Spraying & Bodywork help??..

[Milky]

Hi, I'm very skint and trying to sort out the sh!t bodywork my new ZXR came with. Never done any proper spraying or fibre-glassing etc before so i'm gonna let a spray shop spray the bits for me.

but.. i've fibre glassed and sanded down the dammaged areas.. still needs a bit more bodyfller to sort out the lumpy areas and a few more layers of primer..

does anyone know of a really cheap but good sprayer in exeter? will they mix the colours and gloss it there.. or do i need to get hold of the paint/gloss etc? will i have to take in the parts that need spraying or can i just give them the whole bike? how much do you think these bits will cost to get painted?... Thanks, Tom.

[ZXR400Lee]

Are you just having it painted green to match?

Also just the front fairing? Best thing to do is whip it off, remove mirrors, and the headlight and drop that off to the bodyshop..

They'll quote you a price, you pay it.. or go else where for a better price.. find someone back street that'll do it alot cheaper than larger body repair places.. you could approach bike shops see who they use.

St Just Bodyworks in St Just, nr. Lands End can paint an entire ZXR400 in the green for £200.. well.. thats what they quoted me about 3 years ago! Instead I painted my whole bike with satin black rattle cans, painted the wheels gold! All for like £100 and a couple weeks of my time!

[deej]

I'd say you'd be looking at a £100 minimum to spray those parts as paints a lot dearer now than I used to be. I'd expect the paint shop to have to buy your colour in as its a old bike and they may not have your colour green in the new types of paint

It will be cheaper for you to remove the plastics yourself as the painter will charge you labour to remove the panels etc

Or alternatively you could you just nick the panels

[Milky]

Or alternatively you could you just nick the panels

ahahaha

[Milky]

i'm wandering whether i should just buy a whole new fairing kit and have the whole bike different. if it's gonna be in the hundreds..i can have all new and painted fairings with all the stickers etc for £280.. :/..seeing ass theres general scuffs and scratches etc over the whole bike.. and none of the fairings actually line up with eachother because the brackets are all bent

[Milky]

oh.. pls a little for postage! http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FOR-KAWASAKI-ZXR- ... 7C294%3A50 ..but then i've gotta find a tank to match it.

[ZXR400Lee]

STREETFIGHTER! Rip off all of the fairings! Set of twin headlights, yoke conversion and MX bars..

[Tomahawk R1]

£150 postage

[ZXR400Lee]

I saw those fairing sets for sale even when I had my ZXR.. I managed to get 'given' a set of genuine blue fairings for a mate.. I sold those on eBay for £250 and they needed loads of work.. make sure you only get genuine ABS Kawasaki plastics, as replicas are crap!

[Funky]

PM simon (billinom8s) he knows a guy who did a top job for him a couple times at a good price.

[deej]

Lee I disagree with you

My mates just bought a set of red n white R1 plastics in from hongkong, came predrilled in the correct places,the graphics are spot on and the paint coplours as good a match as I've seen. The customer service was pretty good too,he was kept upto date with how production and shipping was going so knew excctly when he was going to get them

I've got my eye on a two coloured trackbike and am definetly considering a set of hongkong plastics for it if I get it. Will fit better than the uk stuff I've used previously

[Varcon]

Give it a go yourself, or ask someone who knows how to spray nicely for you

Done a few bikes now, its really quite easy once you get the hang on it. Best to use a paint gun really, although some of the spray cans can do a good job. Done forget to laqure it all after !

[jam]

Not wanting to piss on your cornflakes, but the fibreglass repair you've done to the fairing will not last particularly long. Fibreglass does not adhere well to ABS fairing plastics and will come away. The only way to get a good permanent repair of fairings is to have them plastic welded properly, any cracking should have a small hole drilled at the closed end to stop them spreading further. Try and find someone with the correct kit to do the job, or buy the Wurth ABS plastic repair system and do it yourself for a couple of hundred quid. I have the Wurth system and the ABS rod system, and out of the two the Wurth system is far superior. I've successfully repaired far worse panels than yours, very little is past saving with the right kit and some time.

[ock]

sorry dude but I would have to agree with Jam, I`m a panelbeater so I do it for a living, what you do with cracks is weld them up with a soldering iron then a small amount of filler just to make where you welded flat, you don`t need loads of fibre glass or filler as plastic doesn`t really dent, and if it has you use a hot air gun to push it back out, next you need a plastic primer and then I would use a 2k primer to stop it all moving underneath, might be easyer if you got a good second hand one of fleabay and let the painters prep and paint it, at least if it looks sh*te its up to them to put right

[Blue]

and none of the fairings actually line up with eachother because the brackets are all bent

Might be wrong but you may find that the Hong kong or any other second hand fairings will not come with brackets so you will still have to repaid/replace yours to get the new panels to line up properly