DEI exhaust wrap silicon spray. I used the whole dang can.


And this is called procrastinating my undertail radiator:

 

That gas cap looks really sharp! Nice

 

Putting the bike away for a couple of weeks as I head home to family and take care of odds'n'ends. Thought I'd take a pick of where I'm at now before I cover it all up and wheel it to it's little storage corner. So far every piece that has come off the bike has been scrubbed clean, repainted, powdercoated, or replaced. Even the bolts I'm scrubbing off the overspray from the PO. Torqued to spec where needed, replaced any gasket that I uncovered and have done all the upkeep modes that I know about... Amazed at what you can learn doing these things, and very appreciative of all the help so far on this forum. Had no idea that so many people would be willing to give so much good advice out when I joined this thing.

For now, gonna chew on what's next to do and am very open to feedback and suggestions and maybe tips on what I've missed

How I was riding her:


Where she's at now (sorry for the busy background):

 

Got back in yesterday! Had a couple of goodies waiting for me- the main one being a carbon fiber front fender. I didn't have one for my setup and the carbon fiber ones from china were as cheap as anything I could find. Problem is, it was from China... so fitament issues ensued. First pic is of where the rear mounting hole ended up. No, it doesn't rotate in, and when aligned with the front forks this is where it needed to be...



It also should have been on the outside of the mount, but hey, what could I expect. Went to sleep, had a dream about the motorcycle, and woke up knowing exactly what I was going to do to fix it. Picked up some aluminum and make a couple of brackets, cut the old tabs off of the fender and added new holes and no one is the wiser!





Now I'm working on mounting a gixxer puller fan on that radiator and try to tackle that big ole mountain once and for all.

Edit: Photos added

 

It looks like maybe that fender is for GSXR Showa forks. It appears to be exactly like the one on my bike. Maybe?

 

Haha- could be.. the rear tabs definitely weren't in the correct position to the point where it couldn't have been a manufacturing error.

Whatever it was, it is now a front fender for CBR 929rr front forks on a '98 naked superhawk with a tad extra unsprung weight just to annoy the weight junkies

 

you make nice bike boy! I like it.

 

Why the manual on/off? Wouldn't you want the fans to go on and off when the bike thought it necessary, or is manual on/off fans jargon for what I just said?

Other than that, hella cool idea to mount the radiators under the tail. Totally expose that beautiful motor... Going to put a turbo on her aren't ya?

 

Wow, I was commenting on earlier pages bro, you've outdone yourself. That thing is just amazing! I hope one day once I get mine finished that it looks half as good. Kudos ol chap!
Polishing in my opinion doesn't look good on anything unless you're a chrome guy. Chrome guys just like chrome and I get that, just liking something because you do. However, it's my advice that if you're not a chrome guy that you rethink that one and go back to the powder coating route... Wonder if you could anodize a frame, that would be dope as hell. Gold anodized or honda red anodized or even black anodized, or a black anodized frame with a gold anodoized rc51 swingarm and red anodized subframe for your new carbon fiber tail? heheheheheheh

 

Yeah... I was trying to make it more complicated than it is- I was thinking I would run a fan all the time (it made sense when I was thinking about it I swear!) but will just use the bike's sensor to switch it. I'll use another automatic switch to kick the second fan in after the temp gets to a higher level. Most of this is a straight knock-off of Kai Ju's radiator mod (with a few changes of my own of course)

Supercharger first, then turbo if that's not enough

I was seriously considering anodizing the frame- You're noticing my streetfighter mindset just keeps flipping around. I'm not really a chrome guy either, but when I saw that I could it got to me thinking that I should. Anodizing places are a little harder to come by, though, a little more expensive, take quite a bit more prep from what I understand, and I would have had a much harder time matching colors of different metals. So I went with powdercoat, and that finish is still astounding me! I keep dropping and scraping against it and there is no indication that it didn't come out of the oven yesterday!

 

And took care of other things today. A lot of these things the veterans on here have seen day in and day out, but gotta document it for my own entertainment!

Old R/R connector (burn baby burn):

And the new setup, quite easy to do once I started. I didn't have a heat gun so I just held my soldering iron close to the shrink tube to get it to form:


Had to make a decision today to ditch my efforts on the VTR cluster mod... the cost/benefit just didn't justify going further with it! Ah, well, no $ lost, just a good amount of time gone and the sting of a project that beat me

Junkyard had about 4 of these so I grabbed one. The guy was gonna charge me $25 less for one of the dirty ones... I'm thinking, "I've cleaned every single damn other thing on this bike that I'd probably pay more for a dirty one because it would feel right" Saved me $25, he did. Here it is, cleaned (CBR F4i Gauges:


It's so dang small!

And got the subframe painted with rattle can engine enamel- so now everything that I put on it will be final and I won't have to come back off.

 

Actually got the radiator mounted today, and yes it's held in with zip ties. Don't worry. I used two. per. side.

I am comfortable with how it sits in there- upper fan just bumps the seat and plenty of lower clearance for the tire hugger to find the full range of the shock. Both fans are mounted. Forgot to take a pic of the lower one, but it's there. Nice to have it there to start playing with the hosing. I will eventually mount this more permanently, but right now I want to get the thing rolling. That's a piece of dense closed cell foam against the frame, to keep the ride Cadillac fresh.





Wiring harness is messy. It's been played with before. I took that thing full of wires in the middle and just cut them and mashed them all together and taped them. Figured they were all going to the same place anyway, and all those white caps were ugly

The thing in the middle is what I edited.

To make the thing in the top:


This forum is terrible for me. In trying to solve one issue, I learn about more that I want to fix. I just learned about adjusting the TPS to factory spec rather than EPA compliance. Plus, before the build, all I had done was the CCT's so I'm not going to notice each individual improvement. Boooooooo! What a terrible hobby. Heh.

 

Looking beautiful man! I love looking at those heads shiny yellow like that, SUPER bad *** build dude. keep up the good work, don't worry too much about feeling every change as you make it along the way, riding that monster down the street on the rear wheel will provide you all the good feeling you need for a life time.... SICK.

 

1/3 of the hosing is done! Nice to get something like that started, b/c sometimes it's the hardest part. Kai Ju put a VFR overfill bottle in this little spot and I actually got one but couldn't make it fit the way that I wanted to.


I've seen these done all over on the streetfighter forums, and think that they're pretty cool so made my own overfill using a stainless water bottle. Most people make them out of the aluminum drink cans- monster energy, bud light, etc, but I saw this at REI and thought it would be perfect. Pulled the drink spout, routed a hose in with a 90 degree elbow connector and made a siphon straw.



And I think I'm going to put it right here:


Picked up this hugger (to protect that undertail radiator) from t-dogg awhile back and the chip in it has been bugging me the whole time. I should have cleaned it up awhile ago cause I feel much better about it now:



Thoughts on tank/tail colors? I'm thinking silver would look cool.

 

Thanks for the props, man! I'm excited b/c this thing is getting close... the end is in sight (I think!). The whole time I've been riding my Shadow too, so switching from cruiser back to sportbike is definitely gonna give me that Superhawk "**** eatin' grin" again.