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Posted by RockinRollin
- June 28, 2017, 07:43:53 AMGood job Mr. Greenbarn, now that's a retro bike! 
And nice tank badge, you make that?
Posted by kw-retrorider
- June 28, 2017, 03:45:42 AMGreenbarn...nice job. Particularly like lots of the little details....rear light set-up and tank badge aesthetics to name a few.
For the greater good: I was also interested in the powder coat in gloss. Last saw you at Drift-in in 2013. I finished the black roadhouse on my 800 with high temp flat black exhaust paint, followed by semi-gloss black engine paint. (rattle can)
- This scheme worked on the exhaust tip, which is showing no degradation
- The canister has a hot spot that is peeling the top layer of engine paint, but not disturbing the underlying flat exhaust paint.
- The heat shields had to be unbent so were refinished with the semi-gloss engine paint and have held up fine.
Exhaust paint good for 1000 degrees F; Engine paint good for 500 degrees F.
So, was your powdercoat guy out of gloss or did they tell you it wouldn't hold up? Anybody ever try black chrome or porcelain finish? No looking to do anything immediately. My experiment largely worked....and a rattle can touch every couple of years is cheap.
Photo below when completed in time for Drift-In 2013. Will follow with a current photo.
Posted by greenbarn
- June 27, 2017, 21:07:07 PMQuote from: Bucko on June 27, 2017, 00:32:06 AMThanka Bucko nand Old Drifter for the compliments. Bucko to answer your questions:Looks awesome! Couple of questions:
- How did you achieve the black wheel and spokes? Powder coat? Paint? It seems that you left a strip un-blacked around the outside of the rim - was that to allow for mar-free tire changes?
- How is the gloss black powder coating (I think I read that) holding up on the exhaust heat shields?
- Did you consider doing the muffler in gloss black too or were you thinking the gloss black wouldn't hold up to the heat?
-The wheels were sand blasted and powder coated gloss black, then I had my pin-stripe guy hand-pinstripe them. He's over 60, and he's been doing this for a long time. He did the pin striping on the tins as well, and also did my 1500 pin-stripe work.
-the pipes are doing fine so far- I don't think the heat shield will give me problems. I actually would have preferred the whole pipe, muffler and all, to be the same matching gloss black, however they did not have a "gloss" high-temp black- only the "matte" in the high-temp. When I got them back, found out the "matte" also has a lot of texture, which I'm not really nuts about. Not sure how it will be to keep it clean. I may have to clean it with a brush, and live with how it turn out, we'll see. They assured me the gloss would be OK for the shields (they don't get as hot), and actually thought the gloss "might" be OK on the muffler but I made the decision to go with the "high temp" for the muffler.
Posted by greenbarn
- June 27, 2017, 20:58:39 PMQuote from: Tfrank59 on June 26, 2017, 23:22:02 PMdoes she sound something like one of these?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yggVeXqrpP8 (this one, it's the second exhaust he's running)
Yeppers, sounds a whole lot like that blue bike in the second vid. I'll have to see if I can figure out how to do a short video.
Posted by Tfrank59
- June 27, 2017, 11:43:04 AMMine too 
Posted by CDNRatMan
- June 27, 2017, 08:52:45 AMQuoteTfrank: I was told by the local Kaw guy that a Vulcan engine had to idle at 1000 rpm or the oil would not get to the top of the engine properly. The engine is meant to idle at 1000. This is the guy that I would trust to work on my bike and to do the right job. So if he says it is so then it is so. I have heard this from other mechanics as well. So mine is idling at 1000 rpm when warmed up and ready to run.Yeah you were saying in order for the oil to pump properly it needs to idle at about 1000 so that guy's got turn it up a bit
Posted by Old Drifter
- June 27, 2017, 05:58:27 AMLooks great! Well thought out with awesome personal touches.
Posted by Bucko
- June 27, 2017, 00:32:06 AMLooks awesome! Couple of questions:
- How did you achieve the black wheel and spokes? Powder coat? Paint? It seems that you left a strip un-blacked around the outside of the rim - was that to allow for mar-free tire changes?
- How is the gloss black powder coating (I think I read that) holding up on the exhaust heat shields?
- Did you consider doing the muffler in gloss black too or were you thinking the gloss black wouldn't hold up to the heat?
Posted by Tfrank59
- June 27, 2017, 00:06:17 AMYeah you were saying in order for the oil to pump properly it needs to idle at about 1000 so that guy's got turn it up a bit
Posted by CDNRatMan
- June 26, 2017, 23:44:57 PMThe blue bike sounds more like my Roadhouse pipes other than the idle is set to low that is the sound.....
Posted by Tfrank59
- June 26, 2017, 23:22:02 PMdoes she sound something like one of these? 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yggVeXqrpP8 (this one, it's the second exhaust he's running)
Posted by greenbarn
- June 26, 2017, 21:10:29 PMQuote from: CDNRatMan on June 26, 2017, 19:38:49 PMAin't that the truth... LOL. It does indeed sound throaty. It came with a baffle which I cleaned up and painted and put back in. The baffle has no packing on it. It's louder than I thought it would be (to my extreme satisfaction), but it's still not as loud as the Hard Khrome duals were, to my memory... It seems to me a little throatier than the Roadhouse on the 1500 for whatever reason.Mr. Tfrank you will be needing to be careful if you have never heard a Roadhouse exhaust in real life you will get a little stiffy. Because it has such a seductive sound....you will be in love instantly.
Make sure you come up to Andy's for Canadian Rendezvous, and you should be able to hear a few of them.
Posted by CDNRatMan
- June 26, 2017, 19:38:49 PMMr. Tfrank you will be needing to be careful if you have never heard a Roadhouse exhaust in real life you will get a little stiffy. Because it has such a seductive sound....you will be in love instantly.
Posted by Tfrank59
- June 26, 2017, 00:24:32 AMAgain, very nicely done. I wonder how it sounds, I've never heard the exhaust note of a roadhouse on a 800 V twin-- is she a little throaty?
Posted by greenbarn
- June 25, 2017, 21:56:37 PMYes, I sandblasted it down to bare shiney clean metal.