I haven’t posted on here for a while. I acquired a 2004 RSVR which was garaged for well over 18 months. It is to be my new track day bike, with a view to racing next season.
So time to start stripping it.
My mate Iain, stripped out the Data tool & started hacking the sub frame to fit the new seat unit…
Time to make up some templates for the Carbon Fibre.
OMG… I have just realised the rear shock spring isn’t black. Iain came in on Saturday with a bottle of Muck-Off & clean up my bike :jump
It’s Shineeeeeeeee
which will also carry the ECU.
The sheet was attached roughly & trimmed slightly over sized. It is easy to take off more but a nightmare to try and add.
A cut was made with a grinder so that the carbon could be lap jointed.
The next thing myself & Iain (the Baldy) done was to warm up the CF with the heat gun, gently & slowly, ensuring that the CF did get to hot. Start shaping the CF around the outside of the seat unit, this will give you a rough shape. We then used making tape to hold the CF in shape, using the heat gun to warm up where cooling has taken place. Allow the CF to cool, I use a panel beaters dolly and gently smooth over. This effectively cools down the CF quicker & becomes ridged.
Take note how the piece up toward the front is under the seat tray.
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Now the CF has cooled, its is more ridged. I start trimming back the excess material but leaving enough to over-lap inside the seat unit. I have done the tray so that the seat unit will slide over the tray from the rear. The slight tension in the tray will pull the seat unit and I could get away with using no fixings between the tray & seat unit.
Once we had got the shape right & both seat unit & tray were a good fit. I removed the seat unit & place a square sheet of CF in the tray & applied the resin. This is to strengthen the tray & it it is now possible to mount the ECU.
Recently…
Finally… I have been able to make a start on the paint work. Got the paint done on the seat unit in the Team Phoenix Racing colours which I am still designing.
Wow that paint is looking great! Are you just going to use that stick-on seat pad stuff over that?
Yes mate… A sticky foam seat pad is the way forward I’m told. 
Very recently… Got a bit more done. Sprayed in my logo of the Raptors head on the head fairing.
Kit is back on. Now I have started the temporary line-out & what a ball ache it has been so far. This now the 5th attempt and now I am relatively happy with it, so I now need to start the check-lines. The white is primer.
Tuesday 27th July 2010. Got a bit more done today. Got the decals from STG Graphix, so stuck them on. Lined out & sprayed the tank and just have to paint the silver pin stripes.
Wednesday morning. This is the completed colour scheme, apart from the wheels & a couple more decals, which are in the process of being completed. Then is strip down yet again & Lacquer.
The paint work is complete inc. the lacquer. I have refitted the kit this morning and took it outdoors to get a few pic’s. I am very critical of all my work & not really one for blowing my own trumpet but on this occasion I am going to. I have been doing this stuff for many years but this one just blew me away when the clouds cleared & the sun lit up the paint work. The gold pearl in the black just jumped out, the silver just sparkled. As for the fluro yellow/green… I feel snow blind.
I made a few minor adjustments to the paint work before lacquer. I faded black into the fluro on the seat unit, I extended the front number board as it was to small for the numbers I want. I also added a little colour to the Raptor’s eyes, then went in with the airbrush to shadow the head.
These are now officially the colours for Team Phoenix Racing and will soon replace the paint work I have done on this TZ250.
Fantastic work.
Thanks Fella.
Sat 31st July 2010. Myself & Iain, got on with the pipes today. Took the originals & done some chopping & changing & made them stubby. There was a great deal of messing around inside the can to get the dB killer to sit correctly & the wadding was causing all sorts of feckin’ problems but we got there in the end.
Update: Done a noise test today. The cans are a little over regulations but thankfully Matt Layt is popping in to pick up his kits, for this weekends BSB. He has offered to knock up some dB killers… Removable
nice work!!
Looks amazing, i bet she sounds awesome, any idea what db its kicking out?
Awesome work mate 
We tested it this evening. I got 104dB @ 6000rpm on an A weighted noise reading.
Awesome work Steve, liking that a lot!!
Wow that is a really great looking bike! Love the photo stream and seeing it being “born” per say.
i saw that tzr in streetfighters mag, very very good.
That is one stunning looking bike, great thread by the way, been nice to see how it has come along.
