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  • #1

    Job done

    Just finished my winter project of rebuilding a 1981 XS 1100 special. Started with the engine, all seals, gaskets, rings etc. Then the brakes and seat and last off the paint. Will be proud to park at Tim Hortons this summer with the other riders. pics in MY PHOTOS. The color shift went on perfect and looks great, unique for my area. Now if the snow would disappear MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.
    Had to go back and fix my spelling errors. Plus added a few different pictures.
    Thanks for the comments
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  • #2
    So.... is color chit a new color they make? It's not really much of a brown.. but I have seen a somewhat close gold colored mess in a diaper or two from my kids that comes close. Not so much the purple though..

    That does look good. Congratulations

    Tod
    Try your hardest to be the kind of person your dog thinks you are.

    You can live to be 100, as long as you give up everything that would make you want to live to be 100!

    Current bikes:
    '06 Suzuki DR650
    *'82 XJ1100 with the 1179 kit. "Mad Maxim"
    '82 XJ1100 Completely stock fixer-upper
    '82 XJ1100 Bagger fixer-upper
    '82 XJ1100 Motor/frame and lots of boxes of parts
    '82 XJ1100 Parts bike
    '81 XS1100 Special
    '81 YZ250
    '80 XS850 Special
    '80 XR100
    *Crashed/Totalled, still own

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    • #3
      Purdy color! I like the irridecence. I bet it looks even better in the sunlight. Good job on the bike!
      1980 XS850SG - Sold
      1981 XS1100LH Midnight Special (Sold) - purchased 9/29/08
      Fully Vetterized and Dynojet Kit added, Heated Grips, Truck-Lite LED headlight, Accel Coils, Irridium plugs, TKAT Fork Brace, XS850LH Final Drive & Black SS Brake lines from Chacal.
      Here's my web page devoted to my bike! XS/XJ User's Manuals there, and the XJ1100 Service Manual and both XS1100 Service manuals (free download!).

      Whether you think you can, or you think you cannot - You're right.
      -H. Ford

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      • #4
        I like it too!
        I thought about doing the color shift paint... but wasn't sure how it would turn out...
        Yours looks really good...


        Like Tod... I never saw it in purple either...
        81 SH Something Special
        81 frame, 80 tank and side covers, 79 tail light and carbs, 78 engine, 750 final drive mod, Geezer rec/reg, 140 mains, LH wheels
        ☺

        79 SF MEAUQABEAUXS
        81SH Nor'eas tah (Old Red)
        80 LG Black Magic
        78 E Standard Practice


        James 3:17

        If I can make at least one person smile, or pee their pants a little, or maybe spit out their drink; then my day is not wasted.

        “Alis Volat Propriis”

        Yamaha XS 1100 Classic
        For those on FB

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        • #5
          Hi Teach & welcome.
          Nice job there, especially with the colour-shifting paint. They made us learn this poem at school:-
          "The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold
          And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold - - - "
          But be warned, it did not end well for those guys.
          And Tod, Wildkat, did your kids never eat crayons? Mine did but unlike "The Destruction of Sennacherib" the subsequent cleanup is a memory I have managed to almost entirely suppress.
          Fred Hill, S'toon
          XS11SG with Spirit of America sidecar
          "The Flying Pumpkin"

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          • #6
            Very nice!!

            With two under my belt that are 12 and 15 its been ALOT of years since I looked at their crap. But, if it came out lookin like that, I WOULD remember, if I wanted to or not!!
            Life is what happens while your planning everything else!

            When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

            81 XS1100 Special - Humpty Dumpty
            80 XS1100 Special - Project Resurrection


            Previously owned
            93 GSX600F
            80 XS1100 Special - Ruby
            81 XS1100 Special
            81 CB750 C
            80 CB750 C
            78 XS750

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            • #7
              just curious-where did you post these photos not showing up using Mozilla firefox
              1980 XS1100 SG
              Inline fuel filters
              New wires in old coils-outer spark plugs
              160 mph speedometer mod
              Kerker Exhaust
              xschop K & N air filter setup
              Dynojet Recalibration kit
              1999 Kawasaki ZRX1100
              1997 Jeep Cherokee 4.5"lift installed

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              • #8
                I found them in the members photos section. Looks great. I did a similar paint job on mine a few years ago. It was Red with a Blue pearl in it. I was not smart enough to clear coat it and the sun has faded it so now it just looks red. Oh well.
                2-79 XS1100 SF
                2-78 XS1100 E Best bike Ever
                80 XS 1100 SG Big bore kit but not fully running yet.
                Couple of more parts bikes of which 2 more will live!

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                • #9
                  Bello, mi piagge molto! have a nice day and ride safe
                  I am the Lorax, I speak for the Trees

                  '80 XS1100 SG (It's Evil, Wicked, Mean & Nasty)

                  '79 XS1100 F R (IL Barrachino)

                  '00 Suzuki Intruder 1400 (La Soccola)

                  '77 KZ400s (La Putana)

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