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Bikes, Hints'n'Tips => Fazer 1000/FZ1 corner => Topic started by: teecee90 on 04 February 2017, 09:16:55 pm

Title: Painting exhaust collector box
Post by: teecee90 on 04 February 2017, 09:16:55 pm

Has anyone tried painting the cast exhaust collector box? It's the only thing in my opinion that lets the bike appearance down. They always seem to rust and look nasty. If anyone has tried painting, did it turn okay and does the paint stay on for long? If so, what paint did you use?


Cheers

Title: Re: Painting exhaust collector box
Post by: bludclot on 05 February 2017, 12:22:38 pm

I've had my Gen 1 for around 6 years now and painted the collector with Simoniz engine aluminium silver aerosol to match the engine when it first arrived.  The Fazer is a dry weather only bike (I have a wet weather bike) and it lasted around 3 years or so before looking a but shabby, at which point I blew over the worst. I didn't go nuts, just a wire brush then coarse sand, primer and silver. It takes far longer to remove and mask than paint.


Here it is pictured very recently:


http://portchesterpropertymaintenance.co.uk/images/cb400/others/fzs1.jpg (http://portchesterpropertymaintenance.co.uk/images/cb400/others/fzs1.jpg)


http://portchesterpropertymaintenance.co.uk/images/cb400/others/fzs2.jpg (http://portchesterpropertymaintenance.co.uk/images/cb400/others/fzs2.jpg)

Title: Re: Painting exhaust collector box
Post by: Kenyun on 10 February 2017, 09:04:22 pm

After years of looking shabby, I removed my FZS1000 exhaust collector and used my home made blast-cabinet to remove all the rust and old paint. I then gave it a few coats of high temperature matt black spray paint.That was about 7 years ago, I have used it through 5 winters since and it still looks OK. The bike has done 149000 miles :)

Title: Re: Painting exhaust collector box
Post by: unfazed on 10 February 2017, 10:10:59 pm

Mines a rare OEM stainless, :)