Project - El Diablo

[wasp4banger]

Good to see the project well on its way.

With the swinging arm .......painting onto ally will probably need a special primer.

[savage sausage]

Originally Posted by jilljoy

the forks look fantastic

Cheers mate.

[savage sausage]

Originally Posted by wasp4banger

Good to see the project well on its way.

With the swinging arm .......painting onto ally will probably need a special primer.

Yep it's steadily getting there not as fast as I had hoped due to cashflow but it'll be ready to roll in 2012.

'm still pondering about the swingarm......Polish it ? Paint it with rubberised black paint??

[Cruiser]

Just a FYI,, I dont think the epoxy paint needs any primer to go onto the alum.. used it on magnesium and alum engine sidecovers with no primer with 100% good results.. the one time I had primer under it didnt work.. I may be redoing my 97 this year as I tried to sell it locally but its worth more than a couple buck and I'm not just going to give it away.. May do a mini restore like your doing to do light trail work with it..

[BazzabikesMK]

Originally Posted by savage sausage

Yep it's steadily getting there not as fast as I had hoped due to cashflow but it'll be ready to roll in 2012.

'm still pondering about the swingarm......Polish it ? Paint it with rubberised black paint??

I would polish it - that way it will never chip off, or get too scuffed (if it does you can just polish it out again)

Should look great against the black frame - my '06 has black frame and polished swingarm and it's so easy to keep clean (not that I get it dirty enough lately !!!)

Keep the pix coming - lots of dark cold British nghts to spend in the garage before the spring !!

[savage sausage]

Well as you can all see the project has stopped for the past few months due to christmas and other stuff, but I am awaiting the bearings to be pressed into my swingarm (this week) and then I can start playing again....But its bloody freezing in my garage.

If anyone has a few 3mm 1/8 carbide burrs they want to lend me to clean up the ports then I'd be very grateful.

I'll post up some pics soon once I get the swingarm back and either polish it or paint it black.

[savage sausage]

Here is the awful rough standard finish before

[savage sausage]

Here is the finished article not bad for a 1st attempt I still need to polish them up, I also took the nasty finish off the powervalve areas so it should in theory be harder for that nasty carbon build up to attach itself now.

all i needed was a few cans and some tunes

As you can see in the 1st set of pictures there was a line which was like a lip which i have removed, i tried my best with the transfer windows and boost port.

[HenrikSchmidt]

wow.. Good job on the ports, that bike is gonna be so nice when you are done with it. is it a balanced engine on that year?

[savage sausage]

Originally Posted by HenrikSchmidt

wow.. Good job on the ports, that bike is gonna be so nice when you are done with it. is it a balanced engine on that year?

Thanks Im no professional porter I hope it will make a small difference, if it doesn't then it doesn't but I had fun doing it.

Yes it is the counterbalanced engine everyone is raving about....this is my first gasser so I have no idea...I didn't even ride it when I bought it cos the suspension was finished....but like all things the best things come to those who wait.

Im just waiting for the new supension linkage bearings to be pressed in now and then I really can start reassembly , Im hoping for may/june time to have it finished.