Thanks for the props guys. It really does mean a lot.
I've been working on the dash quite a bit over the last week. I got the carbon fiber laid over the balsa wood and smoothed out with the epoxy. It took forever for each layer to dry. I did just buy some 4:1 expoxy. So, it'll lay up and dry a lot faster.
At first I was going to paint the dash to match the body work with the stripe going through it. But, the weave didn't match the rest of the bike. And, after looking at it with my wife, we decided it would look best glammed-down at bit. So I used the rubberized coating I used on my right side air scoop. I wanted to give it the abs plastic kind of look the rest of the plastics have. So here's what it looks like this morning.
The rubberized coating can be touched. But it still hasn't cured. As it cures the texture gets alot smaller and smoother. The expoxy over the carbon fiber will take about a week and half to cure completely itself. So it's all together to cure with stress in proper shape.
Once it's all completely dry, I'll lay some decals in the portion below the garmin where it is blank. I need some time to figure out what I'll put there anyway.
The indicator lights were some I had laying around from an S1 Lightning project I was doing. I simply molded those into the form. I still need to work on a check engine indicator and a low fuel warning light even though I'll use the fuel tracking on the garmin.
Overall, I think the little project is coming along nicely. It's certainly taken a lot of time this week. I've had some requests to show how the headlight was mounted. I plan on posting up some pics pretty soon on it.
I've been working on the dash quite a bit over the last week. I got the carbon fiber laid over the balsa wood and smoothed out with the epoxy. It took forever for each layer to dry. I did just buy some 4:1 expoxy. So, it'll lay up and dry a lot faster.
At first I was going to paint the dash to match the body work with the stripe going through it. But, the weave didn't match the rest of the bike. And, after looking at it with my wife, we decided it would look best glammed-down at bit. So I used the rubberized coating I used on my right side air scoop. I wanted to give it the abs plastic kind of look the rest of the plastics have. So here's what it looks like this morning.
The rubberized coating can be touched. But it still hasn't cured. As it cures the texture gets alot smaller and smoother. The expoxy over the carbon fiber will take about a week and half to cure completely itself. So it's all together to cure with stress in proper shape.
Once it's all completely dry, I'll lay some decals in the portion below the garmin where it is blank. I need some time to figure out what I'll put there anyway.
The indicator lights were some I had laying around from an S1 Lightning project I was doing. I simply molded those into the form. I still need to work on a check engine indicator and a low fuel warning light even though I'll use the fuel tracking on the garmin.
Overall, I think the little project is coming along nicely. It's certainly taken a lot of time this week. I've had some requests to show how the headlight was mounted. I plan on posting up some pics pretty soon on it.
