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06 GSXR street rebuild w/ race fairings

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Old Aug 13, 2009 | 03:11 PM
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Default 06 GSXR street rebuild w/ race fairings

I had a little get off at Jennigns a long time ago, from what people tell me the bike went air born. I don't remember a damned thing. Anyway it landed on the front end and destroyed everything cosmetic and cracked everything on the left side. I don't know how the headlight itself didn't shatter, but virtually all the connecting structure blew out.
These are cheap ass ebay race fairings that I bought and kinda regret cause the quality is shotty. I first cut holes in the plastics then I made my own headlight housings out of PVC and reinforced it with fiberglass. The bulbs are some ebay projector foglights that I put HIDs for both the high beam and low beam. I achieved a different headlight effect by bending bar inside the "low beam/top light." This made the beam less intense and give it a wider range. The "high beam" I tuned upside down and pointed it slightly down so all the light went upwards.
The first paint job was nothing to wright home about cause I used AutoZone Duplicolor clear coat and I'm used to spraying real clear coat, never again will I cheap out on paint. It ended up with like a satin finish that I didn't want and I dare not wet sand it out cause the clear coat was thin and like water. Like a year later I decided to repaint it again. This is now the 4th repaint of the bike and you can still see the fiberglass imperfections. I still need to buff the paint out. I did it all in my backyard so some shit got in it. I assume the brand name race plastics are better?

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Then repaint next to its old busted face...







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Old Aug 13, 2009 | 03:14 PM
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thats cool i like the repaint it looks much better good job
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Old Aug 13, 2009 | 03:27 PM
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thats fuckin sweet man.
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Old Aug 13, 2009 | 03:30 PM
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looks good man..how much was the new front fairing for those lights?? looks cool
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Old Aug 13, 2009 | 04:26 PM
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Looks good to me
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Old Aug 13, 2009 | 05:00 PM
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i was wondering what happened to you all this time. nice to see you post back about your updates. i like the new headlight setup plus the paint doesnt look to bad at all.

i think we are doing a ride this saturday. hope you can make it.

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Thnx guys, criticism is welcome. I'm not sure if I want to leave it all black or add some red "Suzuki" and GSXR decals.

I'd love to ride, but I seem to always be working the weekends. Starting to piss me off, I think I've worked the last 3 Saturdays and last 2 Sundays and working next weeks too.

Oh and if anyone is wondering about how they light up the road... (both shots are the low, I put the high beam in wrong, I need to adjust it more)


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Old Aug 13, 2009 | 05:43 PM
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and how much?? lol
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Old Aug 13, 2009 | 05:56 PM
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Oh yea sorry, the full fairing set was like 350ish shipped off ebay. Nothing special I had to do a lot of prep work to get them to the where they are now. The holes did all line up though. Would have been fine for normal race plastics cause they would probably see the ground anyway. I originally used the race tail too and just cut out holes for the tail light, like the front to make it street legal. Lining up the two headlight holes was a pain in the ass.

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o ya drilled them yourself..cool cool..looks good man
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