Cryptic
11-05-2005, 11:11 AM
Me and my brother tore every piece that could be coated or polished off a 86' Honda VF1000R Interceptor.
The bike was dumped (thanks to a 8 year old girl that doesnt know how to look both ways) so we had a number of scratches on the exhuast and fork. We'll be fixing and painting the fiberglass ferrings that got a bit cracked/scratched to match the outcome of the
This a stock photo of the bike (except for black rims, previous owner painted them white)
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~john/vfr/specs/pics/86-vf1000r.jpg
I found a pic of what that I think is the direction we are going to go with.
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~john/cycle/honda.gif
Much of the stock red is faded to an orange.
The part have been coated with a silver base (little bit of flake) with 2 coats of Translucent Red over the top.
Just a sample ,
http://www.crypticvault.com/albums/86_VF1000R/trans_red_001.sized.jpg (http://www.crypticvault.com/albums/86_VF1000R/trans_red_001.jpg)
This is the fork before hand
http://www.crypticvault.com/albums/86_VF1000R/fork.sized.jpg
I'll have more pics later.
The bike was dumped (thanks to a 8 year old girl that doesnt know how to look both ways) so we had a number of scratches on the exhuast and fork. We'll be fixing and painting the fiberglass ferrings that got a bit cracked/scratched to match the outcome of the
This a stock photo of the bike (except for black rims, previous owner painted them white)
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~john/vfr/specs/pics/86-vf1000r.jpg
I found a pic of what that I think is the direction we are going to go with.
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~john/cycle/honda.gif
Much of the stock red is faded to an orange.
The part have been coated with a silver base (little bit of flake) with 2 coats of Translucent Red over the top.
Just a sample ,
http://www.crypticvault.com/albums/86_VF1000R/trans_red_001.sized.jpg (http://www.crypticvault.com/albums/86_VF1000R/trans_red_001.jpg)
This is the fork before hand
http://www.crypticvault.com/albums/86_VF1000R/fork.sized.jpg
I'll have more pics later.