Paint and wiring
Priming all done, middle fairing is wet, will be dull for the paint when it’s dry.
Slaped on some triflow paint on the bare metal parts of the frame, then soldered on the tail light connections.
What’s left to do?
sort brake light switch
sort a rear brake (low priority)
fettle the front brake
get brother to paint fairings
find air filter oil
Headlight (want a smaller one)
When all thats done, a test drive will happen, then i shall discover the pegs rear to be more rearset and the forks need to be shorter and the bars are too high and when i kill or get sick of the engine (after the summer) i shall paint the rear wheel and do a better job of the front one and finally sort out a faster engine.
Malossi air filter, sava mc7 tyres, tank leak.
Malossi air filter pod, should do the business. Fix the tank leak again, did not use enough hardener. used araldite.
Fixed niki’s bike, if I find Paul’s brother(he did the wiring) I’ll strangle him.
Started with the gold paint on the wheels, below is a a piece of plastic with the fiat green I want to put on the body work. Can’t see it very well.
After i sprayed on the gold i read the can, 7 DAYS to dry? and it needs lacquer? fuck that. Never again am i painting any of my bike’s or car’s, way to much hassle not enough driving.
Rxs100 taillight sorted, more paint drama. tyres are here!
Nice aprillia rs125, needed little modification to fit.
Painted underside of tank and glued up the new holes i found.
To much rain all together.
Halfords filler primer.
Silver paint that was lying around reacted and a decided against painting it silver, it would only work if he frame was red and that i can’t be arsed doing for a while. so it’s going to be British Racing Green with gold wheels. definitely this time.
Yellow matches the shocks eh?
Tyres and air filter turned up! dopes from easyparts.nl sent me the wrong type of rear tire but at least they charged me for the correctly for the cheaper tubeless, instead of the more expensive tubed tyre. i can run it wit a tube it’s not really a problem
What is a problem right now is that i have loads of work to do niki’s vl125 isn’t charging again and loads of the fourstar TGB’s need bits sorted for em. And paperwork needs doing license is out of date soon gotta sort that!
EDIT: got a haircut so i can’t tie my hair up anymore, i forgot i had such 80′s hair!
Tail and headlights. Micra with blown distributor.
Got this off an early xt350, bout the right size and turned upside down matches the angle of the tail piece.
Headlight will be a shallow spot I again dug up in the garden.
will mount on a quick remove bracket to to the side like an endurance racer. will be stuck on high all the time but it allways was anyway, 6 volts not giving much light out anyway.
Bastard to get right. In the end to much on and offing and bending of brackets got it in nearly the right place. Ended up flush with the tail piece instead of sticking out 1cm like I planned.
That light is now scrapped, brother found me a aprillia rs125 tail light that is shallow enough to be mount directly to the tail piece and much neater.
Not been busy over the last week or so, got stuff disconnected from the engine bay of the starlet ready to take the engine out just as the really wet weather hits 
The Girlfriends micra broke down, no spark, only now I find out that these cars have a weak point in the ampilfier which is buried in the distributor. 300 fucking euro for a reconditioned one, it was damn lucky it started right up after i installed it, was tempted to rip it all out and install megasquirt to avoid future problems with the NATS as well.
Starlet off the road,RXS buzzing about the place.
New NCT laws state that i will get 5points on my license and probably a €1500 fine for not having an NCT. So it’s down the garden now, gotta fix it up with no money and either sell it or NCT it.
Why do custom builders have so much trouble with battery box’s?
Needed to get the positive battery wire up front now so, while it was chopped up i whipped out unnecessary wires.
Battery zip-tied in place, loom temporarily taped up.
Shocks have added a little height to the rear, quite happy with that.
So off i went drove it around the drive, can’t wait to get it out on the road.
Note the airbox? it’s just a tube i dug out of the garden, got a 48mm airbox/pod thing on the way along with the sava mc7 tyres. tube thing will be cut down to fit the airbox/pod thing on.
And with those steps forward, one step back is taken, there is another hole in the tank on the right side this time. once that’s glued up paint will be silver on the top fairings and a red frame with (probably) black wheels. What else? tail and head lights and brakes sorting out. Are they really needed?
