'78 KZ1000 makeover

Man, I wanna know what epoxy resin you used Josh, because my stuff is pretty mild. Its the polyester stuff that kills me. I didn't want to fight with demolding this little panel after it was fully cured, so I stripped it out while it was still green.

Note: any of the pearls or glow in the dark powder doesn't work well in carbon laminates.

I started with West Systems, and ended up with some sort of 2:1 epoxy that was locally available.

I prefer the 2:1 and 3:1 epoxies over West Systems 5:1 products as they are more tolerant of minor mix ratio errors, are cheaper, and are water clear. I'm not a fan of West Systems products...mostly their pricing though :whistle:

West Systems is ridiculously expensive. As a matter of fact everything in West Marine is ridiculously expensive.

I think it was just the quantities involved and the fact that I was working in the bottom of my boat. The vapors seemed to hang around in there. I was replacing the whole floor, so I used about two gallons of epoxy in all.

Could be worse! Could be better too though. I can live with it. Tomorrow I will get it mounted, as well as make another flat carbon panel for the other side to mount the reg/rec unit. Perhaps I should make a set of sidecovers tomorrow too.....I need a clean, usable set for mocking up

leon

Just for you Leon :kiss:

porchev914 wrote: Just for you Leon :kiss:

nice!!

wheres the tube adapters? :huh:

leon

They came from different sources; The tube adapters are scheduled to arrive Wednesday How you feelin' Leon?

still crappy but better,
than nothing.



leon

man i had a pair of that type hanging next to that M pipe...yours for taking already powder coated green and polished hangers....did you see em...i got for 10 e-bay and they are gathering dust 3 yrs now

porchev914 wrote: Looks good Leon, just about ready to ski behind I got my passenger peg brackets in today :woohoo: From an '08 ZX10R:

9.5" distance from centerline between the mounts to the peg. 5" offset from the mounting face. I'll put the seat on this weekend and have the little woman see where they feel the most comfortable, then get to work on the mounts

looking good....

like those links...


mine failed again...tarrozi aircraft linkage coupler has now failed twice...once riding months back to go see the guy with the ELR... and once trying to find neutral to leave for work in the dark this morning..both time the first shift try feels like a thing is loose but still together, then rubbery shifts and no shifting..scary...then a full fail and full break...wich drops the female coupler rod ,still attached to the foot peg mount to the ground...once while riding and once in the dark trying to leave for work and it bound the kickstand and i had to do the hokey pokey to get my stand down and could have ruined gregs paint......i had bought two from fast from the past "SP" good thing..down to my last one..not too bad but two and shipping sucks twice a year...for one failing..pics to come.....it is the male thread that goes into the little chicken drumstick snub/shortened shift arm with the 10 mm bolt, that shifts the spline...i have had other rear sets act up here and normal foot shit levers can act ( at that torqued area) up when ridden full tilt for months