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1986 KX125 ENGINE COLOR MATCHING
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 9:17 pm
by Sandblaster
I stumbled upon this by accident.
I had a 1986 kx125 head that I wanted to clean up.
So I vapor blasted it, dried it and painted it with some High head black that I had sitting on the shelf, and baked it at 200 degrees F for 1 hour.
Looked great, but I didn't have a clue about the color until I set the head on the cylinder..

- OEM-CYCLE.COM ENGINE PAINT FOR 85-87 KX125 1.JPG (24.06 KiB) Viewed 9700 times
Yeah yeah it's a bad pic..
It says DE 1634 LOW GLOSS BLACK

- OEM-CYCLE.COM ENGINE PAINT FOR 85-87 KX125 2.JPG (56.47 KiB) Viewed 9700 times
And the results..

- OEM-CYCLE.COM ENGINE PAINT FOR 85-87 KX125 3.JPG (135.92 KiB) Viewed 9700 times
It's not a perfect match but if you painted the entire engine you would have a hard time ever knowing that it wasn't factory
Re: 1986 KX125 ENGINE COLOR MATCHING
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 9:18 pm
by Sandblaster
So, I'm thinking the 85-87 KX250's and KX500's may be the same..
I'll have to do some research on that...
Re: 1986 KX125 ENGINE COLOR MATCHING
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 9:54 pm
by Sandblaster
So... Digging around in my junk piles..... I find a 1986 KX500 engine case
I cleaned one section really good...

- OEM-CYCLE.COM ENGINE PAINT FOR 85-87 KX125 4.JPG (59.81 KiB) Viewed 9698 times
Taped it off...

- OEM-CYCLE.COM ENGINE PAINT FOR 85-87 KX125 5.JPG (55.09 KiB) Viewed 9698 times
Nice and clean....

- OEM-CYCLE.COM ENGINE PAINT FOR 85-87 KX125 6.JPG (46.26 KiB) Viewed 9698 times
Re: 1986 KX125 ENGINE COLOR MATCHING
Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 9:56 pm
by Sandblaster
Painted and baked.

- OEM-CYCLE.COM ENGINE PAINT FOR 85-87 KX125 7.JPG (29.84 KiB) Viewed 9698 times
Removed the tape and?????

- OEM-CYCLE.COM ENGINE PAINT FOR 85-87 KX125 8.JPG (40.76 KiB) Viewed 9698 times
Not exactly what I had hoped for.

- OEM-CYCLE.COM ENGINE PAINT FOR 85-87 KX125 9.JPG (78.02 KiB) Viewed 9698 times

- OEM-CYCLE.COM ENGINE PAINT FOR 85-87 KX125 9 9.JPG (47.15 KiB) Viewed 9698 times
All things being equal... the case paint is in really bad shape so it really isn't a definitive test...
If I was going to build a earlier KX I'd consider using it.
Unless of course some of you Guru's out there have a better alternative that you would like to share
