Hope I'm allowed to post this and its in the right place. First bike I ever owned was a 91 ZZR600 so when this cheap one came up for sale locally at the start of the year nostalgia got the better of me and I bought it with the plan to restore it but to paint it my own paint colour keeping its original lines and layout. Apologies for the writing on the bike, the stickers where the work of the previous owner along with the paint scheme. He painted it like that as he didn't want anyone nicking it! How I got it. Bike being stripped. When I got that far I headed off to see my mate who manages a paint shop and we spent 3 hours deciding on the paint. The base paint was decided on. I say base as we then played around with adding pearl and candy mix until we got the colours the way we wanted them. With that out of the way we matched the frame and casing paint.
Frame primed. Rear hanger, casings and trim primed. Frame painted. Parts painted. Oh and all the black bits have been left into another mate to be powder coated.
Having to clean and strip everything is slow work, its the little things like removing paint from the bolt end caps without damaging them that takes care and time. Painted the wheels so in between coats I started to strip the tank, with a scraper! only ever had to do that to paint once before.
So far the rebuild is going without a hitch, weirdly! Even the new stickers that weren't due for another week or so arrived today.
After all the paint scraping is now finished I thought it wise to Barcoat the panels to ensure there is no contamination seepage from the old paint. Next a coat of primer. The coat of primer helped me see all the imperfections left from using the scraper. Stoppers will sort those out.
Update. New tyres bought and fitted. and finally got the grey paint on today. In between the 4 coats I took to the rear lens to see how well I can bring it up. Not sure I can, its badly faded.
the last time i seen that colour of oil it had came out of a gearbox that had chewed 3rd, 4th and 5th synchro's. v,brassy looking.
all part of the resto business. let it settle for a while then stir it up. nasty. but low millage/ short journey stuff will have a bit of emulsification going on.
Update. Bikes painted but I'm not happy with the tank so re-doing it again. In the meantime here's a small teaser. Finished side panel. I noticed when the clocks where off one of the fixing screws plastic attachments was damaged so I took it all apart and fixed it. While I had it all apart I took the opportunity to clean the glass inside. Polished up the road scrapers And finally moved the bike to the clean side of the garage to rebuild it. So far new Thermo fitted, system filled (but not bled yet), front brake bled. Rear for some reason doesn't want to bleed so work in progress on that one.
Well its finally finished. I wasn't happy with the way the clutch was biting so put a new kit in and its driving really sweet as they say.
wow... that's honestly quite a bit better that I had been expecting... Seriously looks factory new... Amazing
