How to Polish Aluminum: Complete Engine Restoration 

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Hey Man, from a fellow Builder; I've done 3 GS bike's, the 400's, 425's and 450's share a lot in common. On all 3 of the motors, you can leave out the base gasket, and use a sealer (loctite 510 works best) and gain a half point in compression pretty much for free besides doing the removal of the cylinders. The intake ports can be opened up quite a bit with a dremel and 1 or two good bits. If you have the tools that's 5+ hp for free. In addition, when you omit the base gasket, this retards the cam timing, and makes the bike pull harder in the top end. This is exactly what you want on a small CC bike, as you have to rev it out to get it going anyway. So why not move the peak power another 500 RPM to the right? Flat slide carbs are the icing on the cake. The difference between a stock carb'd bike and a bike with flat slides is literally night and day. Easily another 4-5whp in going from stock to 36mm Mik's and velocity stacks with the aforementioned mods; I say this from experience. Side story, if you've read this far; The GS450 in my background photo was built this way. TM-36 Carbs, Ported/Decked Head, no Base Gasket, GS-500 Intake Cam, stiffer valve springs and a few other tricks. A buddy of mine has a 1250 Harley sportster, Screamin' Eagle Heads ($1000), Hammer 1250 ($700), Andrew's N3 Cam ($300), Dyno tuned with PC-III (500$), open exhaust. From 50-100, he'd have me by 1 bike length, and from 50-110, I was next to him at 110 and out of gearing. A few times I hit 13k RPM on the 1-2 shift, and usually shifted at 11.5k RPM. The bike was pretty dead below 7k but once it got past that, it was like hitting vtec in a honda LOL. The GS twins (all 3, 400-450) are meant to be top-end screamers. Build them this way and they reward you by punching WAY above their weight. Love the build video, looking forward to more. -Doctor Motorcycle

Great job dude! Looks unreal 🔥

Saw your BMW scrambler build and it was great . You really did the GS justice and made it look and run better than new . I had a GS450L , ‘87 was an ok bike but can garuntee yours outperformed it and looked 10x better . Keep up the great work and wishing you many years of safe and fun riding .

Amazing work dude! Hooked 🤘🏽

Question for all watching the video. Would you rather have raw audio or music over the timelapse clips? Keep in mind the when speeding up the clips the audio will be pretty distorted so I thought that might be more annoying than having the music. First time trying out filming an entire build so the feedback is much appreciated.

Muy buen trabajó!!!

Amazing work

Espectacular

what parts of the engine did you cover when you painted? was it the aluminum parts that you covered

How did you clean and prep the cylinder head fins?

Did you tape off polished engine covers before painting or did you leave them off and tape the exposed internals?

This Motor has a Face ! Lol

How did you restore the black in the Suzuki circle on the lower engine?

What kind of engine is that?

Can you get the high heat engine enamel in silver ?

What was in the spray bottle for your wet sand?

Where do you get your pod filters from

The paint will hinder heat dissipation...