any body try and match the silver paint on the engine block?

[AMCQ46]

as per the long title. there is some bubbled corrosion lifting the paint on the spare engine I have bought, and before I fit it I wanted to do a quick touch up. Any body found a good colour match that works on aluminium and the heat of the heat of the engine?

[benny hedges]

i dont think you will get better than this stuff mate http://www.firwood.co.uk/wcsstore/Firwo ... /mkt75.pdf
unlike the crap they sell in halfords, this stuff does not fade or flake.
i used it on my headers (now using the black)

you can get it either in rattlers or in a tin for brush application, though it can be thinned and sprayed.
if you thin it proper and use a good brush you wont get brushstrokes.
theses heaps of pigment in it unlike the piss thin sperex and other cheap crap

[AMCQ46]

looks interesting in the aluminium colour. where do you buy it?

[benny hedges]

click buy on that link mate.. i just call in meself as it's only in bolton, like 15 mile away.
they might sell it on ebay, not sure

here sorry.... http://www.firwood.co.uk/webapp/wcs/sto ... y_rn=12285

[AMCQ46]

link went straight to the pdf, but now had a look at the website. the hight temp one you use is only for steel, the one for Aluminium is only in black.

the below 250C paints look an option at it is aluminium colour but is £30 for a 5l tin, and I only want to touch up a couple of spots

[AMCQ46]

OK I can now adviose that the following are not even close as a colour match!

1) Hammerite Smooth - Silver
2) Halfords high temp engine spraypaint - aluminium satin

the Honda colour is much darker

Any body found a good colour match?

[Miztaziggy]

You could take a sample and have someone make up a matching paint?

I dont know if they do that for high temp paints, but they might do and would be worth a try? There is a place near me that mixes and matches paints while you wait. I could always call in and ask him if he does stuff that would work on the engine?

[oldbikeman]

Spectra Engine Enamel is as good as any factory finish.Used it for years.

[snipper]

there is a nack to spraying silver ....... thin coats

if you put too much on in a coat the silver goes darker

[AMCQ46]

Darker would be good!

I am not trying to do a full respray, only to match the existing paint to touch up the areas where corrosion has bubbled the surface.

looks like it is more pewter coloured than silver, but still not found a colour match, let alone one which is oil & heat proof!

[Kev L]

Darker would be good!

I am not trying to do a full respray, only to match the existing paint to touch up the areas where corrosion has bubbled the surface.

looks like it is more pewter coloured than silver, but still not found a colour match, let alone one which is oil & heat proof!

Do you have a spare engine part in the colour you want? I live fairly near RS paints, Welham Green. They have matched paint for me before and produced rattle cans etc. I will willingly take said item to them for you if it's an option. Let me know.

[AMCQ46]

Kev, thanks for the offer, dont have any small bits I can take off, its the dark silver colour that the heads and the block are painted with [only those parts, so not planning to take them off just yet ] ...........looks like aluminium, but it is a protective paint finish.
should be the same on your engine, so if you could show them your block it might be close enough.

Thanks
AMcQ

[Kev L]

Sorry mate mines the gold/magnesium colour engine so I can't use that as a pattern.

[AMCQ46]

Ah, that wont work then will it

thanks for the offer. I will try and find a paint match at the other local bike shops

[alec]

if you take a look at rs motorbike paint online most modernish honda engines were painted in grey metallic mate might be why silvers not dark enough, they supply it too. try here http://www.rsbikepaint.com/en/
alec