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RE: Seat cowl - 2/27/2006 10:05:57 AM   
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Wow. You the man. I will take one in factory silver. Put it on my tab.

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RE: Seat cowl - 2/27/2006 2:23:26 PM   
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Mad skillz looks good man nice job.

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RE: Seat cowl - 3/2/2006 1:37:01 PM   
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did you get it on the bike yet?

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RE: Seat cowl - 3/2/2006 9:10:37 PM   
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hmmmmmmm careful you might penetrate the cowl when you go to hump the sexiness

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RE: Seat cowl - 3/3/2006 5:01:19 PM   
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quote:

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.

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RE: Seat cowl - 3/3/2006 5:23:59 PM   
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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.

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RE: Seat cowl - 3/3/2006 9:07:40 PM   
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Still fine tuning but here's some pic's of it mounted.


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RE: Seat cowl - 3/3/2006 9:08:47 PM   
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excuse the quality


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RE: Seat cowl - 3/3/2006 11:32:02 PM   
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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?

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RE: Seat cowl - 3/4/2006 12:43:23 AM   
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About $70 CDN

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And so it begins - 3/4/2006 1:37:42 AM   
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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.



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RE: And so it begins - 3/4/2006 12:30:00 PM   
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Thats awesome sodamninsane, your going to have a blast doing this project. Make sure you keep us updated with your progress.
Have fun

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RE: And so it begins - 3/4/2006 8:14:23 PM   
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1st day... 2 hours of bondo... tomorrow is sanding...





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RE: And so it begins - 3/5/2006 4:21:14 AM   
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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?

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RE: And so it begins - 3/5/2006 10:51:43 AM   
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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.

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