'78 KZ1000 makeover

BTW guys, I heard from non other than JOE last weekend!!!

I know its been painful to watch (Leon), but I did get a little something made last night. One of the things I needed to do before paint was some little tabs for an undertail shield panel. The only thing is, I don't have the panel made yet. So, thats what I did last night I started by using spray adhesive to glue card stock (file folders work awesome, are cheap and plentiful) to the bottom of the subframe, so that I have something flat that follows the contour of the tubes. Then I covered the folders with packaging tape.



Then I laid the the first layer of carbon cloth over the "mould"




I mixed up some resin, coated the first layer of cloth,, then added 3 more layers for a total of 4. It doesn't need to be super strong, just keep the crud out from under the seat and tail. After the last layer it looked like this:


And there you have it, thats how you make a quick and dirty carbon fiber subframe panel.

leon

I like it, can I order one..

Boostable wrote: I like it, can I order one..

It wouldn't be very difficult, but I'm guessing you have a stock frame boostable?

It makes me stiff.

And apparently prickly too Mark :laugh:

And viola! We have a rough cut carbon fiber undertail panel :evil:





forgive the fingerprints, the panel isn't complete yet. I have one more coat of resin to apply

porchev914 wrote:

Boostable wrote: I like it, can I order one..

It wouldn't be very difficult, but I'm guessing you have a stock frame boostable?

Yes sir that is correct...

It's been so long, and my bike is so heavily modified that I can't for the life of me recall what all was in the way on the stock subframe section. I could whip one out, but I'd need a stock assembled bike to see the hows and wheres, and a stock bare frame to use as a template. Fortunately I know a place to find both!

porchev914 wrote: And viola! We have a rough cut carbon fiber undertail panel :evil:


forgive the fingerprints, the panel isn't complete yet. I have one more coat of resin to apply

SAAAWEEET!!!

After another coat of resin. Why does carbon fiber look soooooo damn cool???