Making your own seat unit..

[Funkenfresh]

well the bike is offf the road for the 6th time this year...
and this time the tail is being cut... so i need to ask.. has anyone fiberglassed their own seat unit up?? post up your pics or someone elses... pros/cons??

[Seifer]

Look for Bens write up in the how-to section:
http://www.streetfighters.com.au/ASF_HT_seat.asp

[Cruisecontrol]

I made my own a few months back:

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6240

Was easier than I thought it would be too...

[TurboKat]

Sharky....... [?]

[sharky]

Yep me too. Made a mock up out of all sorts of stuff, covered it with release agent and then a 2 piece mould.
Best advice is if its your first attempt don't try to get too trick.
I've made a few bits but this was my first 2 piece mould and the finished unit needed a bit of 'tinkering'

[zx12argh]

I took an original seat and trimmed it, fibreglassed it and recovered it.
Go with exbens how too then get a profesional to recover it. You can do 90% of the foam work yourself.

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4977&whichpage=1&SearchTerms=seat

This sort of shows what I did - page 2

[Tony Nitrous]

Only little trick I ever did was to fibreglass a new seat unit
onto a stock old seat base. RGV250 onto GSXR11.

Mounted rear lights/indicators/number plate etc all onto / under
the new seatbase and put all the wires through one push-in multi-plug.

Turn the standard key in the seatlock and pull one plug and the
whole rear, seat's/light's/bodywork/numberplate, everthing, lifts off.

Tony.J.