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Had a little time this weekend to work on the bike. I like the tank I got but couldn't stand the pinched joint along the bottom of it. Didn't want to make any major changes to the shape, just clean it up a bit. This has probably been done hundreds of times before, but here is how I am going...

I was on a Honda crotch rocket at the time, but I'm sure your bike will be even more fun up there! Good luck with the build

About to start fabbing up my café racer seat. Anyone have any recomendations for resin/fiberglass matt? Spent some time over in the boat store today (yeah, advantage of living near the water) and the salesman kept pushing the West system is which is so pricey! Anyone used a resin system...

Not that I have come across that is a 2k product that would give you that hard protective finish against fuel spills on the tank.

I had a sort of similar situation with my bike. I found that I had a cracked lower case at the oil drain plug. In trying to find out what to do (I have to decided to jb weld it for now so it doesn't leak) I looked on ebay and found some pretty decent complete motors for under $300. Most had...

Just finished reading several other revues on other bike forums, as well as some more research on eastwood's site. Safe to use on any base coat, including laquer, urethane and most importantly for me, enamel. Everyone I have read that has used it raves about it, saying the end result looks...

Professional painting is not in the budget!

As long as I use Tyvek suit/respirator, etc., it should do work okay over the enamel? It would save me a "TON" of quid, as you would say (I think) over there.

http://www.eastwood.com/eastwood-s-2k-aero-spray-high-gloss-clear.html

Anyone used this? Wanted to paint tank and café seat with rustoleum auto enamel and the clear coat with the Eastwood. Anyone know if it would work over enamel? Thanks, any feedback would be appreciated.

Where in VA are you? I went to college in Lexington and spent many hours riding the back roads and Blue Ridge Parkway. Really miss that, the roads here in Florida are straight and flat for the most part. And welcome, love the cleared tank!

To give you all an idea of where I am trying to take this build I thought I would show you a few of my inspirations. The 550 for design and the others for paint scheme. Hope you enjoy, and hope I can even come close. Thanks for looking.

So today I had a "I hate this f#%@ing bike!" moment. I spent all of yesterday and today stripping, polishing and painting the controls and levers. Hours! They looked like new! Started putting the left side controls on the bar, everything is looking great and then snap! The clamping bolt...

I don't keep track so my mrs doesn't nag me!

Looks awesome, great work! Hope mine comes out half as good

Didn't have much time tonight but when you get a package containing parts from Paolo Tarozzi you got to put em on the bike, right? Did a quick mock up to see how everything will look, and got to admit I'm pretty psyched! I ordered rearsets which came on Monday and were for an XJ750 instead...

thanks FB, that's what I thought but wanted to ask others who would know better than I!

Quick question for you all. About to start on my tank, already stripped the paint, and outside rust. Removed the emblem brackets and welded the holes from them shut. The tank looks pretty clean inside, but thought I should do some cleaning in there and then coat it. What should I do...

Well, hello again, been awhile. Life got in the way and didn't have time to devote to my bike. Made some great progress this week though. Thanks to Sqirrel and Dave for the spirited discussion on whether or not the position of reservoir would work as mounted. I have, in the end, however...

WTF? Lookin great Mr. Y!