CB750K Cafe Racer

Wanted to post once more before I leave for Germany and then come back and have surgery to then go dark for 2 months. I got all but the cylinder head cleaned up and painted, including the anger-purchase oil pan.  I used VHT high heat engine primer and enamel.  After painting it I started to like the all black stealthy look so I decided to not polish the fins which was the initial plan.  The effect is very minimal and I can always do it later if id like.  I still have to clean and polish the points cover and the alternator cover as I will be leaving those unpainted.  I imagine I will have to repaint the "Honda" lettering on the points cover after cleaning it.  The alternator cover is a little scraped so I might replace that depending on how it turns out.  Replaced all the gaskets and o-rings with the complete rebuild kit from Randakks Cycle Shakk; a littleeee pricey but easily justifiable knowing they will be right.  For the CB750 they are the guys to go to.  I did the pis

There she is, the cylinder block and crankcase (the hardest parts to clean and mask) all stripped, cleaned and painted.  I'm telling you, there is something therapeutic about cleaning up a 40 year old motorcycle engine.  Getting brake fluid in my eye and scrubbing those gaskets off every mating surface is very comparable to hardships in life like whe..SIKE I'm not gonna do that to you.   Each one of those gaskets turned into something harder than metal; testing my patience, taunting me to bring the steel brush wheel to it at 1 million rpm BUT I DIDN'T.  At one point I literally threw the oil pan in the trash and bought a clean one from ebay.  The rebuild I don't mind, but next time I'm dropping this thing off to get vapor blasted and painted.  All in all, I'm pretty happy with how it looks.  Next I'm going to be polishing the fins on the cylinder block and then getting it back on the crankcase.   My goal is to get the engine mostly reassembled before I l