750 cafe racer

Cool stuff. You sorta have that Italian theme going on with the red/white/green thing. :lol:
But good work, none-the-less! Keep posting!!!

-KR

Man you have to finish this bike. For all of us here. This will be one BAD ASS bike. I can't wait to see it. I'm as excited as you are lol. I would love to do something like this, but the whole money issue kinda puts a stopper in it lol.

Thanks for the comments I will continue to post and build. funny you should mention the money thing. I actually have less than 2500 bucks into this thing so far. If I don't count parts that I have bought that I won't be using. I'm gonna finish up the subframe mounts tonite. Gotta go do that now.

Well here it is with the subframe mounted. I have to cut and weld on the other leg but I have get someone else to do that. I'll make some tabs to mount the seat with and have those welded on at the same time. I think this thing is looking sweet right now. And I have seat again so let the vroom vroom noise begin.:laugh:

Ohhhhhhhh, starting to 'gel'!

-KR

I am having such bad withdraws from my bike. I'm dying to stay up late, and work on my bike while slowly drinking a beer or two. Those were the days....... now I'm at college

KZCool wrote:

I am having such bad withdraws from my bike. I'm dying to stay up late, and work on my bike while slowly drinking a beer or two. Those were the days....... now I'm at college

Welcome to my world! :woohoo:

-KR

I'm actually headed back for about a week come thanksgiving. I'm headed straight for the bike. I got work to do on it, and its crying to me in my dreams. I found out how to fix my carbs while iv'e been here and I have to try it as soon as I get there.

Well I have busy stripping my engine. I used glass bead. It worked well but if I had to do it again I would use baking soda. I have spent all week cleaning and I'm still a little worried. But with that said I am witing to get some parts to finish assembling the bottom end. I have however finised painting my clutch cover, oil pan and I smoothed and painted my valve cover. looks pretty good.

VERY NICE!!

Thanks I used Duplicolor high heat gloss black. I hope it holds up. It seems like it is thick. So hopefully its strong.

i think the key is to make sure that it is perfectly clean fist, then try to apply the paint as thin as possible. the thicker it is the easier it chips.
I sandblasted my parts,then washed them with thinner. after painting i found the chipped easy. so i blasted them and started over. as it turned out , the cheap thinner i used to clean them left a film, witch deterred the paints adhesion. the second go round i cleaned the parts with acetone. it worked well.
i used the Dupicolor satin black eng paint.