Painting engines

[GSF]

I want to have a crack at dropping the engine out of the Bandit and giving it a lick of paint.

Does anyone who has done this before have any pointers before I drop the engine? I'm planning on giving it a bloody good clean, then a sand before applying some black VHT engine enamel or similar high temperature paint. Then polish the edges of the fins to bare metal for the silver-edged look.

I have seen some people say online that after painting their engines have run considerably hotter (usually after painting air-cooled twins). Is this likely to be an issue?
It's a 250cc liquid-cooled four cylinder. I'd imagine that the radiator does the lion's share of the cooling.

[whowhatwhere]

VHT paint generally needs a high heat to fully cure and I doubt the engine casing would get anywhere near hot enough. Used engine enamel on my last bike and that was fine, keep the VHT stuff for headers and exhausts.

[GSF]

Cheers, good to know.

Did you simply drop the whole engine out and do it all together, or remove clutch/alternator/sprocket covers and paint them separately?

The engine is factory painted, like a lot of the alloy on the bike. I imagine that I'd need to scuff the existing layer of paint up a bit to get a good bond with the engine enamel. I'm not very experienced with painting things so this is pretty new to me.