Seat cowl - Page 3

I am FINISH!!!!!!!
Here it is, after hours of breathing in dust and fumes! So far I have 4 layers of clear coat on it. I'm going to put it on the bike in a day or so when the clear coat completely hardens! It turned out all right. If you have an extra seat it will be twice as easy, especially for the mounts! Anyways I will post a couple of pic's when I put it on the bike. If anyone tries this and need some pointers give me a shout!


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I'll post some pic's of it on the bike tomorrow.


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Great work, can you take a picutre of the under side? So the fiberglass encompasses the styrofoam or did you just use the stryofoam as a mold and discarded it?

Dude you need to invest in a digital camera.....

great job, arkas. i know you'll enjoy it even more, knowing the work you put into it and made it yourself. i'm actually starting a similar project -- using a spare seat i bought to make a replacement cowl. think i'll take some pictures too and track the progress.

can't wait to see your pics of it on the bike.

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ORIGINAL: Calkidd

Great work, can you take a picture of the under side? So the fiberglass encompasses the Styrofoam or did you just use the styrofoam as a mold and discarded it?

Dude you need to invest in a digital camera.....

See page two for an under side picture. Yes I left the styro-foam inside the cowl. I did this for one reason, it provides support just in case some retard decides to lean on it thus the styro-foam will overall strengthen it!

That looks really tasty, nice work!!

looks bad ass man.

that looks amazing dude, do you have any plans of making them for sale? i'd totally buy one

Very nicely done.

So was it worth doing it yourself? Or would you recommend just buying one?

dude thats phat ive done fiberglassing on RVs before so im gonna try and do this soon nice work man

Wow. You the man. I will take one in factory silver. Put it on my tab.

Mad skillz looks good man nice job.

did you get it on the bike yet?

hmmmmmmm careful you might penetrate the cowl when you go to hump the sexiness

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ORIGINAL: sup_uni

did you get it on the bike yet?

Yep.....I had it on but I have to redo the mount that locks onto the bike. The material that I used was to soft and kept bending every time I put it on. I still have some minor adjustments to do but besides that it looks pretty good. I just applied another layer of clear coat so I am going to have to wait a couple of day to let it completely harden. I'll post some pics of it mounted once I am done.

Just reading this post..............Great work on the cowl. I've got no skills, so I shelled out $180.00 to the parts department for a factory cowl.

Still fine tuning but here's some pic's of it mounted.


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Looks really good, I'm impressed you have some talent. About how much $$$ do you have in it now thats its finished?

-Jesse-

About $70 CDN

Ok guys, I'm takin my stab at this... got a second pass. seat from blueblurr on 600rr.net for 35 shipped, not too bad if you ask me... Gonna hit it with bondo and start shaping tomorrow, and then either fiberglass, kevlar, or c/f over that... basically whatever I can get my hands on... I don't think I'm going to paint it to match the factory, the paint for my RR is like 100 a pint and I need a base and a top coat cause it's a pearl... so that's 200 in paint alone... Anyway, we'll see how it turns out. keep you guys updated.

Thats awesome sodamninsane, your going to have a blast doing this project. Make sure you keep us updated with your progress.
Have fun

1st day... 2 hours of bondo... tomorrow is sanding...

Might want to use what they call a "cheese grater" to get the rough edges down.

I wonder how bondo will work versus the dense styrofoam especially as thick as the bondo is. Is there probability it will crack being so thick or are you going to wrap it in fiberglass?

I'm just using it as a mold... I was going to just lay fiberglass over it essentially making it part of the seat cowl, but it's so freakin heavy and I had to put so much on to build it up that I'm just going to primer it and use it as a mold, pop the fiberglass shell off of it and then resin or plastic weld the shell to the plastic base... haven't quite decided which yet... I know resin doesn't stick to plastic so I might drill some holes in the base to all the resin to soak in.