Are there any issues painting carbs?

I've never ever seen carburetors painted so there must be a good reason for it even if i don't know that reason. If the carburetors are aluminum you could anodize them black though as anodizing only changes the color and doesn't add any material to the surface.

Some bikes and personal water craft (jet skis) came stock with black carburetors.

Yes, the paint eventually chips off. As does any powder coated part.

Painting carburetors - spilled gasoline (from pulling off the main fuel line)

dissolves the paint and they look like some idiot painted them LOL

Gas fumes from the carb vents and gas spitting back through the pods

will dissolve the paint.

You can't re-paint the carbs while they are on the bike and they will have to be

dis-assembled for a professional look.

Any chips of powder coat can be touched up with an artist paint brush.

A little dab here and a little dab there.

When normal paint gets dissolved, touch up looks like crap.

I don't foresee any mechanical problems from painting the carbs.

Instead of paint, you might want to think about powder coating some of the parts. It's a much tougher finish, and won't chip or flake off as easilly as paint. No matter which way you go, make sure you don't gum up the works by getting paint on the moving parts of your throttle linkage, etc.

Why?

Just have them chromed.

EDIT: Most bike carbs are pot metal, a zinc alloy. A very few were aluminum, some cages had cast iron throttle bodies. Still, almost any metal can be anodized: http://www-glmfinc-com.netsolads.com/?MSADID=95340...

Don’t most high temperature paints need a high temperature to go off properly? I would have thought that lack of temperature combined with inevitable seepage would discolour and strip paint in short order.