The master & the apprentice! SSSA into CBR900

[damo1]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/72979784165831.JPG


Alright then here we go Dropped into Exbens today for some much needed work on the blade.

Single sided swingarm and a new can.

Here she is with the orig arm removed.

[damo1]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/72979784157515.JPG


Had to take about 7mm off this lug on the inside of the frame.

[damo1]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/72979784148125.JPG


also had to give the arm a trim down the arm about 5mm

[damo1]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/72979784155934.JPG


Heres Ben machining the arm its like poetry in motion watching him work his magic.

[damo1]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/72979784162327.JPG


So heres the arm in the bike first fit up all the easy stuff done now the hard stuff. This took us about an hour to get to this piont.

[damo1]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/72979784156179.JPG


Then we had to make up a spacer between the y of the arm as usually it bolts around the VFR engine.

[damo1]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/72979784157751.JPG


Then get the shock back in and its all looking sweet so far.

[WATEVR]

excellent progress pics, keep em coming. shes gonna be awesome!!!

[crazymofo]

noooiiiice damo, looking suave

cheers.joe.

[catchmeifyoucan]

looking nice..

[FIGHTERMC]

excellent work there Damo1 keep the pics comming mate.

[zx12argh]

so thats what exben looks like...

I was expecting wrenches for hands and a TIG welder for a... well... hmmm.

Looking good. Rest of the bike staying the same?

[gibbo]

Gotta love that array of fine tools there Devo, claw hammer, shifter, pliers etc. I'm sure that 4 x 2 is some exotic timber known for its tremendous strength and not just a piece of plain old pine;)

[EXBEN]

quote:gibbo Posted - 07 Mar 2007 : 20:12:57
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Gotta love that array of fine tools there Devo, claw hammer, shifter, pliers etc. I'm sure that 4 x 2 is some exotic timber known for its tremendous strength and not just a piece of plain old pine
Hey nothing but the best carpentry tools for Damo!!!:D

[gibbo]

I just realised I called Damo Devo, my apologies to whomever is most offended[B)]


Ben, what size nails are you using to attach that swingarm mate?

[RUSS M8]

hmm, a new can as well... maybe a nice noisy one this time!!!

(that bike did come past me at EC once - fecken cool sound!)

[shift1313]

very cool, so we know who the single sided master is now. You putting x's on the wall somewhere ben?

[geesexar]

nice one damo...love them singlesiders

[03gixxerpilot]

nice one mate looking good so far, keep up the good work and keep the pics comming

[damo1]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/93875973270751.JPG


Heres the wheel with the tyre fitted.

[damo1]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/93875973266186.JPG


We had to replace the orig studs being these

[damo1]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/93875973258928.JPG


These are the new ones fitted in the hub there about twice the length
and slightly thicker than the orig ones.

[damo1]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/93875973254851.JPG


Then we had to make up some wheel spacers one was "one he prepared earlyer" off the tiller and we also needed a bit more i think all up it was 16mm

[damo1]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/93875973257528.JPG


This is the one he prepared earlyer.

Both these were a perfect fit and had to be just about pressed on
to the hub.

[damo1]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/93875973257715.JPG


Alright then hubs on spacers in place next is to line up the sprockets.

[damo1]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/93875973261526.JPG


The sprockets were 8mm out of alginment.

[damo1]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/93875973263712.JPG


Heres Ben machining the sprocket carrier down 3mm and then he made a sacer for the front sprocket it was perfect.Chain in time for a ride to enoy Bens neighbors again no can very loud.

[damo1]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/93875973246626.JPG


Next was the can this little puppy here.

[03gixxerpilot]

shit mate you don't stuff around, thats looknig awsome, which way are the sprockets out, do you need to space the engine sprocket out or the hub sprocket out?

[damo1]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/93875973250829.JPG


Ben miging in the link pipe

[damo1]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/93875973264325.JPG


Ben tiging the link slipper joint and the tip to the can

[damo1]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/93875973251835.JPG


Another shot of the master in action.

[damo1]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/93875973266111.JPG


Cans in place just had to tig on a mounting bracket.

[damo1]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/93875973276925.JPG


After about 7 hrs of the master and the apprentice working and bullshitting the blade rolls out of Disney land looking like this.

[damo1]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/93875973272160.JPG


And for every body to have a laugh heres me looking like a tool for a photo.

Recon id be in with a chance of biggest tool this year if i was going.

[damo1]

*So the end result is single sided swing arm

*17x7" rear wheel

*new can that has a very deep growl rather than the sreaming crackel that it had.

The next job or project will be to sort the top exhaust and seat unit to somthing shorter and thinner to make it more sleek looking through the rear its a bit fat and long up there now.

I like to thank Exben for all his effort and wisdom going in to this mod with out him it would have been a long slow process and an apprentice(being me)being very lost through most of this project.

Cheers mate your a champ and your blood should be bottled for future generations to have the same attitude and knowlege that will deffinatly be lost in years to come maybe you could train up max so my boy has someone to go to when hes doing this shit to his bikes.

Cheers mate

[Phill]

You forgot something, Rear brakes! LOL

Bastards, makes the job look all too easy.
I'll post some pics later just to show you how desperate I am to finish my single sider off!
Phill

[EXBEN]

quote:Phill Posted - 08 Mar 2007 : 08:25:42
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You forgot something, Rear brakes! LOL

Bastards, makes the job look all too easy.
I'll post some pics later just to show you how desperate I am to finish my single sider off!
Phill
That didn't take long for someone to notice. Geez we can't get anything past you guys.:D
Damo's just a wild man who said he doesn't need rear brakes.
In fact he asked me If we should take the front's off too....;)

[EXBEN]

Nice pics there Damo & thanks for the kind words. I didn't realise you took so many pics.
Before any one else says it Yes my workshop is a mess.
Let the shitcaning begin!!!.:D

[Large]

I just want to know if it can still blow flames

[dane_ra]

Absolutely love the build pics. As Phill said, too easy...

Mate that tail section needs the Jenny Craig Treatment, so glad to hear its next on the list. Looking great and can't wait to see more progress pics.

Holy snapping arseholes Damo, what is that thing on top of your head. You get caught out at the Mardis Gras or summat mate?

:D

[damo1]

*03gix the sprockets where out in that the rear spocket was 8mm to far out so Ben machined
3mm off the sprocket carrier and then made a spacer of 5mm for the front sprocket to come out
futher it didnt fowel the sprocket cover and is now perfectly lined up.

*Phil me and Ben are trying to save wieght on this build and we both decided that there was no
way i could lose any more wieght so we left off the rear calipure instead.
Na just wieghting for more bits to turn up.

*Large at the moment no but im thinking of going back to the butane bottle for a while,but in the long
run its all going to change back there so i dont want to get to carried away waisting to much time on it.

*Chalky how dare you bag a man for a shit hair cut after all ive got a full head of hair and for me the difference
between a good hair cut and a bad hair is only about 7 days.But in saying that you are wright its a fuckn shocker
its all about bad decisions and i made one its not the first and it wont be the last.HAHAHAHAHAHA cheers mate nice
of you to notice.

[03gixxerpilot]

damo would it be possible to get a pic of the sprocket carrier after the 3mm was machined off, it would be good if you could also do one of befor as well

cheers Clive

[damo1]

Sorry 03Gix no photos but i can tell you he machined off 3mm
which left 9mm thickness where the sproket bolts to the carrier.

[damo1]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/93876033370358.JPG


Right pulled the old system and the 4" tip off and all the flame thrower gear out must have removed about 4kgs it makes the rear look better straight away takes some of the length out of it.

[damo1]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/93876033378150.JPG


Now i just have this big fuckn hole in the rear that looks like
an arse hole ive just got to work out what im going to do with it
until thje next stage of the build.

Any suggestions? its got to be cheap.

[Slingblade]

Looks great Damo.

Its weird how the single sider made the blades tail look twice the size! Although i always find the blade tails look larger in pics than real life. Its hard to photograph them at a good angle.

Pity you cant make it to the fools mate. The blades might have been out in force!!

A dirty great round stop light, like the ones on trailers.

A big smiley pic :)

[Slingblade]

For the meantime just get some mesh from supercrap and cut a circle of it to fit. I can just imagine people trying to figure out what the fuck is behind there!!

[damo1]

Im thinking of ripping one of the dolls heads off my daughters dolls and sticking that in there
and then calling the bike the baby killer.

Or maybe i could borrow your pocket pussy Chalky and stick that in there and call it
a ripe cunt and charge the public to root it.

[Gix11]

Nice one Damo. Yea, the new hairdo caught me out as well. As for Pete wondering what Ben looked like, there are plenty of photos on the site of that handsome bastard floating around. That wheel is a real nice design as well mate, good choice. I plan to do the single sider on my new project as well so you might have a bloke with a bike on a trailer outside your place sometime during the year Ben. Can you still source single wheels? ......and single siders come to think of it!
Back to Damo. That bike is coming together great mate. I have to agree with the fact that the back end needs to go to Jenny Craig. As for the hole, how about gluing a piece of coloured perspex in there for now or something similar and add and ASF sticker??

[03gixxerpilot]

thanks mate that is what i was after, but i think i can get away without machining the sprocket carrier on the gixxer, but handy info to know if i need to do it, let us know how you go wiht it.

[EXBEN]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/938760371116610.jpg

You said you wanted cheap.............
This would be good for scaring small children.:D

[03gixxerpilot]

thats enough to stop any one/thing

Actually I was gonna suggest a foto of a dog laying a cable but we're not supposed to be taking the piss out of Honda riders so much anymore :D.

I guess that fpoto from you Ben does it for me though :D

In fact I was going to ask if Damo had become the knew Orange Wiggle, what with his trendy new hairdo and all :D

[Large]

I'm thinking Goatse....

You're always thinking Goatse, ya fuggin pervert :D

[Cruisecontrol]

Goatse would blend into the colour scheme too well...

[damo1]

The hairs already gone.

Si maybe an ASF sticker would be the go but i dont have any?????????

[EXBEN]

I do.:)

[Large]

quote:Originally posted by Cruisecontrol

Goatse would blend into the colour scheme too well...


http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/93876071378590.jpg

[Cruisecontrol]

Haha, perfect!

[FIGHTERMC]

Fook damo1 you don't waste any time mate.

[chopiesel]

quote:Originally posted by FIGHTERMC

Fook damo1 you don't waste any time mate.



its his desktop wallpaper im sure.

[WATEVR]

shit hot mate well done.

[Slingblade]

quote:Originally posted by Large


quote:Originally posted by Cruisecontrol

Goatse would blend into the colour scheme too well...


http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/93876071378590.jpg



Alright now i am convinced.........some of you blokes have way too much bloody time on your hands :D

[Vcook]

bike looks great!

[damo1]

Fighter its all about preperation about 8months of it all up still waiting for a rear brake
calipure braket so it aint done yet just very close.

[Gix11]

If Ben will let you steal a sticker go that way mate, but if not send me an email.

[damo1]

No probs Si.

Ive also changed the gearing went from 15/42 to 14/45 its heaps better
and pulls like a 16 year old boy through the mid range now.

And its also brought the meaty part of the torque curve down in there as well
its made it a completly different bike awesome.

Helps with the wheelies to comes up nice and slow and more controlable.

[Slingblade]

Jesus Damo, stock gearing is 16/43! You have gone two down on the front and up two on the rear, that is the equivelant of 8 up!!! It must sit on 8 grand at 110!!??

[damo1]

Not a hundred percent sure the speedo is that far out now.

Im thinkn about 80ks is about 100ks on the speedo so if im close
at 130ks its pulling about 61/2 7 from memory so thats probly about 110ks
somthing like that you are trying to grab another gear but theres none left.

Ive worked this out roughly buy riding beside another bike that i thought was doing 80ks

[EXBEN]

It's actually 15 /45 Damo down one up two.

[damo1]

Are you shaw????

Because it was a 15 tooth on the front before and i thought we went one down
from that and thats why it took so long to get it in????
Well i mean they sent the wrong one first and we had to get another.

[Slingblade]

I am going to 15/45 once my current sprockets are shagged.
Any lower and it would start turning into a stunter!!

[damo1]

And the problem with that is???????????

[Cruisecontrol]

15/45 is the stock gearing for the Bandits. I always thought it was a little high...

[damo1]

Obviously the difference is in the gear box ratios between the badit and the blade.
isnt the bandit a five speed?
because the blade has asix speed.

[Cruisecontrol]

Five it is.

Ha, I didn't even consider the gearbox. [:I]

[HueyonaBlade]

Top thread Damo , You must be stoked , As an aspiring builder could you tell me how much roughly for the swinger conversion :)

[damo1]

The arm cost me $350

The wheel cost $185

all the brackets/bolts for the brake calipure that im still waiting for $120

Had to get longer wheel studs $25

Chain and sprockets $250 had to get a custom rear one but thats because i wanted a 520 chain sprocket combo
if you stayed with a 530 you could use the orig VFR one that was $125 on its own

I already had the can laying around
The tyre was the orig

And yeah im absolutly wrapped with it just need to sort the seat unit out now.

[HueyonaBlade]

And the most expensive cost of all, Bens time? lol

[EXBEN]

Yeah Bout $500, Damo got a partial trade deal tho.;)

[Jockney Rebel]

BEN HOW MUCH DY RECKON TO SHORTEN A BOX SWINGING ARM TO FIT MY BIKE ?

[damo1]

Heres the gixer tail as a rough fit up whats your opinion of this as an up grade[?]


http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/48485047876488.JPG

[damo1]

The sub frame will be cut away buts thats pretty much exactly where it will sit once done and by the looks it will be an easy mod:D
With very little bracket manufacturing the front just needs some nut serts staight into the sub frame and a couple of bracets to the seat and the rear of the seat unit to the orig suzuki mounting holes.;)

I want your honest opinion i can take the good and bad so give it to me straight [:0]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/48485047875492.JPG

[Hillsy]

Looks better than stock - a bit hard to tell how much though with that cowl (??) and the subframe still visible. The lines are good in relation to the tank. Go for it.

[damo1]

Because i dont have the rear seat or orig seat cowl ill have to mod this one to fit it will be cut down heaps to follow the line off the back end of the seat unit over the tail lights so it wont be so obtrusive as it is now i just put it there to give the basic idea of it.

[damo1]

So it will look more like this i recon this looks pretty trick and really cleans up the rear:D



http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/48485055762176.JPG

[Hillsy]

Yeah that's nice Damo - top of the tail lines up with the top of the tank which makes it look right.

[WATEVR]

any chance damo of cutting and shutting it so it sits in front of the rear wheel, not overhanging it? otherwise heaps better than the original

[Rocket]

That looks heaps better Damo.
I reckon if you can get tail to finish inline with the back of the tyre or a little in front of it, you're on a winner.
That wheel really does look the shit !

[zx12argh]

Look good mate - but a bit to fat in the vertical... Ends up making it look a little stumpy and out of proportion.

Good luck with the conversion - I did one of those easy tail piece swaps... One long weekend turned into 5 weeks... :D

[exile]

The lines flow well from the top and bottom of the tank, IMHO its a very subtle seat swap and aslong as the subby's done well it will look like a factory finish [8D]

[Deano]

hey exile

tried to email you during the week about your headlights, did you get the email?

sorry damo

looking good brother.

[CBRRRT]

Hi Matey,

Your Blade looks fantastic, I am doing something like it my self, only I'm fitting an R1 subframe and seat unit, although it took a bit of figuring out how to mount the sub-frame its quite an easy job to do. If you want any information, templates etc.. let me know.

I am fitting a 96 VFR 750 arm and all is required is a spacer 25mm long with a 20mm hole through it. I have a 5.5J wheele from an earlier blade that will take a 180 section rear tyre and the spokes look nearly the same as the front wheele.

Anyway mate I'm in the my bike forum titled 'Another Blade' if you are about drop in for a tinny.

Killer Blade matey

Regards,

Jonathan.

[CBRRRT]

Sorry matey, not 'my bike'.....its 'your ride' forum, what a dick [:I]

[Gix11]

Contact member "BillyBob" mate, he owns it now. And for tips Damo can answer but Ben from Extreme Creations did it. He'd do yours for a fee if you wanted.

[Razorback]

Excellent work!! Damn Id love to have your mad skillz with your hands dewd...