mates 650 k3 rebuild

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Well the time has come and now the star ship enterprise has came to an end and needs a fresh lease of life. Ive been thinking this over from months and could never come up with a colour or what to do with her but at last things are rolling and im hoping for a quick turn around only time will tell.

before
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l204/shiver85/P1030226.jpg

Took her off the road on Tuesday and stripped all the body work off with the spare tank for painting. In the mean time i got these:D
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l204/shiver85/P1030531.jpg

Tonight i set to work stripping all the bits off ready for powder coating in the morning. heres how it looked .
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Lots of fighting with knackered old bolts so need to get new ones ordered tomorrow as well as making sense of the loom and where to put it lol. I don't have Abba stands of anything like that so made use of a car jack, bag of sharp sand, bricks and an old computer unit:w00t:
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l204/shiver85/P1030542.jpg

Heres my what im left with to meet mv-woodster for the powder coating so lots of rust removal relocating wires and tarting up to do over the next few days.
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l204/shiver85/P1030543.jpg

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you can see the gsxr shock is a little bit longer than the sv one and wider so you need to order a new bolt for the gsxr shock. it dropped in nice and easy havnt got a clue about the clearance with the battery box yet as my sub frame is away so got to wait for that.

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not really got much else done due to waiting on the parts back from powder coating apart from more painting worn bits and polishing so next update should be Wednesday night

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Well today has been fun got even more new bits a dark tint screen spark plugs and medium renthal grips:D

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l204/shiver85/P1030567.jpg

Got a call from mv-woodster that my wheels and parts were back from the coaters and ill be getting them at 8pm. Didnt get back to the garage till 9 so had a mad 2 hour build and heres how far i got.

fresh wheels
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l204/shiver85/P1030568.jpg

more bits painted
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l204/shiver85/P1030569.jpg

Mmmmm powder coat
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l204/shiver85/P1030572.jpg

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there is still loads more to clean paint and get ready but at least its getting back together again

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Tonight was good but slow moving i didn't realise how much i had taken off of the bike until i emptied the jar of screws:w00t: The painter turned up with all the body work and looks the nuts shame the lighting inside doesn't give it justice.

Got to work sorting out my brakes had to fit a banjo pressure sensor for the rear brake light as the old spring one doesnt work on the rear sets it all needs testing and adjusting bu can be done once the build is finished.

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l204/shiver85/P1030574.jpg

the tank was a pain trying to get everything back on it without marking it then once it was on i forgot to flush it out so off it came again i was not impressed. this picture came out well you get a good idea of what the paint looks like in person.

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after what felt like all night i managed to sort out all the headlight loom which now has the h.i.d loom in it aswell and made sense of it to get it all tucked away and neat. got most of the front end back on

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l204/shiver85/P1030579.jpg

will be back to work on her tomorrow once im back from swimming fingers crossed ill get all the front sorted and start on that subframe.

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Well it shows i couldnt think of anything other than the bike i got all of 4 hours sleep:hehe: was back on it at 9am getting on with the loom trying to work out where it all went lol.

Now it was back on the wheels i could get to the header without breaking my back and finished off polishing it

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l204/shiver85/P1030587.jpg

The battery box did need abit of trimming to get the clearance from the piggy bakc of the rear shock but luckily it was just a bit of trim on the front which must shield it from crap. once that was gone it slotted in nicely and doesnt foul the battery or subframe.

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had a little visitor
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heres afew pictures of some steps of the build up until its finished all thats left now is a good clean and wax.

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all done and needs dusting
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l204/shiver85/P1030592.jpg

p.s the mirrors are on order

[maviczap]

Nice Red!
And I really like those wheels, nice gloss black

[DarrenSV650S]

Wow what a turn around. Good job mate :D

I got my subframe powdercoated too, thinking that would be an end to my boots wearing it out. But they've still worn away the powdercoating! :o

So I'd stick some clear plastic to protect it if I were you

[2hys]

wheres its ears!!

[Holdup]

Mmmm, im not sure on the red but if you like it then :thumright:

p.s. can i have your garage please?

[kiggles]

who sprayed your bike? and where you get it done?

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the mirrors are in the post and the paint was do by a friend who sprays cars the colour is from a limited 87-89 golf gti

[warrenhewitt10]

is it bad that i quite like the look of it before it was painted? lol, but yes very nice colour well done

[Richie]

nice job, wheel done :0)

[BBadger]

Does this friend do fairings or was he just helping you out?
Need to find someone good to do the vfr soon.
Also good prices?

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the guy does so bike sjust not very often by trade hes a car sprayer. This paint job was quite pricey due to the type of paint

[Spikenipple]

That paint looks (from what I can see) really similar to the stock paint on my bike. Candy Sonoma Red is the name, colour code YHL.

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the colour code is le3p from a 87-89 limited edition golf gti its like the bandit red aswell but has alot more metal flakes in it

[Jayneflakes]

That is really nice, you must be really pleased with the finish. :D

[7755matt]

looks nice but cant you find anywhere to hide the scottoiler?

[Bri w]

Impressed with the turnround time.