Question about sv650 on ebay
 

Looking on ebay for a bike for my dad, came accross this one but looking at the photos the front of the engine is silver not black seems a bit strange.
Any Ideas ?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...:X:RTQ:GB:1123

:confused:

My sk1 curvey has a silver coloured engine.
Correction it's silver underneath the dirt. :-o
Are they supposed to be black?

Re: Question about sv650 on ebay
 

I was under the impression they was black they are black on my two curvy bikes.
Unless it was a sk1 thing.

Re: Question about sv650 on ebay
 

Looks like the clutch covers been swapped for a later model one and the engine has been kept really clean, or vapour blasted.

Ignore my earlier post, I'd had a closer look.

Looks like its been well looked after, unless its had a later model engine put in there, but with the carby rubbers instead of the injector manifolds

Re: Question about sv650 on ebay
 

Well know fact that there is silver engines, black ones have more bhp :D

Re: Question about sv650 on ebay
 

The main casings are black, but my barrels are silverish under the dirt :D

Re: Question about sv650 on ebay
 

My 99 model 650n has a black engine and twin pinch bolts on the os fork bottom,while juniors sk1 had a silver engine and a single pinch bolt.
This one seems to be a mixture of both.

Re: Question about sv650 on ebay
 

my curvy is also a silver engine. sk1

Re: Question about sv650 on ebay
 

X and Y had the black engine (more a very dark grey really - the Y had wheels the same colour).
K1 and K2 were silver engines.
Side cases were black on all curvy models.

Re: Question about sv650 on ebay
 

If you hop over to http://www.sv650.org/
and hit the FAQ, there's a section about curvy year by year changes. The black cases & silver barrels & heads were stock for a year or 2.

Clutch cover should be black though :)

Jambo