have used it on fork legs ect, but not on an engine.
An 1100S project coming up and it will need a bit of tidying around the engine. Cheers

[dave the german]

Search for posts by RSBowling. He painted the engine with Smoohrite and made a really good job of it

[dave the german]

Search RSBowling there’s more than one post but if you look up “winter project “ you’ll see the results of his paint job

[KTM AL]

Search RSBowling there’s more than one post but if you look up “winter project “ you’ll see the results of his paint job

Cheers