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06 GSXR street rebuild w/ race fairings
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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?
Old paint...
Then repaint next to its old busted face...
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