Fork conversion done and photos of aftermath

I've gotten the forks done and finished up all of the side projects, here are some photos of her.

Now, I'll have to wait for the weather to warm up.




Pics of the hugger mod - ala Brennan



Slotted the stock sprocket cover and painted it and the new Yoyo.



Relocated the oil cooler.




The new cockpit




Garage door opener connected to the passing switch - Put it on last year but....




Finally !! - Pic of the whole bike....


I'd like to thank everyone who has helped, either with parts or advice.


Cheers

Beautiful!!
Great color combination too.
How did you do the oil cooler relocation? What is your source for bracket/oil lines?

Very nice ride.

Where did you source your plug wires from?

to chaas67: Okay, I need more information on the garage door opener mod!!!! (Now that's something I could use.)

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Ronn &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">How did you do the oil cooler relocation? What is your source for bracket/oil lines?</TD></TR></TABLE>

Ronn - The oil cooler is from a '96 Monster. I purchased the upper valve cover, lines and cooler off of a bike being parted out. Everything bolted right up with no problems....

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by CaliDuc &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Where did you source your plug wires from?</TD></TR></TABLE>

Caliduc - The plugs wires came with the Dyna ignition coil that I purchased from Chris Kelley at CA-cycleworks. From your question, I hope that I can source them on their own.....

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Dutch900 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">to chaas67: Okay, I need more information on the garage door opener mod!!!! (Now that's something I could use.) </TD></TR></TABLE>

Dutch900 - Grabbed a spare garage opener and did the following.
- removed the circuit board from inside
- unsoldered the micro switch and soldered in a piece of wire, now its 'on' all the time
- replace the battery connector with a couple of short leads

I then went to Radio Shack and purchased a car adapter that steps 12v down to 9v, and a project box to house the whole thing. ( My garage door opener needed a 9v source )

- open the car adapter and remove the circuit board inside
- solder the pwr input leads, of the garage opener, to the 9V output of the car adapter
- I then replaced the positive and negative input leads of the car adapter with two leads. These will be connected to the hi-beam wire and grounded to the bike respectivily.

At this point you should have your garage door opener with its input leads soldered to the 9V output leads of the car adapter.

Take the input leads of the car adapter and connect the positive to the hi-beam wire. ( I can get you the color code of the wire tonight - don't recall at this time ) and the negative lead to the battery or bike.

When you press the flash button or turn on your brights you will then energize the garage door opener and because you replaced the button with a piece of wire it will be active.

I put the whole thing in the project box and filled it with silicone to protect it from the weather.

The range isn't any worse than it was before, I can open the door from the end of the drive. YMMV

I ran with this setup all last year and I have ridden with my brights on all day, ie the opener is also active. It doesn't appear have any ill effect on the opener and no I haven't noticed any garage doors opening as I pass. The car adapter is a fused ciruit and I kept that in place, if it blows I'll just have to tear it apart to fix.

In the photo, you'll notice the LED and the 8 pin DIP switch. The LED was my way of confirming that electricity is getting to the opener portion of the circuit. The DIP switch is for the coding of the opener.

All told, it cost me about $25, much cheaper than the solutions offered by companies selling this for 'Harleys' and it works for my garage. It only took me an hour of time and 2 beers.

Damn that was a long quick explanation !!!! If you have any other questions just drop me an email at chris.haas5@verizon.net.

Cheers

That looks awesome man! Good Work

Nice work, Chris and thanks for all the help you gave me. I tried my fork conversion out in Tucson but I couldn't tell much because I need softer springs. Where did you get the one-piece fairings and nose piece?
Joe

Chaas67!

Now you can ride down the street with your flashing button held on and see just how many garage doors you can open in your neighborhood.

Joe,

The fairing is from SharkSkinz, workmanship and fit are great.

What led you to think you need to change to softer springs ?

Suspension setup is a mystery to me and I have no clue how to check what springs are installed already and what the preload / compression are set at. I'll be educating myself on this while I wait for the weather to get nice.

Cheers

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Now you can ride down the street with your flashing button held on and see just how many garage doors you can open in your neighborhood. </TD></TR></TABLE>

Just wait until I replace my windshield with the X-ray version

nice looking bike and great lookin workmanship! Thanks for sharing the photos.

beautiful ride you've got. curious about the hugger mod, i'd thought about something like this to the stock plastic on my monster (can't really justify the cost for a nice carbon one yet), did you just cut the stock with a band-saw or something? looks very well finished.

In order to get 35-40 mm of loaded sag, I need too much static (no rider) sag. In order to get the forks to bottom at all I need like 45-50mm of rider sag. Jason's section8superbike site has a good explanation about suspension setup (also I weigh 150lbs and .85-.90kg springs work best for me, but those forks come with 1.0kg springs).
Joe

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by monarc &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> curious about the hugger mod, i'd thought about something like this to the stock plastic on my monster (can't really justify the cost for a nice carbon one yet), did you just cut the stock with a band-saw or something? looks very well finished.</TD></TR></TABLE>

I owe that idea to Brennan (sp?). Here's a link to the original thread.
http://speedzilla.zeroforum.co...age=3

Cheers

Very nice work, Chaas!

Where did you get your new front brake lines? I'm just finishing with the SBK fork conversion on my 97 900ss and this is what is holding me up as the stock lines wont fit without putting too much stress on them.

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by azccj &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Where did you get your new front brake lines? I'm just finishing with the SBK fork conversion on my 97 900ss and this is what is holding me up as the stock lines wont fit without putting too much stress on them.</TD></TR></TABLE>

I purchased a set for an SBK.

The only issue I ran into was finding the color I wanted.

Cheers

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by azccj &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Where did you get your new front brake lines? I'm just finishing with the SBK fork conversion on my 97 900ss and this is what is holding me up as the stock lines wont fit without putting too much stress on them.</TD></TR></TABLE>

azccj, I went with Galfer 2-line brake hoses from Cyclebrakes.com. I ordered them with Supersport fittings at the master cylinder and 90 degree SBK fittings for the newer 2-pin calipers (65 mm mounts) that I replaced mine with. I ordered them 1" shorter since the banjo bolts are higher on the 2-pin calipers. Delivered in 2 days!!

Beautiful. Simply beautiful. All mods done tasetfully. I especially like the "passing switch -&gt; garage door opener" trick. Thats something I'll have to consider on mine.

If only you could get something to temporarily ZAP the FI chips on other bikes your ride/race with!



Of course, I ride on a carbed bike!