Week 16:

Well the site has not been updated in awhile due to the fact that we have been busy working with a few people at a time so we either forgot or didnt have enough hands to take pictures. That out of the way, we got alot done up to right now. We finished up all our modifications to the frame and got it prepped and we sent it out to the powdercoaters at PowderTech. We actually took a trip up there and Chris and Ray gave us a tour of the shop and let us watch the entire process of them powdercoating the parts, it was really cool. Also, we got the engine fully reassembled and scotch brite finished as well. We started to take apart the forks to rebuild them and D is actually working on that now as I right this. We dissasembled the rear springs and polished them up and got new white springs that werent all cracked. Now comes the fun part, putting it all back together again with out screwing up the paint and podwercoat on the engine and frame. Also, wiring the bike to will be interesting. But for now we are pretty exicited at how awesome the frame and parts came out!

D sandblasting the frame.

That looks much better than before.

Our steering stop.

Brandan working on polishing the clutch casing.

The mounting surface for some of our electronics to come....

The steering stop again.

This is our parts that are going to be powdercoated at powdertech. They sandblasted everything before we arrived because that took the most time.

That is the powderbooth at PowderTech.

Two guys wheeling our parts in to get started.

Ray showing us how the powdercoating machine works. It was pretty cool, in the hooper they were blowing air through the fine powder and it looked like soup bowling.

Chris starting to put the powder on the frame.

Chris turned off all the lights and used a fog light to make sure he hit every spot.

The parts coated in powder, heading into the oven. They said that right now if we didnt want the color or what not they could just take an air hose and blow all the powder off and start over again.

But once it goes into the oven, its set. The oven melts the powder and when it liquifies it begins to cure and set. Each paint is different, but for ours it only took thirty five minutes of baking.

Hot out of the oven, looking good.

Brendan looking at the parts.

The swing arm with the bronze bushings in.

All the parts back at the shop, ready to start getting rebuilt.

We choose a bit of a textured black powdercoat with just enough gloss to make it stand out.

Frenching in the taillights.

The polished rear shock tubes.

And the spring.

The engine all reassabled, polished, scotchbrited, painted, with all the stainless bolts and everything.

Starting to rebuild the front forks. First part of putting the emulators in was to drill new holes in the dampening rods for oil flow.

The dampening rods with the holes drilled and the emulators on top.