I recently painted my engine for my bike it looks very nice.I also broke a exhaust collar yesterday

 

So I decided that if I want to have the bike painted by professionals I'll need to save some $$. And I'm not very good at that. So I bought some stuffs today.


And I thought I'd try one of these out too.


I'll see if I have time tomorrow to pull parts and paint again.






Sort of off topic but my dad just bought a 2006 R6 with only 250 miles on the clock this week.


Can you say sexy?

 

Looks good,I just painted my tank and side covers with rustolem blue and clear coat.I put 8 coats of clear on it to protect from fuel spills and scratches hopefully.

 

that new bike your old man got is nice..

 

I know. He'll probably get in some trouble with it soon.

 

Oh im sure

 

So I got some painting done today. About 4 coats of black and 2 generous coats of clear.



Just need to wait for them to cure, then I'll pop them on the bike and get some actually decent pics.

I also should have a 17 tooth front sprocket coming in tomorrow to drop the rpms a little at highway speeds.

 

I had an 06 r6 myself a few years ago and I loved it! Best thing you can do for those things is trash the huge waste of 12 pounds of exhaust underneath it and give it a good pipe that will actually allow it to breath. Pair that with a power commander and a good air filter and you will have a fun bike. Not that they aren't fun in stock form but I just never could figure out what Yamaha was thinking with that exhaust!! I also added a set of Sato adjustable rear sets to mine but I put a set of those on almost every bike I ever owned. I always found myself scraping the ends of factory pegs

 

I had a chance to ride it today, and I gotta say, I had a blast on it. Maybe it's because I'm used to <80 horsepower and a rev limit of 12000. I think my dad was entertaining the idea of putting a turbo on it. We'll see if that ever comes to fruition though.

Back to my project.






It's got some flaws, but for $25 it can't be beat.

 

Looks good!