All of the new fiberglass was skim-coated with a layer of Wurth's polyester glazing putty.
It does an excellent job of filling the tiny pinholes inherent to hand-laid fiberglass. Ninety-five percent of this material was removed in the final sanding. The final step before priming was to remove 10 mils of material from all the jamb edges. This is the equivalent to the thickness of the primer and paint that was yet to be applied and would allow it to have good fitting parts after the paintwork was finished.
The new rear side panels were primed with DuPont's URO Primer. This is the part of the bike you don't see when it's all together.
All the panels are now wearing brand new DuPont Imron 5000 paint jobs and hung in the garage drying for several days.
The pieces were then sanded and buffed using 3M's Imperial polishing system. It's done but not quite. Aaron had to finish and install the motor and changed out the gray wheel assemblies to white. And, as with any racing effort, sponsors and team members change all the time so most the decals would be replaced before it hit the salt again.
Viola! Final assembly at dusk and just a few hours before I left at three a.m. the next morning to meet Aaron in Kansas City. The things we do for the love of motorcycling, eh?