'80 gs1000g

[Poncho68147]

Picked up this bike for $250 back in August. I had to put on a new petcock and replace the battery. It runs really good, but I want to change the looks a bit. Gonna go a little Cafe style with it, but nothing to crazy.

[Poncho68147]

A few pics of things I've done the last couple of weeks.


Taking apart the back end to build a new seat.




Old bars




New Bars

[Poncho68147]

Building a new seat pan. Using 24 gauge sheet metal to mock up a prototype. Gonna make the end product out of 16 gauge.

What I started with.



What I have so far

[Poncho68147]

Plans for the coming weeks include K&N pods, some new paint, new tires, and new tail light/turn signals.

[Go Mifune]

loooking good so far.

[Poncho68147]

Got some paint laid down on the old girl today. Starting to look pretty good. Gotta do some color sanding and it will look very nice.

[Gssheller]

Looks great!
That red is HOT!
keep it up!

[tkent02]

Looks very nice, tell us about the paint?

[Poncho68147]

The paint is PPG shop series urethane. The color is cherry red. Did 3 coats of base and 3 coats of clear. This was my first experience painting anything automotive. I laid it down with an HVLP gun from Harbor Freight. I was a little leery of using a cheap gun, but had heard some great things about them from a few people I know. For a 13 dollar gun it worked damn good.

[Poncho68147]

Also, the side panels are gonna be gloss black. I'm just gonna try Krylon Fusion on those. I'm also thinking of painting the stock Suzuki emblems gloss black as well.

I may talk to a guy about doing some thin black pinstripes on the tank, fender and rear fairing. Red and black is my favorite color combo, and I think I will look great on my GS.

[TheCafeKid]

Also, the side panels are gonna be gloss black. I'm just gonna try Krylon Fusion on those. I'm also thinking of painting the stock Suzuki emblems gloss black as well.

I may talk to a guy about doing some thin black pinstripes on the tank, fender and rear fairing. Red and black is my favorite color combo, and I think I will look great on my GS.

I'd stay away from Krylon. It doesn't seem to play well with others and painted over anything or painted on by anything else, it will curl and crack. Duplicolour should work and mix with your current paint.

[Poncho68147]

The Krylon is going on the side panels that have been sanded down to bare plastic. I appreciate the concern though. If it does wrinkle or crack I'll sand it down and get some duplicolor.

[detorn]

any plans for the old bars, or the airbox? I know its not the vogue at the moment, but I dig the higher pitch bars.

[Poncho68147]

any plans for the old bars, or the airbox? I know its not the vogue at the moment, but I dig the higher pitch bars.

I took the stock bars off this winter. I just didn't like the way the felt. I'm hoping to get rid of the stock air box and get some k and n pods.

[850 Combat]

If your old stock seat isn't torn and the vinyl is still soft, I would like to buy it.

Also, how many cfm of a compressor did you have? or how many hp?

I need to try my hand on paint.