Painting my Seca 650 turbo

What would be the best way to do a paint job for my fairings on my Seca turbo. What would I need to do to prep it?

 

I'm getting ready to paint the Turbo as well. I already had all of the fairngs removed as I've been restoring it. I've started by removing all of the pinstriping, repairing all of the stress cracks, wet sanding everything and then I'm going to paint them.

 

I plan on doing the painting myself, what would you recomend I use? I plan on making it matte black

 

When I painted mine I went the cheaper spray can route....but with good prep work including using fiberglass to fix hurt areas, the result is good imo.....the only thing bad is when a few gas droplets hit, the paint will smear probably.....I'm just really careful when fueling.

I've acquired an 83 recently that needs alot of tlc, and I plan on doing all gloss black, motor included. I will post photos in my gallery here sometime of that project.

-Nick

 

If you are just painting over old paint use a grey scuff pad or 600grit wet paper. You want to remove any and all of the shine from the paint, every corner and crack. Try to use a soft sanding block or double and trippling up the pad or paper and keeping your fingers together to avoid diging in a finger. Sometimes you can see grooves from rubbing to hard with a finger or draging a knuckle to hard. Scuffing with much finer grit than 600 or grey may not give good adhesion, and going much more coarse might show sand scratches.

 

Do I want to sand everything down before I start to paint or can I just take of the stickers and yamaha/seca emblems?

 

You will want to sand. you don't want to use to coarse of a sandpaper or you will see the scraches. I usually start with 800 gritt and go to 1000 grit before painting.
If your using rattle can be carefull gas will eat the paint. Spray can paint and clear coat just doesn't hold up to gas very well. I've learned the hard way. You can make it look good with rattle can but if you get gas on it, then there goes all your hard work.

 

Take off your emblems and stickers before you sand. Sanding with them on will create low spots and an outline of them. Using a little sandable primer where they were will help, somtimes a ghost will appear and an outline can be seen even if removed before sanding.

 

I've had too many bad experiences with spray cans... they create runs which create more sanding and then spraying again hoping it doesn't run.. which it will... or it'll spray blotters on a semi decent job... I went to harborfreight.com and ordered a 1.5mm compressor gravity fed sprayer.. it was on sale for $15 and works like a charm... my buddy painted cars for a living.. he used a 1.4mm ... but said a 1.5 will work just as good.. basically make smooth even strokes across... pick up some acetone to clean ur sprayer