making sidecover.read if you want to be nearly as smart as me

1981 and 82 650.I realize I am smarter than most people.When I came home from the first day of school my teacher said if your mom asks how the first day went tell her the teacher says you are special.

Anyhow, I need a right sidecover for my 81 or 82 650.This will work for any xj made.This is almost like lens information overload.

You got a left one, right.There are 957 of them on ebay.None of the right side.
1.Take the left.lay it on a piece of cardboard.If you have time to waste go to the hobby store and buy chipboard.That could be saved for future patterns though.
2.Now you have the shape for the right one.I think they are the same.If not,just put the carboard after roughly cutting the shape and use marker.Cut it out.
3.Do you have any old junk sidecovers, dont fit anything you own, even busted ones.I do.If they have the same rubber prongs that fitinto the grommets you are blessed.
4.I dont know what is best to cut abs with, but cut out those with like a square of abs it is molded to. .u need 3.
5.Take your sheet of abs, or plexiglass, or whatever you are going to use.You could even take an old sidepanel, piece of busted worthless windjammer, whatever and use for the triangle.Cut that out.if you use plexiglas you can see through it.Put that seethrough panel inside the final mounting place.mark on the outside where the mounting prongs will be.lay those square things against the triangle,cut off the excess.use abs glue or chewing gum and mount inside the triangle. If you want 3 dimensional cut off the leading edges of the kawasaki sidepanel or what you have and abs glue them along the edges of the flat triangle you made for a more factory look. There are selfadhesive fiberglass patches used for drywall you can use inside that are moldable to hold things together.Paint over them with the black abs glue.It makes permanent bond.
6.You could go over everything with fiberglass,bondo, sand and paint.
7.I have not come up with a way to from the sideview to make a curved outer profile but these flat ones with the 1 inch or so border would probably do.
8.No more making one out of expanded wire mesh, or steel and have ugly boltheads and washers on the outside.
9.Go to the PLASTEX site, watch their video.It shows how to repair all this abs stuff if you have broken fairings etc.\
10.Told ya'll I was smart. I had 11 years of high school to prove it.

 

I like that . I can see that would work. I do have one question... How many proms did you go to ?

 

11.Never had a date.The last one I asked an 8th grader but i was 28 so her father said no.