Thanks to those of you who have either sold me parts or bought parts from me the past few months. I thought I'd throw up a few pics of where I am right now before I attempt to put this beast back together.
Sometimes I still can't believe I've taken a perfectly good condition '04 and done this to it... but hey, in my mind, this bike was meant to race, not look good. Like many of you have also come to think, riding on the track is where it's really at, and I just don't enjoy riding this bike on the street anymore. After a relatively front-end damaging lowside, I'm making the transformation permanent. So, this rookie is going racing this year.
I'm still looking for 2 things to get everything ready:
1) Cleaned up rear subframe as much as it needs to be for now. Removed turn signal and light wiring, chopped subframe, made battery mount.
I'm not quite up to doing the battery relocation just yet. That will be a summer project; for now I just built a new battery housing out of aluminum. Seems to fit pretty well.
2) Mounted rear hugger. It's not pretty, but it cost under $20 and it's perfectly functional.
3) Mounted bodywork. Pretty straight forward. The parts are all from different manufacturers so I was expecting a nightmare, but it all looks ok. Nothing close to perfect, but good for now.
Now it's time to do some final prep. work, mask, and paint this sucker!
I've done a bunch of trackdays with my street bodywork the past two years and now it's time to take it to the next level. I've wanted to race since I was 15 but couldn't afford it, so now I want to give it a shot. Still don't know if I can afford it but I'm in the position to at least give it a try.
No worries on the 600's, I'll be racing Open Twins . Now those things starting with a D. and ending with a 1098... that's a different story.
I'm sure I will have some questions at some point...
It's a Cheetah race tail on a SP1 subframe (which doesn't use the same front mounting points as the SP2 subframe apparently so I'll have to fabricate my own.)
Yeah... that's what I thought. I'll have to look more in detail because the ones I thought it bolted to on the subframe are not even close. The problem with removing everything and then leaving it for months is that you forget where S*$# goes and I didn't take pics beforehand...
I have no idea what rear subframe I have; it definitely doesn't have the front mounting points, and they haven't been removed either. Just simply aren't there. Weird. It was brand new too. Anyway, I just made my own from some aluminum.
She's primed, sanded, ready for paint. Now if I could just make up my bloody mind which of two paint schemes to use...
I finally have the paint done on this thing. After much deliberation, I decided that as cool as it would have been to do a proper job by getting a compressor and good paint, I decided to spend the money on a steering damper and some rearsets instead. Kind of a no brainer since it's a track bike and not a show queen. Time of course will tell whether it's durable and continues to look good, but for a rattle-can job I'm pretty damn stoked!
More pics to come when the paint hardens completely and I can buff it out and put the decals on, but for now I couldn't help throwing up one pic! It's going to have white rear number plates, and one black plate on the front which will help balance things out a little so that it doesn't look so blocky. The Moriwaki fins will break up some of the white in the middle too, so it should look pretty nice I reckon.
I'm planning on getting my AFM license May 11... so it will be completely done by then. Stay tuned...
No, I haven't adjusted those since I put the front end back together. They won't be that low, although I do like them lower than most because I have monkey-arms.
There are still a few things that need sorting, like mounting the steering damper, repositioning a few things in the undertail and placing a few more stickers and numbers but she's back up and running with new paint. Thought I'd share a few photos before I get the chance to wreck it
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. Now those things starting with a D. and ending with a 1098... that's a different story.
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