91 Gixxxer..............99% There!

[HueyonaBlade]

Long and the short of it a great M8 of mine bought this new in 91 and raced it for a coulpe of years , it was then put back to stock and he sold it to his brother , his brother has basically treated it with contempt and neglect so it has been reclaim to be rebourne [^]. Having a little previuos experience I was asked to have a crack at it which is proving to be challenging and I have barely started .[:I]
This is how she was when I got her ,










And here she is as a work in progress with the fat bars and original sub cut clear , I have made up the top sub mounts for the 04 ZX 6 sub and seat unit and the bottoms mounts to come hopefully tommorrow then Im of to the Alloy welder to get them soughted , I have a few things with Rupert getting powder coated , the USD forks have been re -anodised black so hopefully she should be starting to get put back together at the end of next week with the olins rear shock to go in

[Large]

The all time classic fighter.

What's the foamyshit on the frame?

[fimpBIKES]

thatd be oven cleaner yeah? or paint stripper


nice work mate, but thanks for whacking it all up in one go
makes us longtermers look like real slow cunts

[HueyonaBlade]

Yeah Large she is your high quality home brand oven cleaner as when I ground down the old sub frame point where they were welded to the frame the clear odising was removed back to the edge of the frame so it would have looked shit so the top frame rail had to be all polished (by hand not even my bike[V] that sucks )
Come on fimp an old time pro like yourself should know that if a first post is this big it can only me that im a lazy cunt and couldnt have been bothered doing it earlierits already been in the shed for a month.

[HueyonaBlade]

Well I have had a busy weekend , got the paint back from Al (Gibbo to the layman)on friday evening, BTW Awsome job mate with stripes , so to many beers friday night ment that the re-assembly had to be started on Saturday , Over all Im pretty bloody happy with the end results and believe it or not so is the owner so thats a double bonus , the only thing that still has to be done is to tune the carbies hopefully tomorrow ,set the speedo settings,shorten the clutch cable , change some bolts and other little odd bits and pieces and I wish I had of done it earlier but I have finally talked my mate into pulling the motor out and giving it a coat of black but thats next month at least.......What do you guys recon[?][:I]

[atomic]

starting to look good mate keep it up

[lewis]

nice tidy bike mate, love the old schoolish feel to the paint, looks trick!

[Deano]

looks good mate, top job. you just gotta do something with that red guard and your set

[wackyrider]

looking good mate. Only thing is the twin spots i reckon.

Not my cupa tea. But the again, that's just me

[latheboy]

Very nice Dave .. the paint looks good, id cut the can in half and put some strips on the guard.. Still great job, you should keep it!!!

[Chase]

Looks sweet!

[Tone]

Excellent.love it.

[Lucas]

Are you gonna tuck the clutch cable in a little?

Looks the goods tho. Keep the guard red.

[el sammo]

looks awsome dude i like it! i had a 89 750 it was bullet proof

[FIGHTERMC]

Look very good mate.

nice bike mate,i love the tail.....

[crazymofo]

fucking shithot.

im surprised the 03/04 zx6 tail isnt used more commonly

cheers.joe.

[pappas]

Did you do the wheels yourself Huey?

[HueyonaBlade]

Nah I had a guy polish the outers and an old visitor to this site powder coated the centres for me but I took them off and put them back on myself

[Shadowzone]

I'm in agreement with regards to painting the front guard although I think it would look best with white down the outside and the red centre. Only my opinion though which ultimately means nothing.

I would also try and tuck in the clutch cable but apart from that it's beautiful.

The old school paint job looks the goods and you've done a fantastic job on the rest. now all she needs is that engine recoloured and your home and hosed...