A Tale of Two Zeds

[Bevelheadmhr]

Finally got the engine mounts and rear caliper mount done, once linished, took them to be hard anodised. Along with an old Astralite wheel, which needs to be given its original gold finish... but that's for another different project.

 

[Bevelheadmhr]

The billet parts have been hard anodised and fitted to the bike..

 

[Bevelheadmhr]

The tank had a dent that was tricky to remove. Using a steel rod, held in a vice which was passed through the filler cap, then carefully hammering the tank against the rod removed most of the dent. A little filler did the rest. Paint is rattle can 1K candy apple blue, when its gassed off in a few weeks, will use 2K clear top coat and add decals/pinstripes between the coats of 2K.

 

[Rider52]

Looks good!

 

[Bevelheadmhr]

Applied the decals, followed by three more coats of 2K clear. Now have to wait a few days for the 2K to harden, then can flatten it back and give the paint polish..

 

[Bevelheadmhr]

With the badges and filler cap fitted, just need to polish the paintwork and its done. The 2K clear seems a little soft after a few days, so that can wait until the clear is fully cured. Next job is to make the rearsets..

 

[adventurco]

Looks great. I always get impatient waiting for clear to harden.


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[Luugo86]

Love the color choices, the paint came out really well

 

[Maritime]

Nice

 

[Bevelheadmhr]

Got the old Astralite wheel back from the local coating specialist, pretty good colour match from an original section cut out of an old wheel..

 

[Bevelheadmhr]

While I'm working on some homemade rearsets for my GPz project...

 

[Bevelheadmhr]

Fitted the paintwork to the bike for the first time, looks ok, but all is not good. The 2K clear coat on the tank is still 'soft' after a month. Clearly there was a problem with the hardener in the last special rattle can I used. I'm told the clear coat will eventually harden even without any hardener, but no idea how long that may take.

In the meantime the wheels have gone of to have tyres fitted, getting the bike rolling on its wheels will be a milestone.. its sitting on a small trolley at the moment, its not too stable.

With a new, different brake lever made, the brake side rearset was test fitted to the bike, before its bracket was drilled and shaped to mount the master cylinder.

 

[Bevelheadmhr]

On its wheels at last, with rearsets done. Weighs 81kg as it sits, don't know by how much, but its much lighter than a stock bike in the same state.

 

[Rider52]

Watched your you tube channel today.

 

[Bevelheadmhr]

Watched your you tube channel today.

Fame at last! lol

 

[Maritime]

Fame at last! lol

link it up!

 

[Bevelheadmhr]

Have fun.. https://www.youtube.com/@Merch131ho

 

[Maritime]

Thanks

 

[Bevelheadmhr]

The front discs turned out to be from an 05 R6, not a04, they are 10mm bigger, which meant the calipers didn't fit. Bought an aftermarket set of the correct size, and also swapped the gold spots for Blue spots, as I preferred the look.. The rear brake torque arm looked a bit thick, so was slimmed down a couple of 22 on the lathe. While the custom rear brake line from HEL arrived and was fitted. The dyna coils were fitted, which required spacers. The rear spacers were covered in heat shrink to insulate them from the nearby low tension wire/screw.

 

[Luugo86]

Like the color combo