I put a stage one a/c on my limited about a year ago and I'm tired of seeing the aluminum sticking out from behind the cover against the black cases. I was thinking of spraying the a/c with the VHT wrinkle black but it says it's only good up to 350* intermittent temps. I ran the bike today and the areas that bolt to the heads only got up to about 110* but that was just from idling in the garage, how hot will those spots get on a hot day during a long ride? If they get anywhere close to 350* I will use the 1300*-2000* VHT flat black, I just think it would look better with a little texture on it. Has anyone used the wrinkle black and baked it in the oven like it says to? It says that the texture will get tighter which would be good, I don't want it extremely textured, but the coating on the cases aren't perfectly smooth so I would like to try and match that best as possible. That's in advance

I posted this on the touring side, being that it's for my bagger but I figured I'd throw it out here as well since I bullshit with the fellas here a lot more. For the sake of this being the dyna forum, I need to do the one on my dyna also

 

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I did my gloss black covers with the 350-degree version and did the oven curing.

They look good to me.

Since doing it, I've gone on an 80-mile, about 3-4 hour ride (part of which was on a muddy, rutted stretch of road in 1st gear at about 10 MPH for around 20 minutes), and there's no negative effect from the heat so far.

Granted, it was in the lower-60s and it's just the covers with nothing actually touching the block, but it's a benchmark.

 

I sprayed my horn and air cleaner cover a year and a half ago and haven't had any problems, I did wasn't the wrinkle black look so I used the stuff that "wrinkles"
Ive ridden it on quite a few hot days. I use "WRT high temp" 350 degree rating.

 

I scratched mine up and was going to do the same thing, but now I'm thinking gloss black. But I am concerned about the temp also

 

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If you get temps at 350 degrees, you'll be stress relieving the aluminum and you'll have far worse problems than blistered paint. There's no way it's getting that hot.

 

I baked them in the oven as instructed. I didn't like the results so I put a second coat on and baked them again. I did get a run on one piece that I thought would flow out when I heated it but it didn't. Other than the run I like how they turned out.