After I stripped the bodywork off of the RZ, I went to work getting all the old paint off of the fairings. Lots of sanding! Since the parts were old and used, there were also some spider cracks in the gel coat from bumps, flexing, etc. These require repair by adding a small patch of fiberglass cloth and resin from the back to stiffen up the area and prevent any more flexing. Then you use super fine finishing filler to fill in the spider cracks in the gel coat. The race glass is also pretty rough in terms of finish and so there were lots of pinholes in the glass that needed to be filled if we want this to look nice- which we definitely do! After sanding, cleaning and wet sanding, we are ready to prime the parts…
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1971 Honda Z50A K2 Restoration
One of the latest projects in the shop is the 71 Z50A we restored using as many of the original parts as possible. Often, these Z50’s are just rebuilt using all the reproduction parts available Read more…
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