Super Hawk Engine Cover Color

[Seadog]

My Super Hawk came with a chromed engine cover. I assume that chrome was not standard and that a previous owner wanted a little bling. The horn cover is chrome as well. The engine cover is not really in terrible shape, but the chrome is starting to peel and I have no facility nearby that can remove it. I decided to just buy another and paint it.

My question is what color? I always thought the standard was silver, like the engine side covers, but where my replacement wasn't rusty, it looks as if it was painted black - perhaps over silver. See pics below.

Can anyone tell me how these came standard from Honda?

[G-Man]

Seadog

I'm sure that others will correct me if I'm wrong but all of the ones I've seen in Honda packaging have been silver.

G

My Super Hawk came with a chromed engine cover. I assume that chrome was not standard and that a previous owner wanted a little bling. The horn cover is chrome as well. The engine cover is not really in terrible shape, but the chrome is starting to peel and I have no facility nearby that can remove it. I decided to just buy another and paint it.

My question is what color? I always thought the standard was silver, like the engine side covers, but where my replacement wasn't rusty, it looks as if it was painted black - perhaps over silver. See pics below.

Can anyone tell me how these came standard from Honda?

[Seadog]

Thank you, G. I think the top should be silver as well, but I hope others will chime in to confirm our opinion. I just took the cover out of the de-rusting tank to wire brush it a bit. The underside paint has peeled off and it was definitely black. I wonder if that side was originally black, like the standard horn cover - silver outside, black inside. It's not a big deal as I'm not a diehard purist, but it's easy enough to paint it either way.

[LOUD MOUSE]

That cover was Silver when HONDA issued that bike.
Never Black on it from HONDA. ...................lm

Thank you, G. I think the top should be silver as well, but I hope others will chime in to confirm our opinion. I just took the cover out of the de-rusting tank to wire brush it a bit. The underside paint has peeled off and it was definitely black. I wonder if that side was originally black, like the standard horn cover - silver outside, black inside. It's not a big deal as I'm not a diehard purist, but it's easy enough to paint it either way.

[Seadog]

That cover was Silver when HONDA issued that bike.
Never Black on it from HONDA. ...................lm

Thank you, LM. I've finished de-rusting and will be priming and painting it all silver tomorrow. The top came out more pitted than I'd hoped, but the back is fine.

[48lesco]

VHT High Temperature Engine Enamel SP127 Universal Aluminum is a good match in my opinion. I use it on all of the painted parts of the engine (clutch, kicker, valley, and starter covers, as well as the starter). I like it because you can bake it on for 20 minutes and then it has excellent fuel resistance. Instructions on the can. I used the kitchen oven and it doesn't leave any odor. I did not ask for permission to do that beforehand...

[G-Man]

Living dangerously there 48.... :-)

G

I did not ask for permission to do that beforehand...