| Author | Message | ||
     Buellish |
I am about to cut down my cam cover and am wondering if I should leave the round support at the trailing edge of the cover? It doesn't appear to serve any purpose other than supporting the cover where there is no webbing. What do you guys think.Any pictures of cut down covers? | ||
| 1313 |
I am about to cut down my cam cover and am wondering if I should leave the round support at the trailing edge of the cover? I was informed to leave that intact when I did my S2 many moons ago. Others will likely have differing opinions based on the number I have seen without this feature in place, 1313 | ||
| Buellish |
Brankin,why leave it?Were you told the reason? | ||
| Phelan |
My understanding is that it holds a dowel pin in place or something like that; I can't remember. I do remember that it causes headaches if you cut it off though. | ||
| Firstbuell |
JT&S said to leave mine on.... | ||
| Akbuell |
Yeah, I believe it has to do with keeping the cam cover stable on the crankcase half. On a race bike, where every oz is important, the situation is tolerated, esp as the engine is torn down and 'refreshed' on a frequent schedule. On a street machine, longevity being a goal, probably want to leave that in place. The cam cover is supporting one end of each cam, lots of pressures there. If the cover is only supported by the screws, it may be liable to 'walk' around on the gasket, and cause premature cam and cam bushing wear, and gasket failure. | ||
| Buellish |
I believe ya'll have convinced me to leave it on.I just realized that the spare cover I was going to use has been beveled at the bottom of the ignition cover opening,as if the bike was dropped.Anyone need a cheap cam cover? | ||
| Buellish |
What finishes do you think hold up best?I have been thinking wrinkle black powder coat for the cam and primary covers,and matte black on the clutch and inspection covers. I have seen black finishes that looked dirty.What do you guys use to keep your black finishes looking good? | ||
| Jolly |
The finish on my primary and cam cover was pretty rough so I had to do something, decided I would try a black powdercoat to break up the lines of the motor a bit. I did texture black (newer HD motor finish) on primary cover and black magic (semi sheen ) on the derby cover for my S2. I think it looks great! It ties in nicely with the black heads. (My s2 has a thunderstorm motor). I painted the cam cover with HD texture black paint since I had "heard" that during baking the powdercoat the cam bushings can fall out.... Wish I had powdercoated it.... (Message edited by Jolly on September 27, 2014) (Message edited by Jolly on September 27, 2014) | ||
| Jolly |
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| Buellish |
Jolly,that looks great!That's close to what I have been thinking of.I have a Pegasus clutch cover and after powder coating would paint the Pegasus white with a fine line brush to match the white tank emblems. | ||
| Purpony |
I did my cut cam cover and primary Black Magic- love the way it came out. My engine is all black though.  Jolly I like your combo of silver, wrinkle, and semi! | ||
| Buellish |
Marc,"Black Magic" is that a paint color?It looks like it has a little texture.I can only hope that my S3T looks half as good as your X1 when I'm done. | ||
| Purpony |
Black Magic is the name of the powdercoat bought through powderbuythepound. It's smooth... just a crappy picture. Thanks | ||
| Jolly |
Black majic is the same smooth "semi gloss?" Stuff that my derby cover and primary inspection cover are done in. | ||
| Buellish |
Marc,what kind of coating do you have on your head pipe?Do you have a link to more pics of your bike? (Message edited by buellish on September 27, 2014) | ||
| D_adams |
Looks like Cerakote, same stuff I use. HVLP gun, similar to just shooting paint. www.cerakotehightemp.com | ||
| Purpony |
Header pipes are black ceramic coating. First time the guys did it their oven died. They called the manufacturer so see how to recover baking it. They told me if I had problems they would recoat. After the first min of running the bike it started to flake. They redid it no questions asked but im not super happy how it came out.... was going to have it redone again somewhere else or try it myself in my oven. My muffler is high temp powdercoat- holding up great but I would not really recommend it for the header pipes. more pics here -- http://www.buellxb.com/index.php?a=member&m=698 Dean... your using Cerakote on your headers instead of ceramic and its holding up ok? (Message edited by purpony on September 27, 2014) | ||
| D_adams |
 Header on the bike is getting close to 1 year in. They've been taken off and put back on at least 4 times now, so I managed to scratch them just a little, but overall, they're holding up nicely. Cerakote _is_ ceramic. I use the air cured stuff, it's rated to the same temps as the oven cured. I don't have the oven handy, so my color options are limited to what they offer. Most of the jobs I've done thus far have been black, either flat, satin or gloss. My headers are cobalt gray. I've gotten zero complaints back since I started doing them myself last year, I had several high temp powder coat jobs fail on me and I got tired of dealing with pissed off customers for work that I didn't actually do myself. I bought a bead blast cabinet and tried it myself, it's worked out well. | ||
| Purpony |
Great to know. Thanks. I didn't realize that was ceramic. |
