2001s plastics please

[GSXR Carlos]

Hi all,

still in need of mint left hand side front upper fairing YC2 (Candy Grand Blue)

mine got bashed and then poorly spray painted :roll: :roll:

Thanks :wink:

[GSXR Carlos]

bump

[Saint Matt]

Gutted, I got one for free! I have the old one though, I'm going to try and spray it since it will just get chucked out anyway, if it goes well I'l give you a shout.

[GSXR Carlos]

interested, your dad mentioned something about crash bungs :oops:

[Saint Matt]

Yeah :( Quite badly rashed but we will see how it turns out :)

http://www.bikepics.com/pics/pics/suzuki-sv650s-99-bikepics-480789.jpg

[GSXR Carlos]

ouch, did you crack it?

[Saint Matt]

No oddly, it didn't crack! The crash snapped my bar end of and also snapped the rearsets and pillion footrest bracket, but didn't crack the fairing!

[GSXR Carlos]

i'd defo be interested then :wink:

[Saint Matt]

By the way, I am most likely going to **** it up quite badly, as I haven't done anything like it before, never used filler, or sprayed metallic colours, so don't get your hopes up :P

[Saint Matt]

Just seen this (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SUZUKI-SV650-SV-650-L-H-TOP-FAIRING-PANEL_W0QQitemZ8038259005QQcategoryZ10534QQrdZ1QQc mdZViewItem) on ebay.

[northwind]

Filler's easy enough, if you b***s it up you can just do it again. Don't stir it when you mix it (like a cocktail) squash and knead it (like dough) and you'll get less air bubbles (I used to always do it wrong, the difference is huge...) Don't put on loads either or you'll hate sanding it back (plus, you're more likely to screw up if you have to sand off a load- you're likely to get too slapdash with the sanding and take it too far.

Also, for some reason I found I couldn't judge the shape right till it had paint on... So before you decide it's perfect, try putting a quick coat of primer on to see how it catches the light.

Do you have a power sander?

And remember, don't sand back metallics!

[Saint Matt]

I do have a power snader, but I won't use it! I think I will be spraying it black, so as to minimise effort when painting it.

[northwind]

UUUUUSE the power sander! Not for final work, but for shaping. Unless it's a massive belt job... Mouse sanders are the nuts for fixing fairings, take all the grunt work out of it and mean you cna realistically use a pretty fine grade to do your shaping.