Want to paint bike, but what about value?
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I would honestly love the Repsol Honda fairings on my bike, but I'm really not willing to spend 800+ on a new setup. The only reason I'm thinking about it is my fairings aren't perfect in the first place, and I found a weekend painter guy who said he'd do 3 layers of paint and 3 of clear coat with the fairings removed for 250 + cost of paint. Thats a pretty good deal!
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To be honest I really want to learn HOW to paint. The compressor and gun are cheap and although having a clean booth is important I don't think its critical. Its just the technique that I would have to learn
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yea i talked to him he seems pretty good, i do my own paintjobs but was lazy about repainting my bike, i actually did mine outside in my back yard and it turned out great. the surface for each panel is very small to get any bugs on it and if it does wet sand gets it rigth out. i was thinking of having him redo mine, his work seems pretty good from the picture
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yea i talked to him he seems pretty good, i do my own paintjobs but was lazy about repainting my bike, i actually did mine outside in my back yard and it turned out great. the surface for each panel is very small to get any bugs on it and if it does wet sand gets it rigth out. i was thinking of having him redo mine, his work seems pretty good from the picture
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most deff, do you have a garage or something? if so that would be even better. only problems i ran into was just being outside other then that my compressor and gun did a excellent job, i will probbly be doing mine next weekend, i have bought a bag of pearls and just need to pick up clear coat and white. what color were you looking to do?
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Yea I got a garage we could use and next weekend is actually perfect lol.
Well I love that GSXR that got painted and posted up, I think he said he used an S2000 laguna blue, I'd like a similar color. If not a white color would actually be really cool, if its white with metalic flake kinda white. Besides those two ideas, I don't know what a 03 F4i would look good on. Maybe a yellow and black? PM me and we can figure out how to do this all. I think my bike may need a little body work to look perfect, but I'm honestly not sure. Hit me up.
Well I love that GSXR that got painted and posted up, I think he said he used an S2000 laguna blue, I'd like a similar color. If not a white color would actually be really cool, if its white with metalic flake kinda white. Besides those two ideas, I don't know what a 03 F4i would look good on. Maybe a yellow and black? PM me and we can figure out how to do this all. I think my bike may need a little body work to look perfect, but I'm honestly not sure. Hit me up.