Looks slick!

 

bike looks great man, I finally got mine fixed and running good, now I gotta focus on getting more cash so I can have someone custom fabricate a tail like you did yours. hahaha

 

Altering the can, won't that mess with the bikes performance and fuel settings?

 

Yes, but i have to pull out the carbs and re-set them anyway... so there really isnt a better time. Plus a friend of mine knows a guy who will do a couple dyno runs for $75 to get it close to where it needs to be.

 

small progress report here...

i figured out how to mount the side panels and probably the tail as well.

I picked up some of these from the hardware store. stainless steel bolts!


so i drilled a hole though both the panel and the frame, widened the hole for the insert, and ground a recess so after welding it would be flush:


and after it was welded and ground (kept a sacrificial screw in it to keep crap out of the threads)


the other mounting point was easier, as it was just a tab welded to the frame with once of those nuts welded on the back. and here you have the mounted panel.


it still needs to be fine tuned before it gets copied in CF, but we are getting closer

I also made a template for the undertail


it will be mounted by a couple tabs as well, and will be the easiest part to make in CF (and most likely the first too)

more to come on Saturday
thanks!
~Chris

 

I like the work and your creative fabrication, but I couldn't help to notice some thing in this pic...


I was wondering if you'd get me that '67 GOAT in the background. I'm in LUUUUUV!!!!
(Heavy panting, eyes bulging and mouth drooling)

 

Lol, I'm not the only one that noticed it then I thought I was seeing things again

 

yep.. 67 GTO... it just sits there. I think i have seen the owner drive it maybe... once. He had it professionally restored, but doesnt cover it?!
tell you what.. i'll get you teh address and the location of his spare key.. then i'll let him know when to expect the insurance check!

 

That'll work for me, I've been sporten a chub since I saw it. LOL

 

the last week has been really busy for me, and the work that i have gotten done ha been relatively unnoticeable. I have tweaked alot of the stuff i had already done, primarily the side panels and the tail, but also the undertail and i filled that "hole" in the side of the tail.

I only have a little bit more welding before i can do the finer grinding and bondo work.


fitting alot closer...


the metal is there.. and the bondo will help with some of the "blending"



I am considering making the tail carbon fiber as well... and just using the steel as a mold then cutting it off except for "tabs"

what do you think?
thanks
~Chris