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motor is in...wondering about carb color...

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I got the motor in yesterday and couldn't help putting the tank on to see how it's going to look.

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Emblems and badges will be all OEM when finished including the tank badges. I have a smoothed tank right now. I have decided to go with a metallic black on the tins.

My thought with the carbs all along has been to paint them with the aluminum paint and polish the bowls and caps to a mirror finish. Now I'm wondering how black carb bodies would look with polished bowls and caps. What do you guys think?

I'll also have new intake boots with K&N pods.
 
With the pods, there will already be an apparent hole through the bike. I think black carbs would add to the effect. Unless the K&N pods have a lot of chrome visible, in which case the black would be a nice punctuation between the chrome pods and silver motor.
 
I like GKs approach and I think his thoughts are sound. Polishing those bodies is going to be one heck of a project. I think painting them all black as well wouldn't look right either IMHO.

I always think that silver and or chrome makes things look lighter and black makes it look heavy. The contrast between the engine and bodywork gives it balance right now and I think adding something black to the engine is going to throw it off. Black accents on the grey carb bodies not so much.

Its looking very good my friend. I can't wait to see it completed.

Cheers,
spyug
 
Just to add, since you have painted the engine, then paint the carbs same as, and do the tops in black, for some contrast, leaving your carbs natural would not look good since you painted the engine.

I will probably be able to get away with how it is right now, since my engine will be black, and my tops will tie in with that, the natural look of the carb bodies will just blend in......well I at least hope so....LOL
 
Black tops and black bowls will look the best with your engine/tank colors.
Or Black tops and polish the two outside bowls a little. You can always paint them black later if you don't like it.

Eric
 
GateKeeper said:
..., body and bowl left natural ..., and too much work to polish the bowls, ...
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All the time and effort you have gone through to get to this point and another 15-20 minutes to polish the bowls is "too much"? :rolleyes:

It takes less than five minutes to get the bowls to this state:
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Since I had painted the engine black on my wife's bike, I went with painted carbs with polished tops and bottoms.
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So many good options fellas thanks for your input. Still open to ideas. I just didn't want all of the silver to run together.

Now that I think about it, the black intake boots and the black/dark pods will break it up nicely if I polish the caps and bowls and paint the bodies with the same paint I used on the motor. Thinking it would look like a big black line with the boots and pods and bodies all in black.

Steve that's the look i will be going for on the bowls.
 
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Steve said:
All the time and effort you have gone through to get to this point and another 15-20 minutes to polish the bowls is "too much"? :rolleyes:

It takes less than five minutes to get the bowls to this state:
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Well let's say it's not the time to do it, I just don't think having polished bowls, black tops, and a natural carb body would look all that good.

Perhaps if my tops were not plastic and could have been polished with the bowls as well, and the bodies painted black, I probably would have taken that route.
 
Righto GK. I'm thinking polished tops, painted body (duplicator aluminum), polished bowls. If my tops were plastic I would be painting them black and go the same route you did. Yours are going to look great on your bike no doubt.

Steve's got the chrome on the air box that breaks things up nicely and the motor is blacked out. The carbs match the motor. Shiny tops and bottoms and black in the middle. It's works on Angel.
 
GateKeeper said:
painted tops and rails, body and bowl left natural

my tops are plastic so I can't polish, did not want to paint the bodies, and too much work to polish the bowls, and it wouldn't look good only half polished, so on advice given, I only painted the tops

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I'm with you GateKeeper, my tops are aluminum so they are lightly polished along with the bowls, bodies were soda blasted when I did the carbs, nothing else. I think it looks clean and means business.

Cheers
 
MRpurty FlyBoy.
OSMR

Hey Steve, do you think the rails will polish up? hhmmm......
 
Steve said:
All the time and effort you have gone through to get to this point and another 15-20 minutes to polish the bowls is "too much"? :rolleyes:

It takes less than five minutes to get the bowls to this state:
IMG_7323.jpg


Since I had painted the engine black on my wife's bike, I went with painted carbs with polished tops and bottoms.
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wow THAT is georgouse, so so sweet cant describe how beautiful that one is in my eyes!!
 
Good Times said:
MRpurty FlyBoy.
OSMR

Hey Steve, do you think the rails will polish up? hhmmm......
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I don't think so on the rails, they are of some sort of metal and will not shine up, you can try but I don't think so, best is to then paint them same as your carb /engine, or off set with some black maybe..

:)
 
GateKeeper said:
I don't think so on the rails, they are of some sort of metal and will not shine up, you can try but I don't think so, best is to then paint them same as your carb /engine, or off set with some black maybe..

:)
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If they don't polish up then they will be black. Some of my washers had that same gold film that the rails do. They polished up nicely. I'll see what it looks like though.
 
Good Times said:
If they don't polish up then they will be black. Some of my washers had that same gold film that the rails do. They polished up nicely. I'll see what it looks like though.
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if you take the gold film off and it don't polish it will rust......I believe

that is what the gold film is for to protect the metal from rusting or oxidizing...

I took the film off of mine, I did not try to polish it, I just painted it black
 
GateKeeper said:
if you take the gold film off and it don't polish it will rust......I believe

that is what the gold film is for to protect the metal from rusting or oxidizing...

I took the film off of mine, I did not try to polish it, I just painted it black
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Yep...good thought.

Polish and clear coat?

That's what I did to my washers and bolts.
 
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