OK, I guess your FE is longer ... I have to check mine and see if its going to look like yours in that pic in your avatar. Maybe its an camera fish eye thing ... maybe not, your other pics still look raked.
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Srinath.

Its like 1 hour from being on the road ... except ...
OK I took it all apart, got the frame powdercoated, got the heads done 3 angle valve, decking it, gaskets etc, fit the motor back and all else back, fit the FE on it ... it was 99% done when I realised I didn;t have a front caliper for it. Then life took over, and we loaded it in a E350 van that we turned into a trailer and moved to houston. Then 6 months went by and I hated my job there and we moved right back to NC. In houston though, I found a caliper for it. Then in NC its sat in that trailer in the location of the driver for the last 6 months while I have been buried in other projects. Needless to say, I have plonked a 1000 things between it and the right side double doors ... so getting it out will take 3 hours ... but once out its 1 hour. Fitting rear fender, fitting light misc like caliper etc, bleeding it and test running it.
Anyway, I will get it done soon.
However I bought savage #4 october, and am furiously fixing it ... it should be done and running in the next 2 weeks.
Anyway, I have to get the maxim done and to my friend, get the virago stuff back from my houston upholstery guy etc etc. Then there is the never ending GS500 parade.
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Srinath.

I have realised that the time it takes me to buy and tear down a busted bike and find the parts for it, and fit it back together is exactly 1 hour more than the interval at which these exciting projects show up in my neighborhood. So I have to move where there is fewer exciting projects or work faster.
Anyway, that bike has been bobbed so severely that whoever sees it is going to assume it was also chopped.
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Srinath.

Finally someone else says exactly what I been saying for years ...
Powdercoating will not look as pretty as paint the day the 2 are done. 1 year out, they are starting to look similar if they have been inside, and if they have been outside they look very similar. 2 years later, the powder looks better, no matter what, and after that its no contest.
I clear over powdercoat usually, and even better on some powder, you can sand with 1000 grit and paint clear ... at any time, over even clear coated powder.
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Srinath.

Yonuh Adisi FSO wrote on 01/10/09 at 16:47:15:


Get some cheapie bungie cords.  Hang the fender and side cover on then and then do the spraying.  

Tried to straighten the boogered up parts of the fender and side cover but it didn't work very well as I ran out of paint. (using rattle cans) The tank and forward controls look good though.

I just ain't a body man, I think next time I will just take the tins to a body shop here in town. I know they do good work because they painted my buddies VTX1300.

Fired it up a few minutes ago. The FireLizard is coming together again nicely except the wiring harness I had bought off of e-bay was the wrong one, so I had to just fix my old harness and use it. That's okay though, that just means I have a harness for my 87 frame when I get done using it for mock-ups and get ready to build it for my daughter.

All I got left to do is do a bit of wire management and put the tank on and button it the rest of the way up and I will be ready to roll again.