The exhaust is coming along nicely. I will just be doing a simple under engine can for now.





Also I have decided to put the ignition embedded in the cowl. It was very long and I couldn't find anywhere else. Plus I actually think it is cool back there, but maybe I will be the only one.

 

Kind of looks like a Saab, with the ignition switch in the console.

Good idea with the exhaust, should be really light.

 

VTS you weren't kidding the shock is great. Props to VTS guys he is a great seller!

 

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Well initial trial and error is done on the shock mounting location time to weld her up and road test.

 

My swing arm brace is going to have to go under rather than on top of the swing arm. Not enough room up there with the shock and all.

 

So here are some more pics of the exhaust and of the brace. Some things are just tacked in place so don't panic. I need to remove the rear wheel so I can weld up the swing arm. Then paint it. The exhaust is done other then a few dents I will blend out hopefully, I have a feeling the exhaust is love it or hate it, but it is very light and keeps the look of the bike very compact which was the goal with this one for me. After that it is on to the details left undone. Brake lines back on and new fluid. Shock fluid replaced Wiring to finish blinkers to install all little stuff that I probably won't post then first ride yehaw.

 

The exhaust looks good.

But I guarantee you will need to rejet with those K&Ns. I tried a K&N in my '78 with the stock airbox, and went back to the stock element a week later, because it had a big mid range flat spot. That was with 2 into 1 exhaust that it had when I bought it.. At least the carbs are sitting right there staring at you, unlike on the VTR. Rejetting would take about 10 minutes per carb, including R & R.

 

I expected to need to fiddle with jetting, hopefully not too much of a nightmare but you are right the carbs will be very easy to pull.

 

love where you're going with this. i will say that going through all this work it's a shame to see you stick with the stock seat. i liked what you were doing before.

also, that exhaust is very much like what i'd like to do with my cafe cx500 when i get around to it. a few questions if you don't mind.
- what can is that and what are it's measurements?
- how much ground clearance do you have with it?
- could you click a pic from the side at a distance so i can see who the under-engine can looks?
- i've never done headers before... where did you get the piping, what size is it and what is the material?

where are you going to put all your electrical and battery?

really can't wait to see this completed.

 

LOL the stock seat thing was totally a joke just to point out the hilarity in how huge it is.

The can is a resonator found on alot of Audi's. I used the stock headers but changed the directions they point. I also ended up using a few elbow from another exhaust that happened to have the same material as the stock headers. Ground clearance is still good, probably seven inches to the can so plenty still. The size of the additional tubing is 1 1/2 in OD. I am going to put the batteries anywhere where they are almost invisible to the eye. I have a few options here but I will need to fiddle most likely. The electrical bits go under the seat and the R/R goes under the cowl.

 

I must have scared everyone away...


Ok guys I am sorry, I cut up another classic...you can come out and harass me for how horrible this thing is turning out.

Truth, in an age of complexity I find myself searching for the meaning behind mechanical life. Everywhere I look there are mechanical things so complex mechanics now are trained to work on only one car brand sometimes even being an expert of only one model. Why, in our ability to create things can we not engineer within it simplicity? I don't know myself for sure but money is definitely behind this issue and that is what angers me. This is why I find myself tirelessly working on old things, grease always left there between my callused fingerprints. I try to wash them spotless but the black never really breaks free. After a few weeks of not wrenching they are clean again as new skin has replaced the old. I see it as my reminder I have been away too long. My red box of tools calls me, the dust forming on its lid as an outrage to my absence. With the completion of my cb project I found myself feeling empty. There was nothing for my mind to wander to. No crazy ideas I could bring to life. Just fantasies of future projects, the allure of the unknown, maybe in part my personal purgatory. A place where things could be, and at the same time not be. The untried and the unsolvable it haunts me and the only answer to it is to pursue it to go for my dreams. My dreams are of iron and steel and my hands know how to form them, somehow my hands know what to do all I have to do is listen to them. It would be a sin for me not to use my hands, a crime to the one who imparted this trade to me. There will be more, there has to be now I am beyond the point of turning back and it inspires me.


Don't get too caught up in my ramblings .