Fabrication finished!

Hey its been a while since ive posted but the project has hit another milestone, all the final brackets and parts that needed to be fabricated are finished.
This includes the foward control mounts and linkages, headlight mount, exhaust mounts. Ill put up some rough pics from my phone and take plenty more when i get it home in 2 days.
Once its home ive gotta paint all the new parts that are bare metal, respray my eletric can, and paint my front guard and tank and wire the headlight up. After that im good to go for rego.

Working the tank from hell...

So ive been putting this off for a while but ive gotta get this bike on the road so today i had a go at patching up my fuel tank. As u may know from earlier posts i got my tank sandblasted and found a hell of alot of damage under the old paint and bog.
So i started off sanding the little bit of surface rust off that had built up and gave the deepest dents and old badge mounts a good fill with some fibre glass bog.
Then i gave the smaller dents some normal bog.























Gave it all a sand and then went over with more bog...














I repeated this step a few times marking the dints with a pencil, filling with bog and sanding over and over and over...















Eventually after alot of sand paper it all started to even out...























Once i was reasonably happy i did one final sand and then sprayed the tank with some primer to show up and imperfections. And gave the problem areas yet another sand. Thats all i had in me for 1 day, it took about 8 hours to get all that done... All the big dints and craters are filled and theres just a few imperfections around the edge of some of the dints, so tomorrow im going to get some primer/filler and paint - sand - paint - sand - repeat untill it all looks good. Ive saved myslelf some cash which is good and i guess now when i look down at my tank when im riding i'll appreciate it a little more.

It Roars!

Heres my bike running all wired up!!!

WIRING!

Ok so todays the day , im getting a bloke who was highly recomended. Phil is doing my wiring today , both engine and accesories. He's been wiring bikes for years and does alot of custom Harleys and i beleive he's done quiet a few xs's aswell. So all going to plan i will be able to fire my bike up for the first time in over a year!!! I'll make a video and pop it up

Sand blasting reveals all... and it's all bad!

This sucks, got my tank and front guard sand blasted, the front guard came out good, only 1 dint.
But the tank is a mess. It looks like its been kicked around a junkyard. I dont know what to do... should i try to repair it... buy another tank?
Only 3 hurdles to go till my bikes finished, paint tank and guard , get bike wired, and rego. couldnt be that hard could it?

Front end build

Soooo this weekend i sorted out the front end of my bike. I'm pretty happy with how everythings turned out , still need to fabricate some mounts for the headlight which really finishes off the the look of the bike. Also front indicators need mounts and im unsure what to do with my mirrors, they clutter the bars a little so i might take them off after rego is done. Im loving the old school grips they are pimp!
They look pretty bright at the moment but when i add the red spark plug leads, fuel lines and pin striping on the tank and guards it should all balance out. My guages sit neatly and it might not look like it but u can read them when your in the saddle. Front brake are plumbed and working. Also i lowered the front end by about an inch by sliding the fork tubes up the triple tree. I was looking at them and i think you could cut the top off to make it flush with the triple tree for a smoother look. But once thats done theres no turning back so i will leave it the way it is untill ive ridden it a bit to see if anything scrapes while cornering. So yeah its ready to get wired, then i have to some minor motor work like changing the clutch plates and installing a new electric starter gear and oil filter/air cooler assembly, and then i'll fire the beast up for the first time. I'll be sure to get that on video!!!

Headers and Carbs

I installed my 1.75" Stainless steel headers today, they look so cool and are slighty fatter than the 1.5" standard headers. I will be adding some more pipe to the end at a later date. Also i attached my 2 Mikuni slide carbs, better quality and less maintenance than the standard diaphragm ones. All looks good and really beefs up the appearance of the motor.