not sure if anyone on here would be into this kind of project but i said i'd fire it up anyway, this is a project me, my dad and brother took on about a year and a half ago its my brothers bike and we said that we would give it a quick clean up lol, im going to copy it from another site i have this on so here goes
28-03-2011
howdy all, just thought i'd share the latest project we have taken on, my brothers vfr 400
so we (me, my dad and the brother) have talked about doing this for some time as it has been just lying up and not used, so on my usual sunday visit to my mam ands dads i found my dad had started without us haha i know it would happen and in no time he had the poor bike in bits and sadly as i wanted to take as many pics of the process as i could i missed out on the dismantling, but as you will all see i made up for it with the pics that are coming
first of all we have the parts been all cleaned of any oils and what not that will get in the way of the painting process, here is the frame:
Befor:
After:
Next up is the swing arm
Before:
After:
all the rest of the bits like the rear frame and headlight brackets went off for sand blasting as ther was a small bit of rust, after all the bits and bobs came back it was time for me to step in and take over the painting end of it, so far i have finished the frame so here it is
we are going with a matt black for all the frame work and swing arm
il be updating this as we get more done so watch this space
29-03-2011
update time and its a big one so here we go
just finished uploading a load of pics forgot i took that many
im going to start off with the rest of the frame work and swing arm each part you will see it in its raw state then primed up and lastly all painted so enjoy
and just some more pics of them for the hell of it
so with all them bits done my dad got cracking on putting it all back together under strict instructions not to put a mark on anything and i have to say he is doing a very good job at it lol and here comes the pics
28-03-2011
howdy all, just thought i'd share the latest project we have taken on, my brothers vfr 400
so we (me, my dad and the brother) have talked about doing this for some time as it has been just lying up and not used, so on my usual sunday visit to my mam ands dads i found my dad had started without us haha i know it would happen and in no time he had the poor bike in bits and sadly as i wanted to take as many pics of the process as i could i missed out on the dismantling, but as you will all see i made up for it with the pics that are coming
first of all we have the parts been all cleaned of any oils and what not that will get in the way of the painting process, here is the frame:
Befor:
After:
Next up is the swing arm
Before:
After:
all the rest of the bits like the rear frame and headlight brackets went off for sand blasting as ther was a small bit of rust, after all the bits and bobs came back it was time for me to step in and take over the painting end of it, so far i have finished the frame so here it is
we are going with a matt black for all the frame work and swing arm
il be updating this as we get more done so watch this space
29-03-2011
update time and its a big one so here we go
just finished uploading a load of pics forgot i took that many
im going to start off with the rest of the frame work and swing arm each part you will see it in its raw state then primed up and lastly all painted so enjoy
and just some more pics of them for the hell of it
so with all them bits done my dad got cracking on putting it all back together under strict instructions not to put a mark on anything and i have to say he is doing a very good job at it lol and here comes the pics
