fimps TLR..... Bring on the Radial Calipers!!!!!

[fimpBIKES]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/fimpbikes TL1000R before.jpg

this is a "before" shot from early this year

cost me $3300 from motorcycle disposals in sydney
the official word was that the previous owner "fukt up a wheelie"

not sure how much damage he got, but the TLR was pretty much rooted
in hindsight it probably shouldnt have been re-registerable
but i think i have worked around that ok


im going to skip all the in-betweens
but for more detail check out here
http://www.tlplanet.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=41211

[fimpBIKES]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/fimpbikes TL1000R getting new cables.jpg

this is how it stood as of last weekend, just before i pushed it to the shop

she's getting longer/custom accelerator and choke cabels done
longer clutch line is on its way from our good buddy stu at the supermarket

pretty much just wrapping up a few of the little details now

it currently runs
- gsxr1000 02 forks
- gsxr1000 front calipers
- front brake master stolen off my SV til a busa one pops up on ebay
- HEL braided front brake and clutch lines
- LED indicators with libertek flasher unit
- battery moved up under the seat
- protaper carmicheal bars (black, naturally)
- satin black paint
- EK chain
- diablo corsa f/r
- busa headlight
- veypor VR2 gauge unit
- k&n filter

the final plan includes
- little german style rear end
- custom high mount exhaust using the old yoshi headers and supertrapp cans
- custom luxeon LED headlight modified from an R1 pocketbike headlight
- relocated RH switchgear and ignition barrel
- other little custom bits here and there [8D]

i cant wait to get this thing going
having it at the shop is driving me NUTS!!! i want it back to finish stuff off already!


so you like her?
got any comments? GO FOR IT!!!

How are you doing the Luxeons Fimp?

I've been looking at some 1 & 3 Watt ones (hobby shit), I presume you're going to use the 5 or 10 Watts units.

[fimpBIKES]

there is 10 Watt ones, holy crap!!

im using 2 5W white ones through elliptical lens's
not sure how good it'll be
but it seems to look pretty bright in the shed

i figure if i cant get them bright enough i will just throw in another h3 bulb and set the angle a bit lower than the other side

the biggest thing im worried about is heat, the 5W ones do warm up after a while

[TurboKat]

Hey Fimp,
Are you trying to start a new trend with that top triple clamp :(
Hope you don't have termites in your garage.
Is that what they mean when they say the handling felt a bit wooden :D

[fimpBIKES]

i was waiting for that!!! :D

just knocked it up so i could get the cables done
i mean come on, what kind of dumb-ass do u think i am?

the final one is gonna be mahogany, BLING BLING!!

Got a mate who was a bike mechanic in the 60's, in WA.

They got in a shipment of old English singles for parts, and me mate pulls the head off one, takes 2 looks at it and just can't figure out what was going on, the engine actually ran before he touched it, bit smoky, just needs rings he thought.
The piston was made of Jarrah, or some such hard wood, yet it worked on the old plodders.
He went to show his boss, and he pulls another one out from under the counter.
Apparently in the 40's and 50's it was done occasionally when they couldn't get parts in the wilds of WA.
Rob hit this thing up with an electric drill, and couldn't even mark it, hard as stainless he reckons.

The 10 W Luxeons are fairly new, and I don't know where you can get them locally yet. But they apparently light the night up big time, good for high beam.
What power supply/filters are you using? I've been working with one of the Jaycar high efficiency driver kits, but mainly for solar powered garage/outdoor lights and the like.
Could look at peltier devices for the 10W, but a decent sized (IE from a Pentium PC)heatsink should work with the 5W, plus fit up an LDR to reduce the amount of light output during the day/well lit conditions.

At the moment I'm just hanging for my new riser plate to turn up so that I can implement my new idiot 'glow' light system, using 9000+ mcd LED's, and hopefully fuel/temp gauges using the same 'glow' system.

[fimpBIKES]

define "glow light system"?
i found that the hi-intensity LEDs are just too damn bright unless u want to blind yourself every time u hit the blinkers on :D

i ground down the tips of some 5mm ones to take the "edge" of the brightness

the 5W are running off the jaycar kits thingos, i wanted to get optimum light out of them
no use wasting the power eh?

With the 5mm LED's I have drilled 5mm holes into a 10mm aluminium plate, and recessed a 6mm hole from the back, so that the LED's sit 2-3mm below the surface of the plate. When you look at the holes with the LED's off you just see a polished hole, the clear lens LED's are difficult to see. When they come on they are just far enough below the surface to create a strongly colored glow around the top of the hole, which is visible even in strong direct sunlight. The riser plate where they are going is at the right angle so that I don't actually see the LED's.
Because of the bar-end indicators I won't need indicator idiot lights, so I only need the other 3 idiot lights.

With a circuit like the Jaycar one (I have the same) you minimize the amount of heat being created by only supplying the necessary amount of power, but at the cost of bulk and expense. The kit is aimed more at battery and solar powered applications, where energy efficiency is paramount. Just by going to Luxeons you will already be saving a huge amount of power on your bike anyway. Plus you can get away with a lot of heat generation in the correct headlight set up, you could easily get away with a much simpler control.

[fimpBIKES]

holy shit, i actually did some work on this tonight!!!!

knocked a few things off my "shit-list"
i can now completely dismantle the hangers and everything on them with one allen key too, which is nice i think ;)

going to throw the MEGA stock rear end on tomorrow night and dig into these electrics again
once they are sorted its just a matter of rigging up the rad and bleeding all the hydaulic lines before i can take it for a quick spin (hurrah, at my pace that'll only take about 4 years...)

[fimpBIKES]

oh, and i should be picking up the adapter plates for the rearsets tomorrow arvo if all goes to plan
(although they are pretty prone to being late on stuff...)

[Razorback]

Looking truly horny Fimpster

[Boxer]

GS500s are always a good providor for fighter conversion throttle cables

[fimpBIKES]

sorry boxer,
all that crap above is heaps out of date (i think due to the bastards who deleted nov-dec last year on us)

i got a motocross throttle assembly on there, only about 50-60 degrees close->open :D

[dRRew]

hey fimp, was it expensive for the motox throttle set up? and do you think i could use it for my jnr fighter? any model in particular?

[fimpBIKES]

i dunno, it was just at the shop

i think it was about $150??

[fimpBIKES]

9am this morning...
http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/517913976162803.jpg

[fimpBIKES]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/18185445273852.jpg
isnt it great when things just work out the way ya planned? :D

[fimpBIKES]

and once again, this time with the lights off
http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/18185445237762.jpg

[fimpBIKES]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/18185445234874.jpg
here's a hint ;)

[fimpBIKES]

she is still plugging along
while the katana is getting sorted (waiting on parts)

i am finally getting back into the tiller

i got all the front nice and happy, have fitted shorty levers i got off someone in the US, 2nd hand but unused (cheap, naturally :D)

i have been told that the plate profiles i put in for quotation early in june are FINALLY getting done in the next week or two
so then i should be able to ditch the adapted aprilia rearsets for my new fimpSETS [}:)]
http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/39460806522779.JPG

[fimpBIKES]

i am also digging into the cooling circuit (see my other thread.... http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2248 )

and i got some strips of ally from work this arvo to make some headlight brackets to mount the 'busa light up for rego
the old snapped forks are going to come in handy here, cos i can bash the brackets and not worry about my pretty gold forks :D

anyhoo,
fun and games tonight
i had noticed some slop in the head bearings last time i was sitting on the bike bouncing up and down like a loon [:o)]
so i just pulled the front end apart (again...[B)]) and tightened the bejesus outta it, then tightened the bebebEJesus out of the frame insert that i had previously gotten machine using my big-bastard C-spanner
then tigthened the head stem again
then realised i had forgotten the dust seal and had to pull it apart and put that in [xx(]
then tightened the whole shebang outta it again

then as i was hopping up on the bike to set the handlebar angle where i wanted it (HAS to be done from the cockpit IMO) i couldnt get a decent footing on the RHS of the bike
and she S L O w L Y tipped over on its side

[:I][:I] fukfukettyFUUKFUCK!!! [:I][:I]

luckily i managed to lay it down onto my leg and avoided any damage :D



oh well, i also today found out that the alloy case for the veypor seems to be able to be used to rain-proof the whole thing

and since i plan on this being a real street-abused fighter i shall be ordering one ASAP (its currently the 4th of july in the US, so no rush to do that tonight ;))


oh dear
hopefully not too long to go [8D]

onya Con, she's been a fukin long time in the making so good to see some progress finally,now get back in the shed.

[fimpBIKES]

thats it!!!
no matter how i try to do it the franks triples arent going to let me use the steering lock, so fuck it im moving the kay elsewhere :D

problem is there is no bloody room anywhere on the RHS, damn tiny tiller...
i think i found a spot on the left, now to find some tapped holes in the chassis that are close

oh, btw
has anyone heard of this stuff?
http://www.zoopseal.com/product-detail.asp?prodID=9550

[glenpick]

Good luck with the project - looks like it's coming along nicely. Had a TLR myself some time ago & always thought it'd make a half decent fighter project.

[Slingblade]

Hey fimp. TL motors are a weapon. It should haul ass once it is finished. How did you source the forks and calipers etc? ebay? wreckers? everytime i look on ebay there doesnt seem to be much around.

[fimpBIKES]

mostly ebay
forks, brakes, another pair of sexier gold forks etc

mostly ebay and forums
for instance i got the triples off a guy who was parting out an ex-race tiller on the former TLPlanet
1/3 of rrp ;)

the only brand new, shop bought things thus far are the tyres, veypor, tail and clutch master reservior
oh, and a few things from stu and ben

but theyre more "friends" than suppliers

[Slingblade]

what is the veypor like? I am thinking of getting one for my blade. I prefer an all in one unit. I am just worried how accurate it is as the gear indicator works off the engine rpm and not a gearbox sensor. I wondered if it would "get lost" and forget what gear your in.

Have you had much of a chance to have a play with it??

[fimpBIKES]

all i have done is played with it,
not used it yet

some of the little displays stu is selling are quite nice too
and the veypor isnt waterproof without the aluminium case and a bit of vaso from what we have discovered

food for thought

oh, and i bent up my first little headlight mount last night
turned out a treat

now all i need to do is make 3 more exactly the same....

[Deano]

i been using a veypor for nearly 12 months.

works great. the gear ind is fine it works out the ratio between the rear wheel and engine rpm. it then claculates what gear you are in. it reads neutral if you pull in the clutch at speed as it can't calculate the gear.

i wouldn't fuck around with anything else. You have so many features on this thing that you can't go past it for value for money

[fimpBIKES]

mmm, i just heard some VERY interesting news about the new SV1000...

hopefully a fair few of the parts will be interchangable as if it is what i think it will be then this puppy might be up for sale in a year :D

[fimpBIKES]

crap! just remembered i forgot to pick up the plates for my rearsets last night

DOH!!!

[Slingblade]

Hey fimp, who do you use for powdercoating in Newy?? Thinking if getting my rearsets done.

[fimpBIKES]

no-one yet,
but our work uses a place up the road and i'll be looking to get some stuff done gloss black in the next month or so if that suits ya

[Slingblade]

Sounds ok. Let me know when you are doing it. We may get a discount for more items.

go satin black Fimp.theres sumthin about pearl(gloss) black that just doesnt look hard core enuff when it comes to poderkoat,just my 10 cents worth mate.

[fimpBIKES]

i sent some brackets (work related ones so i didnt pay the bill :D) up for a test run in gloss black and it looked pretty good
if anything too glossy

but its for the kats new wheels
and its gloss black so i figured i would just match em up
the only time those wheels will be on this tiller is when i am using hard commuter/burnout quality tyres ;)

yeah the "too glossy " factor is what im talkin about...over-bling.Satin is still shiny but not gloss and not matt. ok thats up to 20 cents.

[fimpBIKES]

mmm, will have to send some more brackets from work up there :D

your up late mate,day off tommorow? i can send you some PC charts if ya want.

[fimpBIKES]

your kidding right?
its not "late" for at least another hour :D

charts are good, can u email to me?

[fimpBIKES]

i have just been playing with my little overflow bottle

its actually an oil catch-can off ebay
jeez its nice, cost about fifty bucks but woulda taken my hours to machine

still, if i can find a good enough spot it wont quite fit in i might cut it in half
later i guess, just hang it off the side for now

[sprbeast]

hey fimp, can you post a pick of the catch bottle and how well does she work? i have a bunch in my watched list but have been hesitant for some reason. after moving the battry to the tail left a well enough void for something. i like the ones with the fitted tube for the site window. i was also contemplating modding up a box for where the old damper box was beside the spring. but like ya said it will be much easier to fancy a prefabbed unit off ebay!

[fimpBIKES]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/50594268251823.JPG

looks like this
its a bit porky, but i figure with the amount i have stripped off her already it wont worry things too much

good thing is that because of its construction u can undo the upper bolts and swivel the direction the hoses come in from, which i imagine will come in handy

oh, and the bolt from the bottom is magnetic fwiw :)

[fimpBIKES]

got around to tapping the holes in my veypor mount that i bandsawed out the other week
its made from 12mm and 3mm ally after the nylon one i did a few months back wasnt too my liking
2x M5 flat head cap screws come down from the top of the 3mm ally and then into the tapped lower part of the clamp

then the standard veypor bolts come up from the underside of the 3mm ally
very neat, im pretty chuffed with it
jut need to rip it apart and trim the 3mm down to a minimum once i have all the other various brackets done [8D]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/67264559597221.jpg

[fimpBIKES]

this shot shows a bit more of how it works

i was wanting to replace the veypor bolts with torx screws
but i think that they might be imperial (not M5 like i thought originally)
so that might make things tricky

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/672645595115544.jpg

[fimpBIKES]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/91021954444755.jpg

so now i just need to do the mount to adjust the beam height,
im actually suprised that it doesnt look too gaudy

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/91021954458849.jpg

[fimpBIKES]

what u reckon, lower it by about 50mm?

[pt]

yep

[Large]

I thought a busa headlight would look like a fucking walrus, but that looks ok

Can you do a full side on pic pls mate?

[Gix11]

I always love your mood lighting Fimp......

[Slingblade]

I like it fimp. Kinda looks similar to an MV Brutale light. Its definately coming along mate.

[fimpBIKES]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/102272775483566.jpg
yep, its too high!!!

[Large]

ta fimp

that exhaust is going to be loud

[fimpBIKES]

no, THAT exhaust is going to sound like shit cos its the stock one

the OTHER exhaust is going to be loud, hopefully loud enough to wake u up in the morning mate ;)

[BOHEMION]

looking NOICE Fimp get some Braided Hoses / lines ASAP mate

[Gix11]

You have gotta fit that new tail mate, that one sucks balls.

[fimpBIKES]

im thinking for radiator hoses that i will get some custom stainless ones done

i have a friend who has been using my tig to make up intercooler plumbing for a few years
so he owes me a favour or two

the way the hose jut comes straight out of the chassis rail like the photo above is going to make braided stuff too much of a hassle

[fimpBIKES]

sooooory mr gix,
dont blame me
blame the knob who made up the ADR's for motorcycles

and that hasnt even got the super fugly mudgaurd on it yet!!
it just aint right...

[Slingblade]

Its similar to my blade mate. Chunky ass. Most bikes were like that mid to late 90's. Even the supposed 'hallowed' Gixxers had serious booty back then. Thats why i am leaving my stock front guard. Dont want to make it look 'back heavy' with a tiny guard on the front.

[fimpBIKES]

funny u mention that
cos i was looking to get one of stu's little gaurds :D


fucking nutsert on the LHS pulled out...
going to see if i can rig it up with the stardard mounting positions now
pity i drilled holes in the light for nothing though :(

[Slingblade]

quote:Originally posted by fimpBIKES

funny u mention that
cos i was looking to get one of stu's little gaurds :D


fucking nutsert on the LHS pulled out...
going to see if i can rig it up with the stardard mounting positions now
pity i drilled holes in the light for nothing though :(


Hey man, if you wanna go with a small guard, go for it. Horses for courses. Thats what i love about fighters. No two are ever the same.

Man those things are hard to pull out. What type did you use? I have some pretty sturdy fuckers if you are interested.

jesus FiMp,thats a fine example of how Suzuki's are not supposed to look.bust out the Dremmel,close yours eyes and start cuttin,or atatch some streamers to the bar ends to distract the attention away from the fugly tail. exscuse now me while i vommit.

[fimpBIKES]

the nutsert worked fine
it was the plastic that fucked up
its actually really soft (which i noticed when i drilled it and almost put the drill-bit through the inner bit)

yeah, gaurd doesnt look too large now
but with the smaller tail on it becomes MASSIVE
and i figure that since its actually meant for a gixxer thou i should be able to get $200 odd for it

um, year thanks davo...
going for the title again i see :D

oh sorry mate,i'm actually being a bit reserved with my comments this year coz i dont wanna get a bad reputation.but i meant what i said about the dremmel,its a wonderful tool in the hands of a dedicated fighter builder.
cheers

[Slingblade]

Mate i think tl's are great things. Got an absolute pasting because of the weird rotary damper.which your tlr doesnt have, only the tls. The TLR copped stick because it wasnt a ducati. It wasnt 30 grand either. I came close to buying one new back in 2000 but insurance crippled me. That motor makes it all worth while. I think it will make a dirty, nasty fighter!

[fimpBIKES]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/1022727989137964.jpg
as u can see, rotary damper :(



dirty and nasty?
oh well, and to think i was going for cute & cuddly [:I]

quote:Originally posted by davo

oh sorry mate,i'm actually being a bit reserved with my comments this year coz i dont wanna get a bad reputation.but i meant what i said about the dremmel,its a wonderful tool in the hands of a dedicated fighter builder.
cheers



HOLY SNAPPING ASSHOLES, you found God, or you're feminine (aka gay) side there Davo?

[Slingblade]

quote:Originally posted by fimpBIKES

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/1022727989137964.jpg
as u can see, rotary damper :(



dirty and nasty?
oh well, and to think i was going for cute & cuddly [:I]


Fair enough, I thought they got rid of it on the tlr. You couldnt ride it hard enough on the road to get it to cause problems anyway. Only a racetrack would show it and you would have to be an A grade racer. As it was only a problem when the unit overheats.

Typical bike mags. A decent bike is released and they get an ex racer to test the thing on a clear track and pick the suspension to bits, when most road riders would not feel the difference between one setting to the next. There have been many good bikes crucified because of nit picking journo's who have to find bits to whinge about so they dont look biased.

[newf fighter]

Whats the difference between the TL and TLR?

[Slingblade]

TL1000S was half faired with a different frame. TL1000R was fully faired, and a bit more power.

[Tony Nitrous]

http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/6679/spicsnf5.jpg

http://img73.imageshack.us/img73/465/rpicskz0.jpg

[Slingblade]

A picture says a thousand words.......

Nice work Tony

[sprbeast]

fimp, looking good with the busa headlight. i wanted to go with the 2003 gsxr headlight but there weren't any in my price range when i was looking. i found something which i will post when she's ready.

here is what you can do to toss that stock rear suspension. it is a showa shock out of a honda F3. (there are a few that are the right dimension) you buy a spring for 70 bucks (us) and voila! of course mine's pretty with plating and shite

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/157964855234418.jpg

[sprbeast]

here are a few picks of what is done. you cannot go back afterwards (you can but it would be a pain in the arse)

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/157964855332213.jpg

[sprbeast]

now you see them.......

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/157964855322409.jpg

[sprbeast]

.............now you don't....note the lugs for the original setup

i have about 150 bucks in my setup 22 for the shock off ebay, 70 for the spring and 50 for a new spacer required to fit the spring. the plating and powder were cheap thrown in the pile of everything i was getting done anyway. the cheapest aftermarket i think is bitubo which runs 425 (all US bucks) i couldn't pass up this mod. cheaper, different, and i didn't just buy some aftermarket kit for it. (i am not out setting track records with it). although the people that did the research on the mod really enjoy it and like using it on the track. they just fit a goldvalve setup in it with great results.

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/157964855322233.jpg

[fimpBIKES]

chears super

i think i will wait for someone to part out a bike with a used bitubo or penske
not really something i need to worry about just yet

but eventually yeah, will keep an eye out for a cbr shock on ebay though
thanks for the heads-up

at work today, wishing i got another day off :D

oh, and i am seriously considering pod filters so i can put the overflow etc under the tank
but that'd be after rego so i am not too worried about it just now

need to relocate this key on the weekend too if i get around to it

[Slingblade]

Fimp i am chasing pods for my blade as we speak. $260 in Australia. I got onto a k&n dealer on ebay and he will do the same kit for $76 US and $26 US postage. Will save you some dough. How can they justify that markup in Australia! someone is making easy money. Gives me the shits.

[Large]

Who's the dealer NLT?

Yeah, I'm after a set for mine as well, so who is he?

[Slingblade]

the business is called part_monster. They are on US ebay. I am returning his email now to confirm i will be ordering soon. I will mention you guys want some as well.

[Gix11]

http://search.stores.ebay.com.au/PartMonster-Motorcycle-Parts_k-n_W0QQfciZQ2d1QQfclZ4QQfsnZPartMonsterQ20Motorcycl eQ20PartsQQfsooZ1QQfsopZ1QQftsZ2QQsaselZ47927476QQ satitleZkQ26nQQsofpZ0

[Slingblade]

Thanks Gix you little net wizard you!

If you want pods you will need the part number though as they are a universal thing. I just gave him the part number and asked for a price. The K&N powersports site has all the measurements and sizes.

I just ordered a set of mesh pods from ZPower, K&N replicas $29 each + P&H. get them next week. And they're black.

http://www.zpower.com.au/product_info.php/products_id/357?osCsid=709eae8d00eb8d4a1da3b42d595834a9

Don't know what sizes they have (I had to phone to confirm they had the correct size for the GPz), but might be worth a look for some of you.

[fimpBIKES]

yeah
definitely going thi way now

shall measure the throttle bodies tonight

[Slingblade]

DO IT fimp. Just think of that induction roar when the pods are mounted.

[sprbeast]

that sound will be AWESOME! a buddy of mine scared the shit out of me (head must have been in the clouds) when he coasted up beside me on his TLS and wacked open the throttle. (he took his airbox lid off) damn thing was capital....L...O...U...D!!! made lots of noise but he lost about 4hp. doing that mod. he said he felt it and seemed stronger but the dyno don't lie. he put it back on and kept it that way....what do ya do? he had the slow S model anyway...:D

[fimpBIKES]

im pretty chuffed with this!!!
http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/78486596687045.jpg


just need to get some stainless M5's tomorrow
cant stand screw-heads [xx(]

shall pull all these brackets off once done and probably get em powdered satin black (or polish, not sure yet)

is that a urine sample in your clutch reservoir Conrod???

[fimpBIKES]

yep, yo mamma's [:P]

careful tiger,my mamma can get you pregnant.

[fimpBIKES]

davo has 2 daddys?

[Slingblade]

Whats with the temp gauge fimp? you paranoid about that suzuki overheatin??

[fimpBIKES]

yep
im not sure if putting the single 750 radiator is going to muck things up
it might come off later on if i dont have heat issues

[Slingblade]

Ah good call. It should be ok you would think. Most of the jap manufacturers over compensate when it comes to cooling capacity. Saves warranties on cooked engines. Especially with the fairing off and allowing the fresh air around that rear cylinder.

[sprbeast]

i likey the guage fimp. i am looking into a 05' gsxr rad. (actually my brother has a damaged one at his shop) but after looking at the clearance it will be a squeeze between the fender and the cylinder. keep us posted once you get that far. as far as the naked bikes and the cooling the rear cylinder i thought it was funny that after sprbeast was up and going originally my bro and i were riding together and his TLR (with plastic) ran consistent 5-10 degrees cooler than my bike. i guess the aerodynamics are good for more than speed. fug it mine's cooler [8D]

[fimpBIKES]

yeah, the front wheel tends to make a big gap in airflow


and youre right, the gap is fucking tight with the wheel so close
shall post pic later tonight if ya like

[fimpBIKES]

my bro is over (he's an electrician)

so far the brake lights work :D

[fimpBIKES]

ok, i think i worked out why when i turn the ignition "on" bugger all happens
the least i was expecting was noise from the fuel pump but i just discovered this sentence in the manual

"when the ignition switch is turned on, current from the battery flows to the fuel pump through the side-stand relay and the fuel pump relay causing the motor to turn"

and guess who doesnt have a sidestand relay for whatever reason.....
fucking new-school bikes :(

[houle john]

yesirree , those new teck harnesses and all the sensors can be a bit of a nightmare.
what type of linkage set up are ya gona use on the swinger?
....oh ...and is there a slipper clutch available for the tl ? had an r model 99'
a while back and found them a little disturbing while turning into a sharp curve.
the ass end has a tendancy to chop on decelleration. i would assume a good slipper would take care of it though.
your bike looks cool btw. don't see to many fightered tl's over here.

Even happens on the old ones Fimp. My 85' has two earth paths for the igniter unit, one through the neutral switch, and one through the sidestand switch (so you don't ride off with sidestand down. If the sidestand switch goes the bike will fire over quite happily, and then die when you put it in gear. I just removed the switch and connected the wire straight to earth. Catches quite a few riders out though.

[fimpBIKES]

yeah, but thats just the switch itself
i would be quite happy to just connect the wires and be done with it
(the katana lets u ride around with the sidestand down and it hasnt got me yet...)

but this is the actual little relay thingy that the sidestand switch goes into
so i dont think it is just a matter of looping it off (cos it handles the in-gear, clutch in situation too)
pain in the arse thing about it is that its the relay and the indicator flasher in one unit
and i got a trick flasher off ben, so im not going to use the stock one anyways

i called one wrecker today and they didnt have any TL's
shall make more calls tomorrow

[fimpBIKES]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/102947204841237.JPG
this might clear it up

i might be able to replace it with a single-pole single throw relay and a diode if i can find out the required ratings ;)

[Slingblade]

So how long until the TL is on the road fimp? Its getting closer by the looks of it. Did you sort out the nutsert on the headlight mounting?

[fimpBIKES]

mate, i could have it on the road in a minute flat

running,legal and rego'd might take a few more weeks though ;)



oh, not using nutserts now they just pull through the soft housing plastic
using original mounting points

[fimpBIKES]

IT CRANKS!!!

dad (lectrical engineer) came over and helped my "dodgy" up the side stand relay with pretty-much just a regular horn relay and 2 diodes
BAM, IT CRANKS OVER :D

the fuel pump gasket leaks like a bitch though, so i might have to order one or make one out off goop


pretty good day all up :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

[Slingblade]

Must have been a sweet sound, hearing it trying to come to life. Did it run?

[fimpBIKES]

no fuel, gasket too leaky atm


will order a fresh gasket on monday (hopefully suzuki will pull there finger out and get that one to me ASAP)

[Slingblade]

They normally arent to bad at boyds. You would think they would stock most gaskets.

[Slingblade]

Strike that. I just remembered my mate visiting from griffith on his tls last year and getting fucked around trying to source some caliper retainer clips that fell out on the way up. Nightmare. You would have thought he was asking for rocking horse shit, not a reasonably common part that is common to a number of suzook models.

[fimpBIKES]

i suspect it might just be boyds,
im sure that they dont order stuff until your have called them the third time!!


im currently waiting on a few gaskets for the katana through them, they said 2-3days
its been a week and a half....

[Slingblade]

Howd it go fimp? did you get your gasket? Got the beast fired yet?

[fimpBIKES]

had to go to sydney last night

have the tank off now, about to hit it with the goo

[fimpBIKES]

IT RUNS!!!!!!!!


turns out i had no fuel or spark
cos i didnt have a tip-over sensor, ordered one yesterday overnight from sydney


cranked for a while and BAM!!! [8D]

[fimpBIKES]

oh, and the goo stuff worked just fine BTW

[Iceman]

Hey Fimp, is it just me or are you try'n to steal Damo's title for the longest thread ever?

[Large]

wtf isa tipover sensor?

quote:Originally posted by Iceman

Hey Fimp, is it just me or are you try'n to steal Damo's title for the longest thread ever?


LOL,OL,OL,.
this better be sumthin special when its finished Pimp,otherwise im gunna urinate on it.[:X]

[Slingblade]

Dont listen to em fimp. Hearing a bike fire up first time is the sweetest sound there is. Congrats.

Now get the bastard on the road.

[Stocky]

Just some things "electrical" for you to consider

The tip over switch can be replaced with a 64K ohm resistor.

Be carefull of bypassing the clutch switch.

When the clutch switch is activated the ignition map is altered and most (I did say most not all) Suzuki's will rev limit early.

When the clutch switch is in and the starter button is pressed the ECU locks all the injectors together (not sequential , all fire when ever one is supposed to fire) as a kind of choke feature to help it start.

I'm not saying you are bypassing anything or doing any of this, it's just some things to consider if you are messing with wiring.

;)

[damo1]

thats a low blow brother ice.
When are we going to see some more photos fimp we dont all like reading,
i just like lookn at pretty pics.

[fimpBIKES]

havent bypass clutch switch now
sorted that bit out


not many "pretty" pictures at the moment damo
its just a big wirey mess!!


shall see i can go for a spin round the block on sunday

wishing i wasnt at work right now!! :D


large, the tip-over sensor tells the bike if its upside down or not
cuts the -VE side of the coils and stops the fuel pump pumpin'

and for $50 i figure i shouldnt not have one
good for saving the motor if the cases get smashed open etc


oh, and it sounded pretty healthy
no wierd noises or anything, so im pretty relieved about that

dont worry davo, it'll be special
but PLEASE keep your cheesy cock away from it!
cheers

[fimpBIKES]

just an update
i havent been around cos my home computer died last week [xx(]
so only have access through work


i got the crack in the headstock welded up on monday night, $50
not the prettiest weld but i have been assured that it is solid (the guy who did it is a very good welder, it just doesnt have that pretty catipiller look to it)

the main rails for my new subframe are at the benders at the moment
should have them done by the weekend

so right now im making up carboard templates of the levers i am looking to use
then i plan on using the bandsaw at work to make them up on saturday

give me a sec, shall get a pic of my subframe up

[fimpBIKES]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/76056675449219.JPG

here u go
pink thing is just a dummy of the chassis

im not sure about the position of the reg/rect unit, i will see how much room there is elsewhere before commiting

its all ally
i havent shown where all the nut-serts go to hold the bodywork on
but basically there are 4 under the seat and two up into those holes in the rear plate


im aiming to go on a big ride to long-flat at the end of nov
so hopefully i can get the sexy tail on it before then

probably not with the final tail-lights, but i can just rig up some LEDs ;)

[Kamakazebusa]

Holy shit......someones's got to much time on their hands. Nice CAD work dude.....

[fimpBIKES]

holy crap its been a while!!!
this thread was 5 PAGES down in the "my ride" section....

oh well, here is some footage to show that it actually runs :D

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v676/fimpbikes/?action=view&current=2007_01_23RunningStockZorst.flv?t=11695448 65

[fimpBIKES]

ok then,
its not like i have entirely been neglecting the tiller


had a few tricky bits to work out


first up,
i want to have the key barrel tucked up under the gap 'tween the tank and the chassis
but the stock barrel is waaay to deep/tall to do it (cos of the steering lock thingy)



but...
i new that Capt Rego would frown upon a moved key barrel

only trouble is that the franks-racing triples dont seem to work so well with the steering lock (not sure why, cos they are off a TLR, or so i was told)
but anyways, in this pic u see the mounts that are doing the job for me now

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/73293580059116.JPG


the round one on the pics right is the stock franks-racing item (which is 20mm ally round, with the lower threaded hole offcentre by about 5mm)
and the left one is something i milled up from 12mm ally flat bar
it has a through hole up into the upper triple and a tapped hole for the key barrel
total offset on that side is about 28mm now (stock franks-racing offest was 0mm on that side)

[fimpBIKES]

ok then,


next i just had to grind a bit off the key barrel to allow clearance for my new mount

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/73293580044780.JPG


easy peasy

[fimpBIKES]

ok then,

one nice shiny M8x35 zinc coated button head capscrew up through the triple clamp end of my mount
and used the 2 standard M8 torx screws that Mr Suzuki decided to select
and a whole heap of loctite (cos if this mother comes loose im in deep deep doodoo [xx(])
apply some pressure and POOF!!!!

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/73293580066638.JPG

[fimpBIKES]

got about 3mm clearance at the worst point
and this thing isnt going ANYWHERE, its locked in eddie!

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/73293580037926.JPG

[strawb09]

sweet! lookin great thar fimp! given me sum inspiration!!!

[fimpBIKES]

ok then, moving right along!

i had a bloke at work weld some extra material where the steering stops were on the chassis
this was for two reasons
mainly cos the original ones were all smashed to shit from the crash and missing bits
and secondly cos the franks racing stops where they were allowed the too much steering angle

that caused the moto bars to hit the tank when u turned left (ignoring everything we know about countersteering.... [:I])
that might have had something to do with all the smashed off bits on the chassis side though!

so i got him to put on fuckloads
i aim to ground these so i have less than the standard steering angle (which i think is about 60?)
http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/73293580055839.JPG

[Large]

You just cost me $10 Conrad :(

[fimpBIKES]

seriously??
were u pricks betting i had thrown in the towel!


assholes!

[fimpBIKES]

ok, here is the new headlight that turned up in the male yesterday
(this might be for sale once i get her rego'd)

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/73293593672492.JPG


http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/73293593678996.JPG


http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/73293593673600.JPG



probably drop it about another 50mm when i finish the mounts
(need to make a little dog-bone link each side)
it'll probably tuck in a bit more too, just held on my zip ties for now :D

[fimpBIKES]

hmmm, new phone camera aint too good....

might pull out the proper one

[nelpd96]

Don't mind that light where did you get it from?

[HueyonaBlade]

Yeah I had my eye on that light aswell fimp but are they that good a finish ? as I was a bit scepticle of the quality

[fimpBIKES]

not bad actually


i think the bulbs are only 35Watt though
shall wire her up and take a pic tomorrow night

[alfiestorm]

Looks good and all the little engineering bits are good to see as this will make me more aware of the things to look out for when i build my fighter.
Good work fimp

[fimpBIKES]

grrr, stupid cooling system....

will it be ready for April fool?

[fimpBIKES]

no comment

[fimpBIKES]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/97641714268767.JPG


i did the stupid proceedure
had to take all the airbox and that off just to get to the thing to tap it with a hammer
not that i see how that could help



and i have slowly leant the bike as far as i dare to in each direction 2 or 3 times (im talking ALLLL the way down til the wheels wanted to fall out from under it!)

and the header tank cap is definitely the highest point in the system, even before doing all that shit

i mean, if the little bit under the airbox is such an issue than WTF not put a bleed screw on it???
u have to pull everything off the bike to get to it anyways!


and thats the ONLY place that air could be hiding in the system now
but i dont even know if its there!
dammit!!!

if i loosen the hose coming from the engine on the LHS and rotate it so its pointing at the sky and then lean the bike alll the way over to the right then the air HAS to all come out, yeah?
might try it in the morning



right now all i know is the exposed bit of ally tubing i have on the RHS is getting hot to touch
and all the stuff on the LHS doesnt seem to be heating up at all!


dont want to fry my engine, so i am trying to be carefull [xx(]

[fimpBIKES]

LHS
http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/97641714260915.JPG



RHS
http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/97641714269499.JPG

[fimpBIKES]

should point out that the header tank will sit lower once i get all this shit sorted....


anyone think of anything i might be doing wrong here??

[fimpBIKES]

The ONLY good thing about today was that my sezy new race stands showed up :D

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/97641714279699.JPG



why didnt i get some of these years ago???!?!?

Uuuum, I've seen you ride Fimp, what do you need a race stand for? :D :D

[fimpBIKES]

Uuuum, holding the bike up? [:P]

[fimpBIKES]

This is how the system should flow

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/97641744694494.JPG


http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/97641744622955.JPG




i REALLY need some help on this, im gonna go try the tipping to RHS and rotating the hose theory
im getting sick of the constant coolant "money shots"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu1r1_obMYE [:I]

[Hillsy]

Looks like you might need to hoist up the front to get the trapped air back into the radiator. If you've got a front stand, you might be able to just use that, or put a rope around your bars between the clamps and hoist the front with the rear wheel on the floor (this would be better because you can tilt the bike to move the air to the filler cap).

[fimpBIKES]

good point hillsy

its now on the front-stand as well
and i took off the hose coming from the engine on the LHS of the bike

and when i cranked it i expected a big fucking bukkake load outta that hose
but instead i get NOTHING!!!

wtf?
shouldnt most of the water from the system be coming out of there?

[evad]

Wouldn't the thermostat be stopping the coolant flow? Id run it until warm and see what happens when the thermostat opens. Once the water starts flowing through thee mill most of the air should be dragged trhough with the coolant, then try the air bleeding proceedure

[fimpBIKES]

yeah, thats a pretty fuckin good point!!


forgot about the thermostat
just to be sure, these fancy modern bikes turn emselves off if they get too hot yeah?
im just worried im gunna melt the block...

[fimpBIKES]

um, nope...


gonna seal things up, and hook up my digial gauge so i can make sure i dont melt it and try again in an hour or so

off to blow of some steam on the MTB for a while now but

[evad]

So how did you go?
If you keep the rad cap off you should be able to see the coolant flowing through it once the thermostat opens (with the cap off the coolant will boil at around 100deg c)

[fimpBIKES]

i think its sorted

will throw some pics up in a bit
eat pizza now, drink a beer etc

[evad]

Good stuff, Fimp headlight looks sick[8D] Where did you get it from
Cheers
Dave

[fimpBIKES]

oops, i passed out on the lounge... :D

oh well
thats officially the first time i have had 8 hours of sleep in a while!!!!!


headlight was from eBay, like i said i'll probably look at selling it after rego
so i can fit something a bit more "raw" ;)

[fimpBIKES]

ok then, this is how we bled the coolant
big "funnel" load of coolant on top of the filling point
all the hoses back on and just let it run until the engine got nice and hot (and the thermostat opened)

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/111720407123185.jpg


then just kept topping it up and blipping the throttle til it stopped sucking down any more coolant [8D]

easy...

[fimpBIKES]

ok, so the whole point of the 750 rad was to "tuck up" the front profile of the bike

there isnt much spare room
but i make sure that i JUST had enough room for one of these little puppies!!

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/11172040795480.jpg

[fimpBIKES]

starting to actually look like a motorcycle again [:X]

LHS
http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/111720407117020.jpg


RHS
http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/111720407137886.jpg

[fimpBIKES]

oh, and i have sus'ed out under where the airbox is a bit more
and if i go to pods then there is DEFINITELY going to be a nice little spot bhind the headstock for the header tank and an overflow bottle

and a bit more spare room for wiring etc to get tucked up in there

just need to try to figure out what the biggest size pods that i can fit in there are gonna be
(the bigger the amount of pre-throttle body filtered air the better yeah? i think i remember that from somewhere...)

[fimpBIKES]

hmmm, headlight isnt too bad actually


this is in my front room, at a range of 2900mm

Low
http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/11172040758515.jpg


High
http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/11172040764017.jpg



initial impression is that it puts out a decent spread!
possibly a little better than my old acerbis cyclopes on the SV

quote:Originally posted by fimpBIKES

(the bigger the amount of pre-throttle body filtered air the better yeah? i think i remember that from somewhere...)


That's the principle behind such large airboxes on bikes.

Don't know if it works for air pods though, I would think that the air flow through the filter material would be a more significant factor. Exposure would be big thing too. If youre pods are tucked away in a relatively still air area then the size wouldn't matter so much.

[damo1]

Ah fimp what happened to the tail unit of the previous couple of pages and the super trap cans that
were to grace the tiller had a change of haert or just to keep the dudes at the blue slip place
happy when you get there, then go back to the nasty and tasty stuff later.

[fimpBIKES]

tell me about it!!!

i have a big pile of "after blueslip" bits
sitting there

makes me sick having the stock shit on there [XX(]

[Large]

fuck the platypus lips off asapabs

:D

[fimpBIKES]

thats not the first time i have been told
that i could "fuck the lips off a platypus"



ps- wtf are u on about largey? the tail end?

[Large]

yep :)

[fimpBIKES]

WHALE TAIL!!!!


damn, i cant wait to see this thing finished next to a stock one

[shift1313]

lookin good. not much room infront of that radiator eh? :) as far as the filters go. The larger filters you put on the less air around them if you are in a small area like under the tank. The larger airbox theory is so your TBs can source air without running into restriction and also so the ram air can pressurize as large an area as possible. I dont remember the forumla but it comes about to be the displacement of how ever many cylinders are sucking air in and then some. Filters you want a large surface area but make sure that you can get air to all sides of the filter without restricting the other TB. Material is going to be more important then size like chalk said

[fimpBIKES]

cool

yeah, so if i get a good high-kwality filter that has good material then i should be sweet ;)

there will pretty much be no ram-air


yeah, not a lot of spare room in front of rad
might be a bit more when i get my new front guard

TLR is such a tricky bike to fighter IMO
or maybe its cos i am just trying to make it sooo much smaller than stock

off now to get some gasket goo to sort out this leaky clutch cover
hopefully that'll keep the oil where its meant to be!!!

Yep quality is more important than size

At least that's what some little man once told me :D

Wasn't you was it Davo?

[fimpBIKES]

shit, dont invite him into this thread [:P]


mmm, have been measuring up the katana's k&n pods
they will definitely fit in hieght under the tank (allowing about 5mm worth of adapter thickness)

but am getting the local speed shop to look into a pair of these for me
http://www.knfilters.com/search/product.aspx?Prod=RC-1950

would prefer plastic topped but this is the biggest/flattest one i can fit
so if they can get it i'll take some

am thinking about maybe putting in a thing to space the front of the tank up by 10mm or so
i did that on the SV and it really helped ot breath well


oh and new gasket stuff is setting
might put the bike on the rear stand and see if it starts leaking again shortly

How are you gonna fit them? too wide for 4 side by side, you gonna make up dual flanges for'em or summat?

[fimpBIKES]

she's a twin mate
the throttle bodies are HEAPS apart :D

oh, and the gasket goo seems to be holding
HURRAH!!

Doh!

[fimpBIKES]

gets me back for the VFR muck-up last night :D

Yeah, I was kinda hoping you'd forgotten about that one.

So when are ya bringing one of you're steeds down this way for a spin?

Depending on how things go over the next week I may be up for some interstate play again myself in a couple of weeks. Maybe we can organise a Newie/Sydney ride. Go and play on the Putty, or Kangaroo Valley.

Apparently the Snowies are very light on for traffic at the moment, what with all the bushfires and that keeping people busy/away.

[fimpBIKES]

ok then,

last night i had a brainwave as to my rearsets

decided to change the design so it all pivoted off the peg axis
this is after mundy recommended i spaced the pegs out a bit cos he thought
i would "miss them"

and i think he was right
so i figured if i was gonna make spacers i may as well make em useful ;)

[fimpBIKES]

oh and i have k&n's on the way

will need to machine up adapters so they fit on the throttle bodies 3-bolt pattern
shall put up pics when i have designed them (probably next week once the filters get here)


i have some steering now too
although no-where near the 60degrees lock-2-lock of the standard bike
no idea how to measure it either

anyways, how much do u need during countersteering anyways????

[fimpBIKES]

oh, and there is some megatec bodywork on its way from stu
(tell me its gonna be here in time mate!!!!)

will be at least a few weeks though

[fimpBIKES]

fuck its been a long night!!!



right now i SHOULD be loading up the van to head down to eastern creek
but alas, out of the 100 things i spent tidying up to pass scrutineering tonight
the LAST thing i checked have left me high and dry

bloody rearsets wont let me shift up

makes me wanna :(



oh well though, at least i got a crapload done!

gonna head down to the creek a bit later on to say hi to the fellas but yeah


here she is atm

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/321828471134514.jpg


http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/321828471135282.jpg




gonna go have a nap now :)

[fimpBIKES]

oh, and pods turned up today as well


pity i just put all the airbox back on AGAIN!!!! doh

[fimpBIKES]

you wouldnt believe it...
but i spent 10 MINUTES playing with the shifter link rod just then and now the linkage works perfectly [:I]

oh well, probably shouldnt have been down at eastern creek tired anyways
good news is that i talked to em and they are giving me half price on my next trackday so it wasnt a total waste


ooooh, and i got to see some ducati 1098S's hooning around the track
nice!!!!


so i just took the MAIDEN VOYAGE
and wow!

this thing is sweet, great to be on something with a bit of torque again
initial impressions are good, the quick action throttle isnt too snappy
and the cooling seems fine
its friggin hot here as usual and it didnt even get up to 80degrees

and the limited amount of steering angle didnt worry me at all

the rear brake seems wooden as all hell, cant even lock the rear!
but i think i will change the leverage ratio on the pedal (i.e. drill another hole in it to move the bit that the master cylinder attaches to closer to the main pivot point)


and of course i had my handy phone cam with me so took a rest-stop (mexican fools run style) on the way home to take some happy snaps :D
http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/530759650100246.JPG


http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/530759650117080.JPG

[fimpBIKES]

haha, did i mention that i got a couple of funny looks riding along!!

[Slingblade]

Great work fimp. Must have been a good feeling.

Nice headlight.............!!

[Large]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/530759747113493.jpg


That's betterer

[Iceman]

If that's the headlight, I definately don't want to see the tail light. lol

[fimpBIKES]

nice mods largey!!!

i wonder if chalky as the same headlight hidden under that helmut?? :D

Not even I'm that offensive Fimp

ya finally got me beat :D

[TurboKat]

May I see your registration papers Sir? [:0]
Good work lad, now hurry up & get the thing registrated so you can piss all the ugly stock shit off & have a proper STREETFIGHTER. [:p]

[fimpBIKES]

what u mean turbo?

thats it, finito!!! [xx(]

[TurboKat]

Bollocks. :(
Where's the Destroyer tail ?
The loud, offensive cans?
The etc?

[shift1313]

it lives. how close does your tire come to that srad radiator under full bump? looks close, hate to see it destroyed. any plans for a light

[fimpBIKES]

the tyre comes close

havent given it a full-on hard brake yet
but compressing the forks in the shed has it clearing (just)


selling that fender and fitting something that will give me more clearance anyways once its passed rego


few options for the light
see page 7 for the one i will use to get through rego

quote:Originally posted by shift1313

it lives. how close does your tire come to that srad radiator under full bump? looks close, hate to see it destroyed. any plans for a light


Seeing as how it's a Suzi twin, I've got a few suggestions for a light mate.
1. A match
2. a cigarette lighter
3. a bonfire
etc etc etc

:D

[jubuntu]

nice work, that looks mean!

[crazymofo]

fark yeah fimpy, looking good.. so theres going to be 2 suz V twins at afr... good shit.

cant wait to see the "illegal" stuff on there.

cheers.joe.

[fimpBIKES]

yeah, u should see the back end if i put the hump on
looks plain silly!!


oh well, gonna throw the headlight on it and some blinkers and go pay the rego nazi's a visit this week :D

[fimpBIKES]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/95287024852998.jpg


http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/95287024860550.jpg

[fimpBIKES]

ok then, so these are my prototype fimpSETS

a few little bugs to work out with the geometry before i make the final ones (non-adjustable minimal sorts things similar to the ABMs


the biggest problems atm are

RHS- the leverage for the brake lever isnt anywhere near enough, need to the move the mastercylinder hole closer to the pivot. also want to make sure the mounts for the MC are a bit closer to being at 90degrees to the lever so i get mx leverage

LHS- ok, the reason i didnt make it to eastern creek on friday is due to the shift linkage. basically when trying to shift up the linkasge would reach a point where the orange and red line lined up (as in got parallel). from there the whole think inverted and basically went spastic. so i want to move the pedal shift link mount point away from everything else.
it wont need much, at the moment i can get all the gears. but only cos the pedal is at a gammy angle [xx(]


other than that i need to redo the bushs for the pedal to rotate around
pedal is 6mm ally, so i need to make sure the bushes have JUST over 6mm tween em. i was worried about sideways slop so i did em under 6mm
but the problem is i cant tighten the bolt that goes through the guts of it all enough
so the peg undos after a couple of shifts up and down

so yeah, minor issues
also need to machine up some nice little pedal ends to replace the multiple washers i had there for the test run



but yeah, i will tidy these up and use them for rego
the final ones might be a bit to "minimalist" for the legal-beagles at the pits

[fimpBIKES]

anyways, the rearsets are pretty sweet now

rear brake is MUCH better, although there is a bit of flex in the 3mm ally sheet i used to bracket the MC
shall use 6mm in the final one and she'll be apples

off to see capt blue-slip tomorrow arvo
let him give it the once over and then hopefully go back to him on friday (i moved my friday to sat at work so i can hoon around and get her rego'd ;))
then shall have to go to the pricks at carrington and they will probably give me a grand old shafting

but if all goes well i shall be riding her to work on sat :D

Way to go Fimp

Expect to see fresh piccies by Sat arvo mate

[fimpBIKES]

sorry chalky

but not much point taking any foto's for ya (and YES, technically it is still LATE saturday afternoon :D)

basically i now have 2 big fugly stock suzuki indicators on the rear (roundy ones, i think from the SV, but who knows??)
and i am about to shove the two BIIG shovel sized ones from the katana on the front

i seriously am too ashamed to pull out the camera right now :(
stupid laws...

oh and adding to the incredible good looks atm is the massive mess of wiring sticking out the front
but it should all tuck up behind the headlight once im sorted so not too worried about that


i did manage to get over to the blueslip bloke on friday (but not with the blinkers or headlight on)
generally he seemed pretty happy with how the bike was put together

and i gave him all the chassis/engine numbers and that
so all i have to do is get the blinkers, headlights and chaingaurd on and swing by on monday arvo

then its off to the RTA where i have to book in to get an appointment at the pits

they better be able to do it this week or im gonna cry some
have a ride with the SV blokes up to the oxley this weekend and there is no way in hell im taking the 250!!!


um, what else...

oh yeah, i just hooked up the "trickflasher" i bought off exben
took about 2secs and the little strobe-to-fade mode makes even the big fugly blinkers looks trick!
cheers ben!

(for reference on the TLR i put the blue wire on the trickflasher to dark green on the TL, and the white wire on the trickflasher to the light blue one on the TL)
simple

shall post a vid of them once i get the sexy little LED indicators on ;)

[fimpBIKES]

oh, and since i was stuck at work all day with nobody looking over my shoulder (for once)
i redesigned my fimpSETS (version "X") now that i have the prototypes all happy and working properly

will post of a screenshot on monday for ya's
dead sexy though!

You still got the Kat11 Fimp?

[fimpBIKES]

yep, need to get the defect cleared soon (nice to have a back-up vehicle for the fools run just in case ;))

oh, and my bro's 750 pop-up "katana" is in the shed too cos he moved the other week
so i am back to having 4 'zuks again :D

he doesnt know it yet, but i am gonna steal his zorst to get me through rego
hehehe

[fimpBIKES]

oh, i should mention that it feels really funny through corners
doesnt want to hold a line...

but that might just be me not being used to wide rear tyres and moto-x bars

i had a look at the stock steering damper today
but i dont think that there is any room for it anymore


oh, might check the headstem torque tomorrow too
might have "settled" a bit in the couple of k's i have racked up so far

Yeah, big fat rear tyres may be good for straight line work, but aren't the best for handling through the twisties.

[fimpBIKES]

not even twisties!
just going around roundabouts and stuff in the backstreets

steering is just really sensitive (but i am used to clipons ATM)

oh i forgot, need to put on some big fugly mirrors too

did i mention how much the laws suck?
if i had waited another year the TLR would be 10yrs old and i wouldnt need to worry about taking it to the pits either

oh well

yeah, need to call motorcycle disposals on monday too
cant find the fucking reciept for the thing ANYWHERE

i probably put it "somewhere safe"...

[fimpBIKES]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/86703768113457.jpg

[chopiesel]

looking good mate, should be good to have a couple tillers running around in dubbvagas

[fimpBIKES]

haha, "dubbvagas"


the only gamble is whether our bikes will be safe from the locals at night!!!!

now i havta organise with the RTA to go "to the pits"
they better squeeze me in this week
REALLY getting keen for this oxley trip on the weekend now!

[damo1]

About fuckn time fimpster good to see.

Have a nice ride down the ox buddy do a coupla k's for me mate.

[fimpBIKES]

as far as i am concerned the rta are a butch of cunts


i hope they get cancerous growths on their genitals the shape of me giving them the finger!!!!
dumb motherfuckers

[chopiesel]

so it passed ok then?

[fimpBIKES]

oh man,
what a friggin ordeal!!

the blue slip inspection was a breeze
Mr Blueslip (Heath from "Newcastle Motorcycle Doctor, top bloke. fully recommended)
told me to organise with RTA to get 2nd inspection done cos its a repairable write-off

which is apparently just to make sure that it has matching numbers and nothing is stolen etc


so i call the RTA,
nope, cant organise an appointment over the phone...

so i go to the RTA at raymond terrace at lunch yesterday
with my blueslip in hand (as i was instructed to do on the phone)
lady says "have you got your receipt"
"no, wasnt told to bring it"
so she tells me i need to bring in my receipts and then they can get a booking at the 2nd inspection

another interesting thing she said was that the "selection process for the inspection is random"
WTF? what kind of system is this i ask??
"its our computer system, its very complicated and you wouldnt understand it"
cant say i appreciated that....

ok so i get back to work
piss off at 4pm, shoot home, get receipts without taking helmet off and straight off into newcastle RTA
this is at peak hour and the whole trip from work to RTA took me half an hour, so i wasnt mucking about :D

wait at RTA for 20minutes, time standing still...

give the man blueslip,
give the man receipts,
funny look from man...
"where is your greenslip?"

pissed off look at man,
"i wasnt told to bring a greenslip, im only trying to book the second inspection at Carrington"

he then tells me that they need to pretty much register the bike in the computer,
give it a number plate and THEN if the system feels like it then it MIGHT select me at RANDOM
he actually said the word "random" again...

now, i already have a personalised plate in storage at that particular branch of the RTA
"cant you just allocate me that plate and then its will tell us if i need the inspection"
"no"

so i storm out, pissed as cos there is no way in hell that i am gonna have the bike rego'd by the weekend

im also now expecting that im gonna get screwed on the plate thing
cos it seems that i have to be allocated a plate THEN i am going to have to transfer to my personalised plate
so i am thinking that they are going to whack me with a transfer fee....


ok, so i still have no greenslip cos i spend so much time fucking about running to the RTA and back that i am not going to get there again this week (and of course they are lazy fuckers and so no late night shopping ours on thursnight when people can actually get there!)


doesnt end there either, i rang up to get a greenslip when i got home
they cant send a faxed one or email, it has to be snail-mailed to me
so thats more time wasted sitting around

BUT
i can go and buy one direct from the commonwealth bank in hamilton
although the problem there arises that the bank is a bank
and therefore is only open for about 3 hours a day...

so that wont happen this week either


so i call up allianz (this is all through allianz cos for some reason they are $100 cheaper than everyone else)
today while at work cos i have admitted defeat and decided to just buy one on the phone and get it mailed out and sort out the rego next week

the girl on the phone (cute voice btw) tells me that i COULD get the greenslip
BUT the RTA need the date on the greenslip to line up exactly with the date i get rego'd
so if they post it and date it for tuesday i HAVE TO get it sorted out on tuesday
otherwise i would have to cancell the greenslip, get a refund and then order another one (which of course has to be posted once again....and so on)

which doesnt sound too bad EXCEPT that i am not ACTUALLY going to get my rego when i take it to the RTA cos i know i am going to have to go to the 2nd inspection
which (although their fucked up computer system doesnt let them see how long the wait to get in at Carrington is going to be) will probably not be for 2-3 days AFTER i take the greenslip to the RTA

so either way im pretty much screwed...


thinking i will just do a runner after lunch on monday, go to the bank and get greenslip and then go to the RTA in newcastle

i figure if i am at the same RTA branch that actually has my personalisd plate in storage then i have less of a chance of getting fucked over on the transfer fee

i hope...




so there u go, the system is fucked
no-one at the RTA seems to be able to explain things to customers right the first time
and i am now assuming that the whole Government is run by some "Random" computer system that no-one understands at all [XX(]





ps- the tiller is running fine btw, tempting me all the time with its sexy looks....

pps- turns out the allianz girl (remember, the cute one) lives in brisbane. but unfortunately when i asked her if i could just rego the bike in her name she only giggled politely and gave me a "no". worth a shot :D

[Large]

Sounds like you newey trannies need to join the 20th century.

I've got greenslips over the phone and by the time I get to the rta...it's on their system

[FIGHTERMC]

Fuck ye guys have to go through alot of shit
to get a bike on the road,we don't even have to get the
bike tested here just pay the tax every year{57 euros}
cos the fine is bigger and its not worth getting done.

[chadams]

fimp, you poor bastard, last year I got my dr250 rego'd in sydney. now it had never been registered in the country before, was a 1998 model bike and I had no proof of where the bike had been for the last 8 years. The blue slip was a breeze, I had to book it in 2 days prior.... once I got the blue slip, I went straight to parra kawasaki and ask them for a green slip, they gave me one on the spot (it was just a plain bit of paper, with their numbers on it)... from their I went to the rta, with my hand written receipt for the bike (in my hand writing), the blue slip, and the green slip I had just picked up. I filled in their bullshit form and they gave me plates on the spot. All in all it was about 4hours from getting the blue slip to getting the rego plates... I would put a complaint into fair trading saying they are discriminating against you cause you ride motor bikes...

Next time wear your "Satan is my Bitch" t-shirt or "G'day office put it on the tab" as I fine it speeds up the service you receive...

[fimpBIKES]

its not just that
EVERY TIME I DEAL WITH THESE FUCKERS THEY HAVE NO IDEA!!!!


when i bought the 250 bandit, just because it was from victoria they put me through the ringer. i even ended up having to go to a wiegh bridge and get a slip from there
this is a weigh bridge with 20 KILGRAM deviations
so i now have a 180kg 250 bandit...
it was like they had NEVER seen one of them in NSW????? retards, they SELL them freshly grey imported just down the road!


then there was the 1100 katana
which WAS previously registered in NSW, only a few months out of rego
just over the 3 months, so i had to go get a blueslip


no worries, i was on an annual leave day so i had plenty of spare time...
the blue slip bloke calls RTA tech department and they send through the data sheet for the model
everything is going peachy til the guy (old bloke, pretty helpful fella)
gets to the section that asks for the power of the bike
not on the data sheet....

a few calls to the RTA tech line, they cant help but will look it up

so he calls the RTA branch down the road and tells em im going to get a greenslip and then head over there, they say ok and they should have the info soon and can sort it out once i get there

got my greenslip and i wait FOR THREE HOURS in the rta branch just waiting for the power figure. the whole time im pissed off cos the whole reason that they need the power figure is cos of the new L-plater laws that take into account power/wieght ratio

i have told them OVER and OVER again that there is NO WAY that it is learner legal
but they need the figure

when it came it was way wrong, but i didnt give a shit and just went with it

now tell me, HOW MANY 1100 KATANA's ARE THERE IN NSW?!?!?!?
they were sold here FROM NEW
not even grey imports


seriously i think that anyone who works at the rta (especially the tech people) are complete fucking retards
or REALLY cunning bastards that are part of a secret government agenda to make people not use any vehicle older than 5 years that is modified in any way!


in fact, the only blue slip i ever had that went smoothly was the engine swap in the SV
and guess what? less that 5 years old!

i swear im onto something here

[zx12argh]

jeez...

here in qld I registered an 88 gpz900 that had been unregistered in nsw for 2 years. took it too a workshop who road worthied it and registered it. I just drove it home.

Move to qld mate, we got sunshine and a good deal less fuckwits.

That head light looks trick. How long before we see your other upgrades on the beastie

[HueyonaBlade]

Its a conspiracy! , In Vic its almost to easy to get rego'd , like QLD roadworthy papers and pay the rather large ethnic lady and you are riding away

[zx12argh]

quote:Originally posted by HueyonaBlade

Its a conspiracy! , In Vic its almost to easy to get rego'd , like QLD roadworthy papers and pay the rather large ethnic lady and you are riding away


Shit you you have to fuck a fat black chick to get your rego?

[fimpBIKES]

im willing to make that sacrifice at this point!!!

[Ed74mnd]

Hey fimp, just read the entire thread.. (long).
nice build on the bike, looks real nice.
strange you have so many probs rego'ing bike.
always remember to bring every scrap of paper with you, they always need it.
one time i rego'd a KLE500, they asked for a receipt and I didnt have one.

I walked out into the car park, made one up, rang the guy who sold it to me and asked for his licence no… walked in and presented them the receipt… the name didn’t match the previous owner but they rego’d it anyways… had a new engine and everything… I went to a bike wrecker to get the bluey tho… they usually know somebody dodgey.

whats happened with the Kat?

Cheers

Ed

[fimpBIKES]

kat is sitting there, waiting

TLR is now booked in for final inspection on monday morning
took long enough!



although the rta lady (once i had asked her about it)
mentioned that i need to get the inspection done, then instead of letting them rego it on the spot i would need to come back to newcastle RTA branch and do the rego there

otherwise i would get issued a plate at carrington and then get slapped with the transfer fee once i picked up my personalised one

so lucky i saw that one coming!



yeah, i have definitely learnt my lesson
i was simply doing what i was told, but they werent giving me all the info

so next time i will have a whole friggin suticase of EVERYTHING i could possibly imagine :D



and and my OTHER headlight unit is apparently through customs so it should turn up shortly

[fimpBIKES]

oh, here is a vid of the trickflasher in action
bought through our good buddy ben

BUY ONE, this is my favourite pattern

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v676/fimpbikes/th_2007_02_22Trickflasher.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v676/fimpbikes/?action=view&current=2007_02_22Trickflasher.flv)

[fimpBIKES]

is that the right way to link a vid si?

[Large]

Unless you can embed it...

Is that the old "Come And Get It" flash Conrad?

:D

[fimpBIKES]

you know it is mister! [:X]


how cool is the video how it gets that line on the screen when it flashes
its like some samurai anime thingy

[Large]

:)

You been watching the Avatar on ABC?

[Gix11]

quote:Originally posted by fimpBIKES

is that the right way to link a vid si?


Its as good a way as any until I fuck about with it and then get caught out by the syupid bloody symbol in the URL that splits the link. You might have to repost it mate as now it won't link unless you copy and paste it.

is the worlds longest topic nearly finished...i rekon it looked better when you 1st bought it fimp.Too many hours spanking a dead monkey for you Sir.I have a special trophy just for you.

Come on Davo, you've left you're run for 'most obnoxious member' a bit too late this year.

Even you can't make up for the lack of effort up till now.

[fimpBIKES]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/266730637159309.jpg



sorted

Fimp, have you modified you're number plate?

Tried to change the number?

[chopiesel]

i think it says fimp with the m on its side

Yeah, but doesn't quite work does it. :D

Wonder what PC plonker thinks about it?

I priced out custom plates here in the ACT a couple of years ago ( I want 85.900 for the Geepz) and the prices were farking ridiculous, talk about a bunch of thieves.

[chopiesel]

yeh its 2 grand the fuckers

If it's supposed to be 'self-government' in the ACT, why are all the 'self's' getting so badly ripped off by the polly vermin?

[fimpBIKES]

yeah, sorta says FIMP

but not quite, oh well
best one i could find available on the system and its skinnier than a regular one and it aint bright yellow :D


in more fantastic news
i stopped at a servo on the way to work and it was dripping out fluid from the rad
i think the left end tank is coming off!!

oh well, just called Race Radiators in dandenong and they can have it done within a week (plus post)
so if i send it off tomorrow it gives me time to sort some other shit out

chin up

[Gix11]

That tail end has to die fimp. It looks like one of those scooter jobs.

[chopiesel]

my gixer 600 tail came in today, ill post some inspirational pics later for him, and im gona paint my tiller hump matt black and bring it to dubsville.

[HueyonaBlade]

quote:Originally posted by fimpBIKES

yeah, sorta says FIMP

but not quite, oh well





oh well, just called Race Radiators in dandenong and they can have it done within a week (plus post)
so if i send it off tomorrow it gives me time to sort some other shit out




Those guys do yhe best work and its at a reasonable price [^]

[fimpBIKES]

its in the mail, should get there on friday

i have a few mates coming over for a drunken TLR working bee on saturday
shall make sure that the camera is loaded :D

[fimpBIKES]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/684563317110733.jpg