Painted Heatshield - Quick, Easy and Sweeeeeet
This is a real nice trick to spruce up your Black (Possibly red?) Ninja’s. Poster MurderedOut over at KawiForums posted up a few pics of his bike — and the first thing that caught my eye was the painted exhaust heat shield. To me, adding the paint really helps the blacks on the bike flow, instead of having this vomit of chrome brake side…
The How-To on this is pretty easy:
1. Remove 2 Bolts for heat shield.
2. Clean heat shield.
3. Lightly sand heat shield.
4. Shake Can.
5. Point and Spray.
6. Let Dry.
7. Re attach with 2 screws.
MurderedOut said he used a flat black.. And after thinking about it, I think I agree that the Flat black will look better than a high gloss black here. Either way — Make sure you get a high temp paint made for engine blocks, bbq grills, or other high temp applications. (Dupli-color makes a ceramic paint good up to 1200° which I highly recommend)
So after receiving my Competition werks Fender Elimintaor in the mail, the whole raw stainless look just didn’t seem to fit my bike. In fact - The Ninja is mostly black, with the only real splash of chrome coming from the exhaust… (And I still don’t think Chrome and Stainless Match very well…)
