Hey ya'll.

I just bought my 2010 FLHX, and quickly finding out there are ALOT of these out there in Vivid Black.

It stand to reason anytime you personalize or customize something, you want it to be unique, but you also have the boilerplate list of things you do to a bike. Pipes, Intake, racks and wheels, etc.


What I am planning to do is pull off a few engine parts and exhaust tips, valve covers, and most of the primary, transmission and engine case bolts, and have them all match powder coated.

My concern is that I don't know the durability of P/C and if some parts of the engine might now heat up too much to damage the powder coating.

Does anyone have any experience with P/C'ing things like Heads, Trans Covers, Timing Covers, or Exhaust tips ?

Thanks

 

For those real hot parts like exhaust use ceramic coating. I had my heat shields ceramic coated and they can match colors. I had the forks and calipers pc'd and it holds up very well. PC is very durable, HD frames and cases and vivid black sheetmetal is pc'd very strong, ask a chromer when he has to strip it off to prep for chrome.

 

My take is go to these guys http://www.performancecoatings.com/index2.html that will back up there work… Look at my pics and you’ll see some stuff I powder coated by someone else. If you have parts that are going to get really hot, it needs to be done by some serious people that specialize in items that will be in extreme heat. My powder coat work looked real good but the pipes did not hold up very well because I went to a basic powder coater that deals with frames, gates, and out door stuff…. So go ahead and check these guys out.. http://www.performancecoatings.com/index2.html

Good luck

 

pipes are the only thing that needs ceramic, the rest of the engine covers etc will be fine with regular powdercoat

 

Keep in mind that if you do PC any bolts... the powder is thick enough that it will change the size of that bolt, allen head, torx head, etc... I found that out the hard way. Like Leo said I think everything except the exhaust will be fine, a friend of mine has his rocker boxes, primary, etc powdered and he hasnt had a problem at all, its been on there for 3 years. Good luck!

 

thanks ya'll...

I have a lot of tuning to do before I pull the parts for coating, but wanted to check and see the consensus. Never had experience with it before.

 

hey bud your stuff did not look good cause it was not prepped right. The standard powder we use will take 600 degrees, and holds up perfectly fine on all heat shields, slip on mufflers, and tips. The ONLY thing on a bike that gets hot enough to warrant either ceramic or high temp powder(good to 1200 deg F) are the header/pipes themselves.
if you stuff is getting hotter than that it comes into issues wiht the tune of your bike and belive me the powder is the last worry if your ride is that hot

 

Sublime... if you look at my scoot... every part has been coated... no joke... i have 0 high temp powder on my scoot, no need for it. everything looks like the day we pulled it out of the oven.. if you hae any questions at all please let me now i would be more than happy to help you out!

 

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