Hey everyone,

Well here it is, I bought a used 01 F4i as a project and after a month, this is what it looks like. I have decals being made as we speak which will be carbon fiber with a thin silver outline and I also have a CCT on order, (that chain rattle is annoying!)

Thanks to everyone on this forum as I have done alot of searches and found alot of really great answers here.

When I got it...






And how it looks now...







So I dumped about a grand into it between parts & paint and had a ton of fun wrenching on it, (Other then the hangovers! )

Let me know what you think!

 

Looks a lot better man. I just did the same thing to my 02 building it and painting it is half the fun

 

Get those air duct covers painted too.

 

Good job
Did you do the paint yourself?

 

Looking gooooood. Mine is also getting painted black at the moment. What paint u use ?

 

good job..the previous owner ruined that bike with all those stickers

 

Very nice.

 

Very nice. Looks real Good.

 

Love it. Add some reflective silver rim tape so you'll have a chance of being seen at night.
I've always liked rim tape on black bikes. Makes the wheels really stand out.

...and chop that under-tail down!

 

Hey, thanks for the nice words,

I used Dupont jet black basecoat with PPG high solids clear. Me and a buddy painted it, (me doing the grunt work, peeling those horrible stickers, sanding, and what not, the buddy doing the spraying.)

We also had to fab up a fairing mount as the guy that had it before me layed it down and rashed out the left side mount. For that we used a couple big washers along with a piece of tube, and used Kent chemweld 45 to stick it all together.

All in all it came out really good, and I agree, I may need something shiny on there so I have a chance at night lol.