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Next up will be removing all the casting marks and painting the upper and lower triple clamp, was going to powder coat but that metal putty shit i used is temp rated less then what it would be baked at, plus i would have to remove the steering stem bearings which have only just been replaced, stay tuned
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Shit yea, that's the spirit!
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Going well mate, the more you do yourself the more appreciation you'll have of bike. Keep up the pic's mate.
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bits painted and its back together, put the yoshi back on it so i can ride it while i knock up another muffler. Going to put it through its paces next week when im on RnR, burn all that excess paint off haha
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Looks wicked mate. Absolutely think you knocked this out the park. Top job.
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cheers mate, fucking love this thing now, cant wipe the smile off my face when im on it.
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started on the exhaust now, pulled the ends off of the dan moto muffler and the packing was pretty much shagged. Got some 3 1/2" stainless exhaust pipe to use as the outer shell which was slightly thicker so had to take a lick out of each end on the lathe.
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taking it to work tomorrow and see if the boily can tig the tip on for me, will drill and rivet the other end with some fresh packing.
started messing around with a muffler tag idea, muffler will be black with the tag polished or another colour, havent decided yet.
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knuckles with a jigsaw piece, bit of a autism awareness snuck in there
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love the look mate. nice job
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Exhaust is on, sounds reasonable but has made it a little doughy down low, might have to get it re-tuned. Will give it a paint in the next couple of days but will eventually get it ceramic coated with the headers, the paint on the headers pretty much flaked off straight away after i put them on and started riding
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Nice work Damo, that looks tidy as! You going to ceramic coat the muffler and headers at the same time? Still going with the knuckles on the can?
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yep ill get them done together so it all matches, Ill give the knuckles a bit of a polish up and fit them after the coating is done
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What did you paint the headers with again? Seems weird it would come off first go if it was HT paint.
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it was a dupli colour high heat stuff from supercrap, had ceramic in it and supposedly good for 1100 degrees. Have to admit the prep work wasn't sensational so it may be more a faulty workmanship rather then shit paint
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Fair enough. Oh well, at least the ceramic coating will save the day.
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yup, once the weather turns to shit the exhaust will come back off and receive the professional job, untill then, as long as people maintain a 5 metre perimeter, then they wont notice
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Muffler painted, while it was cooking on the bbq i got bored and started fucking around with a belly pan chopping up the original one. front of it still needs trimming to suit the lines of the bike but it will do for the 500k ride on Saturday
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Muffler came up a treat mate!
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Cheers,
So the belly pan wasn't as stable as anticipated and broke one of the mounting tabs during the run, luckily was close to home and managed to limp it back without damaging it. Wind protection sucks no matter how much i tried to tuck in under the speedo, i knew that was gonna be the case after stripping it back but wasnt prepared for how bad it was during the "spirited" runs. The steering dampener needs to go back on also, had a bit of head shake during said "spirited" runs.
Nothing like a day out with the Hayabusa boys to iron out any potential bugs, back in the shed she goes
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Looking Killer and love the belly pan. Hope you sort your issues. Wind however will never be your friend on a fighter.
That's just fighter life for you LOL