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Gundam's 09 Track build

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The beginning

Well I've been a member for a while I figured it's about time I made a progress thread... So I can be as cool as everyone else... My god the smell of cat shit ruins this moment for me.

It all began in 2010, a bit of back story.... Long story short my engagement went to pots she moved across country and I was depressed & I was faced with a choice become a drug addict or an adrenaline junkie...
I figured Motorcycles would be cheaper than a 8 ball of coke a week... I was wrong.

I spent many years in The Game.. In a way I was like a drug dealer instead of slinging rocks I slinged movie props. I made a few pretty penny's and had some sweet swag. I decided I needed a change. High end movie props are like politics if you are in the wrong party you are screwed and bitter rivalry's last years. If someone blacklisted you it effected who would do business with you.

I wanted out, I needed a more positive hobby.. Some how I wound up back at my first love Motorcycles than boobies. Growing up poor the dream of being a racer was Impossible HELL a decent lunch was a stretch so I gave up on that at the age of 13.

Now as an adult in arrested development I was able to change this. So I went to the bank they told me no on a loan I couldn't afford a motorcycle..
I looked the lady in the eye and said fine I'll pay in cash all at once.

I sold one of my most beloved works my 1979 Darth vader ANH Replica suit with parts cast from movie molds or total sourced real world pieces 5 years of research and my life went into this suit.:nono I still miss it, but all it did was collect dust on a display.


I walk into the dealership and ask them between the 1098, 848, R1 & R6 which one am I least likely to die on? The owner said "The R6" So I took it. I liked it the most anyway for some reason.
The ladies love cowboy boots


I was told motorcycles are chick magnets... The man who said this is a liar I had two GF's dump me back to back over the bike. :laugh
 
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#40 ·
Yeah definitely plan on bringing out the DSLR next year. The GoPro can only do so much. I think that'll be a good spot to post up with the tripod and get pictures of people going by.

That the dude with the 848 Hayden you said was destroying his tires up there? At least he's got talent to back up the bike he's on.
 
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#45 ·
Got the new sator from sergioandres fast as hell :cheers


immediately started hassling MElK man and chief.

After checking the battery it only gets to 13.8V or 13.9V
while the bike is at 5k. Instead of 14.v

It's come down to two possibility ether my OEM battery is going to pots (it's been in since 09)
or the Sator is on it's way out.... (granted I stabbed it to death in the study with the dremel.) * a Clue Joke*

Tomorrow I am going to check the sator on the bike with the multimeter as per Melk man's suggestion.

note to others get a multimeter you can understand easy, this thing took me a ****ing hour to rap my head around!:lmao
 
#46 · (Edited)
It was one of those days. The hottie I was hitting on got engaged I think she did it to get away from me... Silly rabbit trixs are for kids. Lap top ate it hard.... Damn shame it had Photoshop CS5....My meme making career is over. To top it all off I ran out of cheep booze.

Popped on the undamaged Sator strangely enough still pulling a 13.7 13.8 at the battery.
Eh **** it, getting those bolts out now would be more trouble than they are worth.





That Red clashes like a mother bitch.

The Bauce Racing ECU flash Unlike bluerebel I don't choose my words wisely or explain things well, due...to being pretty "Tore up" as they say in the Ghetto.
I am like the poor mans Mark Twain or Hunter S. Thompson.

This Flash turns the R6 into a totally new beast, Since I got a taste of the BMWs raw power I wasn't to surprised with the changes in the R6. But that is not to say they were not welcome. Truly a "Game changer" as far as shifting, throttle bliping, It's just right.

I now enter a turn like BAM! instead of "Don't you dare back fire you dirty bitch"

The way it accelerates now is also pretty impressive. Best mod next to tires.:fact I now understand what everyone is raving about. The only thing I can say that I dislike about it is the bike running a little rich, but long as its not on in a closed space it isn't much of an issue.
 
#48 ·
there is still a little swag left to be had. Import fender and rear tire hugger from Japan for that GP look. :fact
 
#51 ·
Black Friday that time of year when people fight for door buster deals & I say snug in my bed with visions of cheap hookers dancing in my head.

You ever Have a "Man Idea" That's where you think of something a woman would say "No that's a bad Idea!" Well I'm single so I don't have a voice of reason.... Today I decide brake cleaner can get this stain off the floor! It worked! Than I got high as a kite from the smell & blacked out.

The door bell rang sometime later it was around 12PM I blacked out at around 8AM. So it was more like a power nap.

The postman left me some Nice bits from Bauceracing yet again. I'm pissing away money like I have it.

Stalbus very nice.


Before


Middle




Finished yes I put the cap on I just didn't snap a pick


Tomorrow the bike gets put away for the next few miserable months.
 
#53 ·
mine was long over due for a change :laugh
 
#60 ·
Man I've had a shit week, Model ex contacted me to be a bitch, The girl I was creeping on turns out to be gay, But she said I have a shot if I grow some tits.:eek5
She graciously informed me I could keep my penis.... But i'm sure after hormone therapy it would be like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
Well at least I know I could be a pretty tranny if I tried in the eyes of this lesbian. Get Charlie Sheen on the phone because I am winning!


To finish off my fantastic week I think I caught bird flu.:dunce:
IDK about anyone else, But I have had full blown hallucinations! Waking up and seeing a Bobcat in my bed I wanted to scream, but my throat was so sore it sounded more like Micheal Jackson crying for help.

Later that night I went to brush my teeth and saw a ****ing totem pole in my bathroom. Ether I was tripping balls on a whole new level I never dare dream of OR children Dimetapp has more kick than they let on! May have to drag my ass to the Cherokee nation and ask them am I on a Vision quest? or Do I need to go on one? Granted I don't believe in it, but tradition and all.... Also I could use some good news maybe a wolf will show up and tell me the winning lotto numbers?
I'd pack my medicine bag with peyote & a flesh light. :look:


But all Jokes aside I think I did poison myself with nightquil. I know what you are thinking. "How the hell do you do that" Well I did 5 shots of nightquil in an Hour... Later after reading the warning label it said something like.
"Do not take more then 5 times in a 24 hour period seek medical attention blah blah blah."

Anyway enough of my BS Small update exhaust slider.... I think I needed two :nono




I am now off to bed to shiver like a junkie till sun rise.
 
#72 ·
Man I've had a shit week, Model ex contacted me to be a bitch, The girl I was creeping on turns out to be gay, But she said I have a shot if I grow some tits.:eek5
She graciously informed me I could keep my penis.... But i'm sure after hormone therapy it would be like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
Well at least I know I could be a pretty tranny if I tried in the eyes of this lesbian. Get Charlie Sheen on the phone because I am winning!


To finish off my fantastic week I think I caught bird flu.:dunce:
IDK about anyone else, But I have had full blown hallucinations! Waking up and seeing a Bobcat in my bed I wanted to scream, but my throat was so sore it sounded more like Micheal Jackson crying for help.

Later that night I went to brush my teeth and saw a ****ing totem pole in my bathroom. Ether I was tripping balls on a whole new level I never dare dream of OR children Dimetapp has more kick than they let on! May have to drag my ass to the Cherokee nation and ask them am I on a Vision quest? or Do I need to go on one? Granted I don't believe in it, but tradition and all.... Also I could use some good news maybe a wolf will show up and tell me the winning lotto numbers?
I'd pack my medicine bag with peyote & a flesh light. :look:


But all Jokes aside I think I did poison myself with nightquil. I know what you are thinking. "How the hell do you do that" Well I did 5 shots of nightquil in an Hour... Later after reading the warning label it said something like.



Anyway enough of my BS Small update exhaust slider.... I think I needed two :nono




I am now off to bed to shiver like a junkie till sun rise.
Yeah........ I'd buy about 10 more of those so they cover the entire pipe :laugh
 
#61 ·
Gross man, take that exhaust slider off. And stop painting things blue, do them black. And cheer up, you're creeping me out (let alone what chicks must think) with all that talk.

But for real: not all motorcycles are cool to women. And, despite what you feel in your dick when riding an R6, sportbikes are definitely in the NOT category. Get an old bobber with some tits painted on the tank or some sort of naked bike with a single round headlight if you want chicks to dig your bike.

Anyways... I'm in to see where this build goes. Pretty jealous of that Termi. Also: just get a tuned ECU and make this thing a track bike already. And then buy a $3500 Harley and make it rad and don't give a **** about anything and you'll start having an awesome life.
 
#62 ·
Gross man, take that exhaust slider off. And stop painting things blue, do them black. And cheer up, you're creeping me out (let alone what chicks must think) with all that talk.

But for real: not all motorcycles are cool to women. And, despite what you feel in your dick when riding an R6, sportbikes are definitely in the NOT category. Get an old bobber with some tits painted on the tank or some sort of naked bike with a single round headlight if you want chicks to dig your bike.

Anyways... I'm in to see where this build goes. Pretty jealous of that Termi. Also: just get a tuned ECU and make this thing a track bike already. And then buy a $3500 Harley and make it rad and don't give a **** about anything and you'll start having an awesome life.
That could work... :look:

:laugh

+1 on full track brutha... Fcuk the streets...
 
#64 ·
Hit the track a few times... The streets will lose all of it's appeal...

Going to the track once a month trumps a months worth of riding... You'll see once you get out on the track. :fact

Track riding is a whole different high... :laugh

Too much fun!

:cheers
 
#68 ·
Hit the track a few times... The streets will lose all of it's appeal...

Going to the track once a month trumps a months worth of riding... You'll see once you get out on the track. :fact

Track riding is a whole different high... :laugh

Too much fun!

:cheers
Also, start riding the R6 at the track and you'll feel something in your dick, guaranteed.

This bike sucks on the street (seriously). Get an ECU and get out to the track. You'll enjoy a V twin or something easy and torque and fairly comfortable on the street once you cane the shit out of a track-ready R6.
:fact:fact
That is all
 
#65 ·
Also, those exhaust sliders def do their job quite well! I highsided the bike onto the right side and ths Akra was completely saved. Only thing that happened was a dent on the inside against the swingarm, otherwise it looks exactly the same... I will say, for those high/growler type exhausts I'd prob run two sliders... Front and rear of the can. That front where the pipe meets the can is going to be your major impact area if you do lay it down...

:cheers
 
#66 ·
I tucked my exhaust down low so I guess I don't worry about that too much, though i do kinda want a high mount. I dunno, maybe I'm more vain that either of you but I'd take a mangled exhaust over a weird ugly exhaust slider. Haha.

I guess I thought you painted that decal thing on your swingarm. And I was referring to you saying you'd paint the woodcraft slider blue (from red).
 
#67 ·
Also, start riding the R6 at the track and you'll feel something in your dick, guaranteed.

This bike sucks on the street (seriously). Get an ECU and get out to the track. You'll enjoy a V twin or something easy and torque and fairly comfortable on the street once you cane the shit out of a track-ready R6.
 
#71 ·
Well there are a few schools of thought regarding the sliders. I personally have the small Woodcraft ones that barely protrude from the body. They do NOTHING to save your plastics, but they do make bent bars and levers less likely, as well as mangled exhausts. The big sliders or the "no-cut" bullshit people use are (in my opinion) very bad. They usually dig in while the bike slides off track and start flipping it end over end. Yard sale style, pieces flying off it as it tumbles. And the "no-cut" ones just bend that dumb bracket or shear off.

So that's that. But anyway a mangled exhaust can doesn't affect anything other than appearance. And to me, that potentially busted appearance would be better than the always-ugly sliders. If you crash hard enough to bend pipes, sliders aren't going to be saving anything.

Oh, and for real... If you're worried about potentially scratching a nice new Termi because it cost you a lot, you'll probably have been better with some GYTR or other lower-end exhaust so you could have used the money elsewhere (and you won't give a f**k when it crashes). Not trying to be a Negative Nancy, I'm just really trying to let you floss that awesome exhaust. Exhaust sliders are the opposite of that MotoGP-look you're going for (a blue and matte grey 50th anni livery would be awesome). Along those lines (aesthetics), I also want to make all those sliders and swingarm pieces black. The bodywork on race bikes is painted. The mechanicals and details are raw, black, etc. No color-matching here.

My $.02, don't take it the wrong way.
 
#74 ·
Small updated: Used ETI fuel cel






They could use a bit of TLC, some bolts so I can attach them to my tank & a repaint.:flex:

If anyone needs me I will be outside doing this....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49D42-12Lj4
 
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#78 · (Edited)
Instead of replying to text messages from vapid party girls. I decided to spend time on the bike. By DIY'ing my own paint on the ETI sliders save myself 75+ dollars to have it done at a shop.

The right side appears to have been in a crash... Oh well explains the deal.


After hours of sanding I am now close to being ready for paint.:eek5 Almost as good as new! :flex:
 
#83 ·
Only you Chazz... I watched that video just shaking my head and saying to myself, "Of course Chazz would make this video"

The Fuel Cel looks good! Very impressed with how well you did that. Bet you're glad you saved the money and not have Mike do it all.

Is he painting it, or are you just gonna do the whole thing?

He's got my tank right now, and he's powdercoating my Lightech Quick Release to match the tank color.
 
#87 ·
Well of course it would be me, I'm the only thing fun in this town. :fact :laugh

Yeah, I gotta admit it came out way better than I imagined it would, but I guess it's no different than painting a FibgerGlass Vader lid. I had all the stuff just laying around in my back room. Saving cash left and right I do need to pick up some glossy black, Don't want to risk using a rustoleum paint with a duplicolor clear coat.

I think I'll finish the job actually. All it needs now is a paint job. Just the glossy black paint Job from KazyKid is 75 bucks I doubt that includes clear coat.

LOL, good stuff! 70 degrees today in Phoenix!
you lucky bastard

:laugh
 
#85 · (Edited)
Funny when I saw this picture I thought, Need to text kyle and hit the arcade. Make a new video "off season riding in upstate NY" :laugh

BTW Billy Beer of he erotics is going to track next season, I think he owns an MX store. So he maybe kicking it with us. is GF is a killer blonde hair dresser with hot friends, could end up with umbrella girls :fact
 
#89 · (Edited)
The slow process of painting & trying to color match OEM paint. It also has the slight metallic flaking found in OEM black, but it's a slightly duller in comparison.




Before:

After:
May also do one more wet sand at 800, 1000,1500,2000 before clear coat.




7:07AM update:
put in a few more hours and I am damn close to finishing these bitches!


one more step and these will look like black glass!
 
#90 ·
I may touch up the gloss coat one more time.




 
#94 ·
Came damn close to how I wanted them, but I ran out of black paint. So it cut my process in half....Then I got lazy and half assed the gloss. But over all I saved some serious cash doing it myself.

Looks good bro.
:flex:
Chazz,
I'll be videoing your bike this year with this guy that just came in the mail today ;)

Make sure you get my crash on film. :laugh now give me your old GP:sing
 
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