Buffed Engine & Cases, Before & After Images...OMR

Here you go... No more to say...

OMR

showoff!

Bite me...hahahahaha...

Beautifull,she's gonna be a looker thats for sure.
Would you like to come and polish my cases seeing as how your very good at it?
Oh...I see youve already answered that one:silly:

see bottom image on left??? hahahaha...

It's been a long 3 months waiting for parts and other BS issues with vendors so I'm now rejuvenated with motivation to get back at her...

Glad you guys like,

OMR

That turned out real nice.

Hey OMR,

What did you use to get such great results? How 'bout a little step-by-step write up on this. Great job!

Nice job on the engine "bling" OMR. I love to see nicely polished engine covers on these old Kawis.

Glad you guys like the results...

As for a right up, it was rather easier than you think but here's the jest of it...

Engine Block:
No chemical in the world was going to get that 30 year old crud off, henceforth, out comes the wire wheel "soft bristle" with a little hard bristle at times. Hard tends to scratch the aluminum to deep so stay with the soft as much as possible. Took about 4 hours to complete for a dull finish.

Engine block and Covers:
Then with a Tripoli "medium cut" polish, start buffing (drill attached 6" buff wheel) for a dull shine. Then finish off with white compound for the bling.

The block itself is shiny new but nothing compared to the covers regarding mirror quality. It would take a large amount of work to get the block smoothed out enough for mirror effects.

Then you'd have to polish the damn thing every other week or so to keep it that way, no thanks, too much work with no time left to ride... :blink:

Total time 1-2 days pending the condition of your covers for the bling results. From previous write up, I had some severe scratches in the covers that I had to braze, file, sand and buff. This time around was just bling buff...


You no what was the real bitch was getting off the original cylinder studs... Holly crap, there were times I thought they were going to snap/shear off or worst case bust the block... I was a praying to the KZ gods... I was forced to pipe wrench them off...

With the new APE heavy duty studs, no blown head gaskets for me...

OMR

Old Man Rock wrote:

You no what was the real bitch was getting off the original cylinder studs... Holly crap, there were times I thought they were going to snap/shear off or worst case bust the block... I was a praying to the KZ gods... I was forced to pipe wrench them off...

With the new APE heavy duty studs, no blown head gaskets for me... OMR

Mine came out the same way also. Every one of them the same. Hard! From start to finish. I had to use 2 pairs of vise grips. One wouldn't grip enough. I would have used a pipe wrench but couldn't find one.

that's pretty good. I know how much time you must've spent as I spent a good deal of time on mine as well. Butttttttt... I got lazy and paid a guy to do my valve cover for me and made all the work I did that I thought was pretty good all for naught. As I can tell you the shine from aluminum looks far shinier and better than chrome any day of the week. Everyone thought I chromed out the top and didn't believe me. But yeah man. That is what every kaw man should do to his bike. Nothing like making it look better than it did when new.

That is absolutely amazing. I have a set of cases like your "befores" that I thought wouldn't be worth much. Now I realize they are worth a bunch to a guy with a large amount of buffing compound.

Jay