Sheep 781 Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 Made these for my 1230 EFE but changed them last year for more conventional 4 into 2 and I must admit the new ones are better for low down as Gixer1460 says but the side swept version did look good 2 Quote Link to post
Pudzrx 141 Posted January 15 Author Share Posted January 15 Very nice , better pics needed Puddy Quote Link to post
eddiegsx 218 Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 35 minutes ago, Pudzrx said: Only trouble I find with hammerite is it takes ages to go off , and you have to leave it 24hours for every subsequent coat. I like the halfords satin black myself , goes on lovely. Cheers puddy I know where you're coming from with the drying issues, I've discovered after many resprays that hammerite loves heat, so I give the subject a good hiding with a heat gun and blast it several times after each coat, seems to work perfect. There again we all have our own methods to get there. Black frames look cool on EFE's me thinks. Quote Link to post
Pudzrx 141 Posted January 15 Author Share Posted January 15 (edited) 4 hours ago, eddiegsx said: I know where you're coming from with the drying issues Black frames look cool on EFE's me thinks. You know dat ! Edited January 15 by Pudzrx 1 Quote Link to post
TonyGee 244 Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 6 hours ago, Pudzrx said: Only trouble I find with hammerite is it takes ages to go off , and you have to leave it 24hours for every subsequent coat. I like the halfords satin black myself , goes on lovely. Cheers puddy yeah ive used the Halfords stuff a few times, its pretty good Quote Link to post
Pudzrx 141 Posted January 18 Author Share Posted January 18 (edited) Well , been busy over the weekend, luckily it warmed up , 9 deg c, toasty ! Rubbed down , primed and painted. Put them all back together today with new seals , oil and dust covers. Will refit them once I've sorted the loose fitting secondhand starcycle headers, more to follow on that puddy Edited January 18 by Pudzrx 2 Quote Link to post
Pudzrx 141 Posted January 30 Author Share Posted January 30 Well I've been chipping away at the oil cooler problem, standard one runs right thru the starcycle headers. Found an old cooler in the shed , cut off the bsp fittings and had dash 6 weld ons fitted. Bought a cheap bracket kit on the bay and modded that a bit to fit . Finally bought a very nice oil cooler line kit , just had to spread the 180's a bit to fit. Also bought some fittings for the lines into the block , and put it all together today , worked out very nicely. Puddy 3 Quote Link to post
TonyGee 244 Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 very satisfying when you figure out a problem Quote Link to post
Pudzrx 141 Posted January 30 Author Share Posted January 30 1 minute ago, TonyGee said: very satisfying when you figure out a problem Yeah , just gotta make a bracket for the v&h meg , its actually a srteet meg with a n off set unlike the race ones which are dead straight. But now its all fully on there it actually runs quite nicely behind the brake pedal, more to come on that. Cheers puddy 3 Quote Link to post
Pudzrx 141 Posted February 1 Author Share Posted February 1 Ordered some 70mm horns , the standard ones are touching everything even with the brackets reversed. Put the front wheel back in today , one of the spindle clamp threads is u/s so just gonna get some stainless 60mm cap heads and nuts to get round that problem. So , apart from the meg bracket very little to do to the efe now . Luckily the katana chipped in today with a few little jobs to make up for that tho , lol Fitted wadded baffle , new front brake light switch, and fitted the genuine sharks fins. Puddy Quote Link to post
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