Comments on: MD Project: CB350 Cafe Racer, Part III (Bike Reports) (News)

By: mocktar400

mocktar400 — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 13:25:30 +0000

White colored exhaust might look good with your white stripe

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By: tla

tla — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 02:06:47 +0000

if you’re really broke, you can vht hi temp clear coat before spraying vht black paint. it’ll last longer that way.

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By: Bud

Bud — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:25:12 +0000

I can vouch for Jet Hot. I’ve had Jet Hot coated headers on my Camaro for several years now. Much lower temps under the hood now. And it’s held up well. But it doesn’t look like chrome, its more a flat silver finish. I think on a bike I might see if they had a black coating, might look better.

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By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:15:03 +0000

Jet Hot Coating has a bunch of grades/colors (http://jet-hot.com/coating.html) & tends to drastically reduce surface temps of the pipes. On faired bikes, it makes a huge difference – on the vintage bikes, it looks badass & lasts forever! I manage a small cycle shop not far from Jet Hot’s corporate offices (and live even closer) – I have seen the results first hand & have been impressed. Some of the paper published magazines have reviewed their services too. Well worth the investment on the last CB750 we had coated. Hi-temp paint (even the 1200 degree VHT stuff) comes off in a couple of months…

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By: Gabe

Gabe — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:57:40 +0000

Thanks for that info…I decided to go with boring black hi-temp powder coat. The budget is starting to bend!

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By: gsbeliever

gsbeliever — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:50:08 +0000

Yamaha makes a great tank cleaner and neutralizer (2 part system). Just be aware that if your tank is really groddy, it could take up to four days of soaking (directions say 4 hours?!). I kept a 5 gallon bucket handy and dump the solution into that when I wanted to check the progress. Need more time? Just dump the solution back into the tank. As for a tank sealer, the POR-15 is excellent, goes on like liquid metal and hardens like steel (they even include some fiberglass cloth to seal minor leaks). Just don’t buy the POR-15 kit, the cleaner sucks for anything but the lightest crud, definitely go w/ the Yamaha cleaner.

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By: Billygoat

Billygoat — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:04:20 +0000

Call Tracy at Turnbull. She said the bluing does offer some protection and she is looking for an appropriate motorcycle project…Turnbull Mfg. Co. Phone: 585-657-6338. The only problem MAY be the high heat used for the process, but since this is motocycle exhaust, it’s designed for high heat.

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By: Billygoat

Billygoat — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:55:05 +0000

No. The do the same for guns and they don’t rust. But we don’t swim with them. Do you really plan to run your baby in the rain? If you dunked it, it might rust.

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By: mocktar400

mocktar400 — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:54:37 +0000

Gabe, your bike project looks great. Jethot coating is a brand name of a powder coating and there is another company in Fresno CA. Caps powder coating, that make a similar coating called Brite Hot coating in silver that can be polished to look similar to chrome. Used on race car exhausts and show cars and show bikes. They also offer a Porcelain coating that looks like glass coating and was used on old cars to keep them from rusting, Thinking black porcelain would look great with your color scheme. Check em out at http://www.capscoatings.com/ Best of luck on your project cafe racer.

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By: Conan

Conan — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:08:46 +0000

Man, this is making me regret my current plan to fix and sell the GL500 in the garage…it could make a cool little cafe racer.

Looking forward to the updates!

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