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Post by acceleration on Jan 30, 2020 19:52:18 GMT -5
Thought I would put up a picture of the H2 750 project we are just finishing up ,restoring for Eric Fortin. A full frame up, frame off,restoration."ALL" of the work done "In House" in our shop. IE: Tear down, frame restore, crank rebuild, cylinder bore and hone, engine & trans rebuild,90 HP porting specs, paint work,and detail, re-assembly, detailing and tuning etc....Fired up on third kick and runs and drives great.With the 34MM Flat slides, and the TNT chambers, it sounds Awesome !!  ![]() |
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Post by reimair on Jan 30, 2020 21:49:54 GMT -5
Beautiful bike. Customer will be very happy with the bike, even if its not purple?
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Post by norm on Jan 31, 2020 8:04:02 GMT -5
Keith, another amazing project. Congrats to you and Duane. Eric will be pleased for sure.
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Post by sf on Jan 31, 2020 17:33:40 GMT -5
She looks beautiful....how about a vid of your shop smoked up!
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Post by crazycunuc on Feb 4, 2020 7:48:55 GMT -5
Great work as always!!
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Post by acceleration on Feb 22, 2020 12:56:30 GMT -5
Thanks for your interest in the bike and the project.I brought her outside just to see what it looked like outside.Bike show in Montreal next weekend.We will be going.Kawasaki is giving away a FREE bike on Saturday !! I will send you a picture of it when I DON'T win it !! Somebody else "always" wins it !! LOL !!  |
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Post by crazycunuc on Feb 23, 2020 7:53:00 GMT -5
What kind of bike are they giving away??
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Post by acceleration on Feb 23, 2020 8:46:11 GMT -5
Were are going to the show next Saturday.From what I heard the FREE bike is a Kawasaki Z400.Electronic ballet, drawing at 4:15.
I don't think I am going to stick around for the draw.The cards are marked, the deck is stacked, the dice is loaded, game is rigged.
How come WE never get to win anything !! ?? It says "anybody" can win !! I guess we are "nobody" and that is WHY we never win !! LOL Well the bikes at the show should be fun to look at any way.Kawasaki is actually giving away TWO bikes.The second one is a Z125.They won't let me win that one either !! LOL
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Post by al3 on Mar 31, 2020 9:30:56 GMT -5
Hello Acceleration I was asking Norm who painted his 1973 H2a purple and he referred me to you. By the way great work on the restoration. Here's my problem I have restored a 1973 H2a from the wheels up but I cannot find any purple H2a parts anywhere to color match. I saw the photo's of the purple paint that you used for Norm on his body set and it looks incredible just the right shade of purple. Would it be possible to give me the information on what kind paint that was used? It would be extremely helpful.
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Post by acceleration on Mar 31, 2020 21:11:42 GMT -5
Sorry but I can't help you with the paint color etc.....The way we do the paint finishes on the body sets, duplicates how the factory did them.It is not a solid single stage color. It is a process of multi layers of white, pearl, and silver bases, and a color tint to match what ever candy color is bring applied. To arrive at the final candy color, be it purple, gold ,green, blue etc.... It is NOT premixed. It is done by actually applying multi colored bases and tints in varying amounts. Then the paint finish is buffed and polished after the paint finish cures. The single stage color code mixes only approximate the original color and do not have the candy pearl effect.
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Post by al3 on Apr 1, 2020 9:03:19 GMT -5
Thanks for your response and I do understand the procedure. I have a small paint shop and have painted the blue H2's the same way as you described but I had an original H2 gas tank that I could reference the shade of blue. I do realize that they came in all different shades of purple as scene on Rick Brett's site. What did you use fora a reference photo's?
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Post by acceleration on Apr 1, 2020 16:21:27 GMT -5
Copy the original before stripping.
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Post by al3 on Apr 2, 2020 17:41:56 GMT -5
I wish it had the original paint on it. Instead it looked like it was painted with a brush with some funky green and orange colors. Like I said I have no reference point.
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