Project "Never satisfied" - A very British rebuild!
Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 4:31 pm
OK, moved house and I now have that wonder of wonders, a garage! Ah, the heady aroma of oil and grease mingling with tobacco fumes and the steam from my PG tips is a wondrous thing to experience!
Anyway, with some smart new premises my rebuild can continue. Now, as per usual, it's gotta be on a budget - the car needs a few hundred spent on it for it's MOT (yearly government inspection) and Mrs Farty has threatend to withold nuptuals unless I get jiggy with some decorating. Bummer.
So, in the interests of economy and achieving my favoured style on the cheap I'm going for the cafe racer look, so the standard clip ons but with a single 7" round headlamp are the order of the day. The frame is being repainted by myself, with hidden areas (such as the sub frame) being painted by hand with a thick, durable enamel paint called Hammerite Smooth (not sure you colonial boys get it over there, which is a shame). The visible parts of the frame will be spray painted with the same paint.
The GSXR SRAD shock is now in place after much cussing, as is the newly painted swinger. It seems my tourettes is back and unlikely to be cured until work is complete! The wheels are conna be stripped with polished rims and black spokes. The seat unit looks likely to be a Duke 916 monoposto job, painted to match the VGC Kosinski special edition tank and front mudguard that I still have. Engine side cases to go black.
Sounds straightforward, but there's a hideous amount of work painting little brackets, relocating electrics, finding a home for a gel battery and a smaller coolant tank, etc that really slows things down, but the plan is for the old girl to turn a wheel come spring time.
Pics to follow tomorrow when I find my cameras lead!
Anyway, with some smart new premises my rebuild can continue. Now, as per usual, it's gotta be on a budget - the car needs a few hundred spent on it for it's MOT (yearly government inspection) and Mrs Farty has threatend to withold nuptuals unless I get jiggy with some decorating. Bummer.
So, in the interests of economy and achieving my favoured style on the cheap I'm going for the cafe racer look, so the standard clip ons but with a single 7" round headlamp are the order of the day. The frame is being repainted by myself, with hidden areas (such as the sub frame) being painted by hand with a thick, durable enamel paint called Hammerite Smooth (not sure you colonial boys get it over there, which is a shame). The visible parts of the frame will be spray painted with the same paint.
The GSXR SRAD shock is now in place after much cussing, as is the newly painted swinger. It seems my tourettes is back and unlikely to be cured until work is complete! The wheels are conna be stripped with polished rims and black spokes. The seat unit looks likely to be a Duke 916 monoposto job, painted to match the VGC Kosinski special edition tank and front mudguard that I still have. Engine side cases to go black.
Sounds straightforward, but there's a hideous amount of work painting little brackets, relocating electrics, finding a home for a gel battery and a smaller coolant tank, etc that really slows things down, but the plan is for the old girl to turn a wheel come spring time.
Pics to follow tomorrow when I find my cameras lead!
I then machined 2 x 5mm spacers from PTFE rod to space the top...
