Damos new fighter project

[damo1]

Well after all the time moding my current ride (zxr750) into a early 90's race replica,the fighter bug has bitten me again.

So after collecting parts for the last couple of weeks ive finally started tearing her down.

I'm going mild rather than wild this time around so i've got a z750 headlight and front guard, a set of tomaselli axis fat bars, serco bar risers and thats pretty much the extent of this mild build.

The zxr which is a 92 mod started life as a pretty shocking fighter attempt (The green bike) by the previous owner and i picked it up for only 1500$.

I have moded a zx7 single seat unit to it and built my own under tray/ fender eliminator for it and flicked a spray gun over to get it to wear im at.

[BANDITROD]

That doesn't look to bad mate good stuff

[Large]

Was that at Ben's today?

[LKC73]

wasnt this bike on ebay a little while ago??

[BANDITROD]

I think that's where Damo got it from Luke

[LKC73]

I think that's where Damo got it from Luke

That would explan where I had seen it before lol....

[Large]

Christmas colours?

[damo1]

Large: Yes it was me, i saw you drive past you rude prick;)

LKC: I'm not sure mate i picked it up from Gumtree.

Yes large especially for you for Xmas mate :o

Cheers damo

[damo1]

Got abit done this morning stripped her down.

Lines look pretty good i recon, had a choice of head lights 1 is a z750 the other is a nsr150 nose fairing cut and modded ........... i went with the z750 one.

I like the agressive look to it and it suits the bike better i think.

Anyway i'm pretty much finished it a bit of paint to be flicked ove the headlight surround and sort out the speedo and idiot lights properly and of course some mirrors.

cheers damo

[damo1]

Done a bit more on my bike.

Thanks to Revheadpete for parting with his fighter headlight set up its now on my ZXR

Also fitted a led late model zx6r taillight.

Running wr450 speedo at the mo.

Fitted some mirrors and relocated the key down under the frame rail on the right side above the gearbox and cut off the key surround and braket off the top triple and smoothed it out.

Any feedback welcome as usual

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[Iceman]

Looking good Damo.

[RevHead]

speedo,s in the mail ,cheers

[Gix11]

Looks loads better Damo. Good choice mate.

[damo1]

Cheers pete;)

And thanks guys, not sure what to do about paint with this one though??

[RevHead]

what about gun metal grey with sliver strips through it

[damo1]

Yeah not a bad idea.

I think i'm gonna go with a custom 1 off air brush damaged steel look, not rips and tears!

Ive got in my head now what i wanna do just gotta get a round to doing it.

[RevHead]

The 2nd world war grey steel stressed look ,hhmm,with rivets and bullet holes

[damo1]

Na ive done that already on my dirt bike helmet Navy grey with rivets and old age look- less bullet holes anyway.
But i have been thinking of going back at it and putting an entry bullet hole at the front and an exit hole at the
back with a huge amount of blood running done the back of it for fun.

And i've done an army cammo on my open face commuter helmet as well.

I'll post some pics up of them for you.

I was thinking about going all out on this one with something like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr8ErF_lLaU&feature=player_embedded

And then maybe panelling it in with rivets but not sure if it would be to much??

What do you recon??

[RevHead]

that looks awesome

[pav69]

can i come down and help you attack your bike with a screwdriver and a soldering iron damo looks like loads of fun

[damo1]

Pete: yeah i think the impact should be awesome.

Pav: by all means come down it aint offen you get to scratch a bike on purpose.;)

[damo1]

Hers my dirt bike helmet Air brushed in a panelling affect with rivets.

[damo1]

Heres my commuter open face painted in layered army cammo affect

[damo1]

I also did a water droplet affect on my old k1 gixer 750, which was very controversal

[xa-mont]

my paint gets that effect after about a week of not washing it :P

[damo1]

Righto got the paint finished.

I decided to panel it out with rivets as well, and go with the damaged steel affect as well.

the headlight i just high lighted the creases with black and darked the the head light slots them selves.

All up the i reacon the paint job took me about 2hrs, i'm undecided about the wheels?
Not sure weather to do them satin black or the bluey silver i used as a top color.

i have also repainted the frame satin black and im going to blow in the swing arm black aswell.

As usual i'm open to any feed back neg/pos.

Cheers damo

[RevHead]

how fucking good does that look yeah .top shelf .

[ozzy1100]

nice damo

[Bob]

I like it, top stuff mate.

[rod185651]

That looks awesome Damo, When the wheels are done it'll look smick

[ALBI]

Righto got the paint finished.

I decided to panel it out with rivets as well, and go with the damaged steel affect as well.

the headlight i just high lighted the creases with black and darked the the head light slots them selves.

All up the i reacon the paint job took me about 2hrs, i'm undecided about the wheels?
Not sure weather to do them satin black or the bluey silver i used as a top color.

i have also repainted the frame satin black and im going to blow in the swing arm black aswell.

As usual i'm open to any feed back neg/pos.

Cheers damo

did you ever see the gsx that won a paintjob in streefighter mag about 12 years ago ??

of all the paint and colour scheames he went with a simular style but had gravel rash and exposed wiring n shit airbrushed into it !!
as soon as i saw youre new paint it reminded me of it ,looks good youres does .

[damo1]

did you ever see the gsx that won a paintjob in streefighter mag about 12 years ago ??

of all the paint and colour scheames he went with a simular style but had gravel rash and exposed wiring n shit airbrushed into it !!
as soon as i saw youre new paint it reminded me of it ,looks good youres does .


No i have'nt seen it?? But super keen to see it if anyone has a picture of it?

Cheers for the feedback all, i'm still not sure of wheel colour?

Black i'm leaning to?? what you guys reacon??

[pav69]

black is the only colour damo keep leaning mate youll do it .

[Gix11]

Black for sure mate, it will make the panel paint stand out even more.

That must have taken fuckin' hours mate! Good stuff.

[RevHead]

Its in the mail Damo, charcoal wheels would look better ,black makes the wheels look dirty,my 2 cents worth

[mozza]

Its in the mail Damo, charcoal wheels would look beater ,black makes the wheels look dirty,my 2 cents worth

Gloss black will be the go !

Beater ?

[damo1]

every dog VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV

WTF does this mean??

And cheers for the postage;)

I dont think charcol will suit it as there is no charcol on the bike to go with it.

I'm gonna do them satin black same as the frame- that way no matter what colour i paint the bike in the future the wheels will suit it.

Cheers for the feedback and i'll post more pics when i'm done.

I've also picked up an r6 shorty can that may make its way on to the bike as well, or i have a different idea altogether that i may run with.

Watch this space.

[mozza]

He's replying to my post regarding me taking the piss out of his spelling :D

[damo1]

He's replying to my post regarding me taking the piss out of his spelling :D

Use spell check you dumb fuck, that's why it's there !! woof woof woof


O ok that makes sense, are you an english teacher mozza??

[mr.zxr]

looks great. you've got some skills with the spray gun that's for sure.

[mozza]

O ok that makes sense, are you an english teacher mozza??

No mate, :)

[RevHead]

i beat you cant keep your eyes off the new helmet Damo

[mozza]

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[damo1]

No mate, :)

O ok just wondered why your picking up spelling mistakes??

I make heaps and no one has commented on mine!

Pete: yeah very happy mate, but i think i'm gonna panit over the flame job i'm not that keen on it.

[LKC73]

Damo, the paint work looks awesome mate, you have done a great job with it and the Lids too. black wheels for sure, but if you want a little contrast, polish the outer rim.

[damo1]

polish the outer rim.

Cheers mate, na i cant do polished alloy again after my blade frame- drove me nuts.

[damo1]

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Heres the latest on the ZXR painted wheels, i re-angled the exhaust and also refitted the ram air tubes.

I'm still not sure what to do with them?? I dont want to fill, the holes in teh tank - i think they can work with the theme of the bike but what to do??

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Other than that i'm happy with the way it's turned out, for a budget fighter build it's ended up in my eye pretty tidy.

[RevHead]

with the holes in the tank,could you make a bezel of some kind you could put a small gauge of some sort in the holes ,say water temp and oil pressure
bike looks tops,

[damo1]

Nice idea, but they are the wrong angle mate. They are at sort of 45de to the flat of the tank and angle towards the bars unfortunately.

Id like to run the ram air pipes but not sure how or where to finish them off?

I was thinking of building a single ram air chute about 4" oval that runs between/over the tripples and is solid bolted/mounted at the front of teh tank and then running the pipes up to it at the sides and rear.

But i'm just not sure if it will work and it's a lot of work for it to be tossed in the trash if you know what i mean.

[Tony Nitrous]

Bike looks good, I like it.
I like the ram-air tubes too.

The tank and pipes look good (to me)
as you say, its just a case of what you put at the ends.

[RevHead]

hey Damo could you run the tubes under the bars to finish under the mask ,maybe get some stainless pipes made up n welded together so they plug into that ,or make them finish were they are just using as stainless so they come around both sides of the speedo unit,maybe paint the stainless up as machine guns ,something like that

[sharky]

Why not just mock up with carboard tubes painted silver....

And Machine guns WTF ???

[RevHead]

Why not just mock up with carboard tubes painted silver....

And Machine guns WTF ???

it was just an idea nothing more ,

[damo1]

Cheers for the feedback;

Pete: Not sure i wanna get that carriesd away with a theme.

Sharky: great idea mate i dont know why i didnt think of that??

Tony: Cheers mate