1) Side Covers. As I've said, I'm painting the primary cover wrinkle black. I'm actually leaving the clutch cover and the inspection hole cover chrome. I'm trying to balance the chrome and black on the bike, since I don't want it all black, and there are things I don't want to bother with painting black, like the complicated 3 piece head covers. The issue here is painting over chrome. It has to have the bejeebies sanded out of it, then self etch primered, regular primered, then I need to find some actual wrinkle black paint, which I know Rustoleum makes, but Home Depot doesn't carry. The other side of this part of the project, is painting the other side. You can't just take off the cam cover like the primary cover, because it holds the cams. At least part of it will be under pressure, so pulling the cover off would mean they would fall apart to some degree. So my brilliant plan is to pull all but a few of the bottom bolts off so it doesn't fall off accidentally), tape off at the gasket, tape off the ignition cover, and then tape/newspaper off everything else. Like surgeons do. Then just do it on the bike. Like I said, brilliant plan. We'll see how it works. How hard can it be?
2) Various parts will be painted just plain gloss black with gloss clear. This will match the frame. Almost all of these involve painting over chrome, which may be difficult. These parts will be:
- the new mirrors, hoping I don't screw it up... I may leave them chrome as part of the balance thing, as the grips already have chrome pieces.
- the horn cover. Was going to do this wrinkle black, but meh
- the back of the headlight bucket will be black, and the little frenched headlight trim ring I bough will stay chrome, which I think will be lovely.
- the fork sliders. These are the bottom parts of the fork
- possibly the triple trees, depending on how difficult it looks
- definitely the upper triple tree cover piece and the big chrome piece that sits on the front of the handlebar riser. Will do the back piece as well. Thinking about doing the risers, riser cover, and speedo housing as well, but this may put it out of balance, and it may be a lot more difficult.
- the rear springs and the top parts of the Shock mounts. Backroads supposedly replaced the shocks, and I don't know if I trust it, because I can already tell they used these little covers over the top part that don't belong on this year bike, so it actually looks crooked. Will go into that more when I try to take them off.
I;ve already bought the paint supplies for this part, and plan to do it soon.
3) The wheels. I saw a youtube video, and at least one other place where the rims of the wheel were painted copper metallic, and it looks pretty cool, so I plan to do this. So I found a guy selling a set of stock 16" rear & 19" front laced wheels & bought em, $140, pretty good deal. They're not in the greatest shape, but I'm getting used to the idea of cleaning & sanding. But I'll do the rim & hubs copper, the spokes will be black, and the nipples (actual techincal term, where the spokes meet the rim), will stay chrome.
4) The tank & fenders. I really like Harleys Denim paint they've been doing lately. So I searched all over figuring exactly what this is. Apparently, its just a mostly flat clear on top of regular looking paint, they just make it sound cool. Commonly known as "hot rod black" or hot rod whatever. I've seen some people just use flat black with no clear, but this doesn't keep well apparently. So the plan is, rustoleum enamel gloss black. Then I'll do a border of a classic kinda ivory off white around the side of the tank, which will be orange. This scheme will go to the fenders as stripes. Now, this will be a lot of work, since it will be 3 different colors, and I'll have to wait a day between doing each so parts can be taped off. But basically, I will sand down through the pinstripes & gloss of the stock paint, no need for primer from everything I've read, since the stock paint should be good enough (except the rear fender, which will be bare metal if I ever get it), then lay down the white in the areas I need it, wait a day, tape up the white stripe and the orange areas, lay down the black, wait a day, tape up the black areas, then lay down the orange.
After that, I have to deal with the logo, because I'm not leaving it blank. I think that's uncool when I see it, and it screams "cheap respray". I can buy Harley decals, but its like $45 for the pair of the ones that I want.
Once the logo is dealt with, it'll all receive a 2 coats of Rustoleums matte clear. I wish they made a satin clear, which is less mate, more on the gloss side, and its what harley does, but they don't. If I had big money, I'd get all the paint through ColorRite, but its about 6 times more, literally. But everywhere I read that you shouldn't mix brands. And Rustoleum is inexpensive, and I see people say the best things about rattlecan jobs with Rustoleum.
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