Project Skunk Complete!

[Cruzr]

Really beautiful paint job and restore - looks GREAT!

[mark]

Gotta love that polished valve cover. Nice.

[renobruce]

But seriously...Looks fantastic, bet she rides even better8-) 8-) 8-) post more pics post more pics post more pics post more pics

This bike is a blast to ride! Tons of power and it handles great for an old girl. I haven't ridden it since the new tires were put on. Looking forward to that. I'll get some more pics up when she's cleaned up a bit.

[GILES JENSEN]

good job!

refurbishing my '83 1100L right now, just painted the tank today. got the same pipe and put the k-n in the org. air box, rejetted, runs great. will post up pics later. no all original looking but clean.........very clean!

[MissFabulous]

Nice revival! Can't wait to start that kind of polishing myself - great job at not only bringing her back to life, but restoring her glory!

[renobruce]

I guess since I posted this in the Performance Mods section, I should list the mods I did:

The motor is stock
K&N filters
Dynojet stage 3
Vance & Hines Megaphone
Dyna coils and wires
Dyna S ignition
New clutch plates, fibers, and heavy duty springs
Lockhart oil cooler with braided lines
VDO oil pressure gauge
Progressive springs
Daytona fork Brace
Russell braided brake lines
Drilled rotors
Rebuilt calipers and master cylinders
Pirelli Sport Demons
New wheel bearings
Mostly all new cables
New bearings for swing arm and steering head
Sylvania Silver Star headlight
Aluminum short stalk signals
Bar end weights
Allen heads almost everywhere
Braided hoses all over
Lots of NOS stuff (whatever I could find)
Lots of polishing
Lots of ebay buying and selling
Lots and lots of labor!

I loved every minute of it! :-D

[beby99]

Very nice Bruce...looks great. I don't know where you find the time to do all this....you retired or something?

[drhermanstein]

Beautiful, well done. I love those skunks.

Most enormous example of irony I've ever experienced. I quote myself here asking for the readers to specifically notice the part about "loving skunks"..........
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Guess what happened to my cat the same day I say I love skunks. Yep, got woken up by the stench!!!!! And am dealing with the aftermath this AM

[thewiz]

Congrats Bruce. Looks great! Still working on my 78 1000e. BTW, your oil pressure guage looks great on mine. Good product.

[renobruce]

Very nice Bruce...looks great. I don't know where you find the time to do all this....you retired or something?

HA! That's funny! Retired? I wish. More like re-tired, or retarded. I bought the bike in July, 2005. It was mostly finished last winter. The paint came in July '06, and it's taken me this long to finish it up! I just whittled away at it slowly between two businesses, two kids, and lots of honey-do's!

Now I can start putting together my other project.... another '78 GS1000 with a bored motor and lots of goodies. The Beast! \\/

[renobruce]

Gotta love that polished valve cover. Nice.

That valve cover took me forever to do! What a knuckle-busting, bleeding, cracked skin job that was! Mostly done by hand and a dremel tool. But it was worth it, I think. You can't see it very well, but it does add alot to the engine appearance.

[Billyboy]

ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS!:-D
I can only hope for my bike to look that good.

[Surly]

Fantastic Work

I'd love to do the same to "stinky." My 78 is a skunk also and I gave it the name because of the many times in the last year I've walked out to a garage full of gas fumes caused by random carb/petcock issues.

Now that it is running consistently, I'd like to take mine down the same road as yours next winter. If it is still in the stable that is. PO really wants it back - now that it runs so dang good thanks to help from all of you!

[renobruce]

Now that it is running consistently, I'd like to take mine down the same road as yours next winter. If it is still in the stable that is. PO really wants it back - now that it runs so dang good thanks to help from all of you!

I would start buying the stuff you need NOW. That way it's less of an impact on your wallet and you will have everything you need when you are ready. I bought alot of stuff either new or in better shape than what I had, and sold the leftovers on ebay. That helped offset my expenses. This bike had a pristine stock exhaust (once it was cleaned up) which I sold on ebay for $611.00!:shock: \\/ That helped me buy alot of stuff I needed.

[UncleMike]

What did you do for the gauges?