Recent content by Haligonian

Your panel looks great, very nice choice of colour and texture. I used that same vinyl on the upper half of our company's HHR (everything above the bodyline above the door handles [including the hood and roof]). The rest of the car was wrapped with a couple of other vinyl colours (White Aluminum...

I work in the sign/vehicle graphics industry and vinyl wrap all the time. 3M makes many types of vinyl for specific applications. It sounds like the 3M vinyl you are talking about is their wrapping cast 1080 film. This stuff is made for wrapping cars (we buy it in 60" rolls). Some vinyls you can...

Joe Rocket make hemp jacket that looks really nice.

Wow! That is an offensive statement about your younger generation.

If you clearcoat over bare metal, the clear will likely not adhere properly and eventually come off. You should clear primer it first and then clearcoat it. Where I work, we do a lot of painting on aluminum and if a customer wants a bare aluminum look, we use clear primer then a clearcoat over...

I remember reading some time ago (I think it was in the tank a seat section) about JRK5892 testing to see if the frozen water trick works. You way want to search for his results. If I remember correctly I think the tank split and still had the dents. I think in that same thread it also described...

Wow, that's probably why they wanted to remain anonymous.

You may need fenders on your bike for the safety inspection (local laws differ fom place to place).

Instead of having a plastic inner tank and metal shell you can fabricate a metal tank and seal it with a tank sealer. Designing and fabricating a tank is a lot of fun (do as much reseach as you can and have fun building it).

Thanks for the compliment Stik70. Let me know if you plan on doing any work to the 75 GT185 in your parents garage and need a service manual. I have a service manual and am in the process of scanning the pages to compile as a pdf document. If you want a copy, let me know.

I'd like to nominate theracedude's 1976 kZ400.

That paint looks really really sweet!

The first Cafe Racer I seen was 20 years ago and I've wanted to built one ever since. Last August I bought a 1976 Suzuki GT185 (all factory). I learned to weld aluminum and build a new aluminum gas tank, aluminum side covers, aluminum seat cowl, and a new seat. I still have stuff I want to do to...

I was also looking into something called Sintra to build a seat out of... it's moldable plastic board and I figure I could give it a shot since it seems easy to work with. Anyone have experience with it? And know where I could find some in vancouver? We use Sintra alot in the signage...