One more pics of the rear seat cowl after clear on the flakes and my new 7/8 bars came in today. I had to notch them to fit in the 89 top clamp. My new grips also came in which are now on the bars.

So overall, the front and rear rotors, rear sprocket and hub, rear fairings, side fairings, front cowl and rear sets have been painted and clear coated and Im only 50% done so far.

Im 1.5 qrts of silver and 2 qrts of clear. I suspect Ill still use another 2 qrts of clear over the next two stages.

Quote from: weedahoe on March 30, 2013, 07:30:19 PM

Very nice

The paint looks awesome.

I thought the 89's interfered with the 01+ tanks. Or is that the euro ones?

Yeah. I'm happy with how it has turned out so far. I will be wet sanding the clear tonight and polishing all over the next two days or so. Unfortunately, I have to get caught up on other projects I'm doing for customers.

As for the clip ons, they have to be shimmed out and off the top clamp for extra clearance. I haven't don't it yet because I still have to drill holes and mount the controls and I won't do that until I can get it all back together and sit on it to feel for the placement of where they need to be

I have another video I uploaded to youtube and will post here later

Drooling over that paint mang! Coming together really nice. I'll have the tail fairings in the mail today

What are your plans for mounting the rear cowl? Using cowltech's tabs, going with nuts/bolts, or something special?

IDK yet, I was thinking some industrial velcro?

Ohh that's something i didn't think about! Smart thinkin, that stuff is tough and i think it would hold well. 

I didn't like the fit of mine over the stock seat foam. So I got a spare seat, trimmed down the foam and the plastic pan, then drilled holes so i can bolt cowl to the seat. That way if i want to ride 2 up, i just turn the key pop the seat off and put on my oem style seat. It works well, but I do wish there weren't any bolt heads showing on the cowl.

You cam always get some cosmetic bolt head caps to go over them and hide some of them.

Geez, I bet I have 15+ hours so far in just the wet sanding of everything and polishing of the clear coat. Im using a Griot mini 3" buffer and 3M Perfect-It 3 step polishing compounds (Rubbing compound, Machine polish and then Ultra Machine Polish). I was hoping to have everything finished cut and buffed tonight so I can paint more tomorrow. Well see.......

Well, the chromed Katana rims are on with the Sportec M3's. My Bandit 1200 rear hugger is on also. I did trim it a little as originally it covered too much IMO. Brake calipers were painted a gloss black and three stage coated with triple xxx black micro flakes. The rear brake arm is a Bandit 1200 so to have room for the 160 tire. Rotors were also painted as was the rear sprocket and hub.

GSXR 1100 rear sets are on also. New brake pads on the front and rear.

Looks incredible Weedahoe!!

 

Is that a VFR seat cowl?

IDK, it looks like it but IDK because it came with my bike when i bought it

Finally got my shift linkage modified, adjusting and working correctly.

Damn my friend. am envious. that colour is giving me some ideas for the battlepig. ( thinking a theme build @ some point soon. either this colour or the one used on friends gransporta very dark charcoal. nearly black, but some flake/pearl

Thanks. All my mechanical parts are together and everything else is buttons up and torqued with blue loctite. Mufflers are not on nor the plastics because Im working on some lighting. Once that done I will feel better.

Also, one thing I ran into today.........at home, my bike is always parked in a front tire chock. The OEM tire is 130/70/17 and my Sportec M3 is 160/60/17 and when I pulled the bike out today to clean it up a bit I noticed when on the side stand, it had a very severe lean angle now.I mean I was worried it was going to fall over it was so bad. I thought it odd being I went from a 70 series tire to a 60. My side stand was shortened a half inch some time back (another thread on that too) so I thought about ordering a new stand off ebay. But then I remembered my lowering links so I lowered it but really didnt like it. In fact, it made my rear hugger lay right up against the rear wire fender. So I lifted it back up and bought a side stand off ebay for $15 shipped. Always a problem somewhere