Carnesd

I'm about to embark on the journey of painting my zx6r and was wondering if anyone knew any good places online to get some decent paint from. I'm thinking i wanna go with a black or a black variation. This will be my first time actually painting something without spray paint so I'm gonna try and make it right the first time. Anyone have suggestions on painting fairings, Ive got a spray booth and all the equipment I need but just need advise on actual spraying and sanding and clearcoat.

Tough-guy

Your best bet it to get it media blasted, take it home a and use a prepping solvent on it then spry it. A good primer/surfacer is the key, and keep the area as clean and dust free as possible. Also make sure you use the proper temp reducer for the climate you are going to be spraying it in. Good luck.

t_cel_t

10 coats of rustoleum, then buff.

Carnesd

anyone know if theres a better way than sanding to get off the gel coat on the fairings, i got all the stickers and everything off but it seems like its gonna be a pain in the *** to sand.

88dx

Let scottsi ride it im sure after a few lay downs in the parking lot their wont be any gel coat left :1

Bizzar

I'm doing my 88 Tecate4 right now. Kawi green from http://www.color-rite.com/ I used a portable sand blaster and had at it. First pick up some air craft stripper and get as much of the old paint off. Its a mess, burns like hell if the wind blows the wrong way haha. The portable sand blaster was a bitch but the frame wont fit in my regular sand blaster.

NVME

In addition to what has been said, bikes have lots of curves. Make sure you get all the angles. Otherwise you will look like a tool rolling around with primer showing through.

I painted this for a friend at my house when I lived in AZ:

RotaryGeek

My advise is read up a lot. The nice thing about paint is that if you ---- it up, you can take it off and try again. I still read the class book from my paint and body class (only made it about a month into the class lol) and it has a ---- load of good information.

Carnesd

thanks for all the info guys. Another thing i'm tryin to do is recover the seats. I ordered some vinyl of the web and stuff looks great, but I cant get the ---- to staple all the way through into the plastic seat. I tried an old heavy duty stapler from my job and then went out and bought one from home depot but still cant' get it to staple into the hard plastic. Anyone know of some special type of staples to use or somethin? I bought the best lookin ones at home depot but they just aren't workin.

RotaryGeek

try calling an upholstery shop. they should know.