zRoYz Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 (edited) Hi all, I've been a little quiet due to building & playing with the new CBR1000RR track bike which has replaced the VFR750 track bike. Dan sent me a pm about his VTEC fork swap so thought all the more info can only be a good thing. Again my plans have been foiled because I was going to rebuild the VFR750 to become my road bike & again sell off my VTEC. I striped the RC51 front off my VTEC write up here http://www.vfrdiscussion.com/forum/index.p...c=24867&hl= to reinstall standard gear for bike sale which didn't happen because I like it to much to sell for nothing as there just to cheep brand new. Pic of VTEC with RC51 front end I have bought parts to install a 2005 R1 front end to the VFR750 but it will now be going on the VTEC with some extra bling because I can :thumbsup: The forks are a little special due to custom valving for road use without duel compression & some other tricks but I'm a test pilot for the designer & at the moment am still to try them out (these valves are not designed like everything else which are made for racing & adapted for road use, these are designed for road use from scratch). Parts list so far to start the ball rolling is as follows: R1 2005 forks (custom valving) R1 2005 calipers R1 2005 rotors R1 2005 axle & spacers R1 2005 wheel (5 spoke so good match VFR) CBR954 lower & upper triple clamps CBR954 tapered roller bearings Convertibars I still have to buy front guard, front master cylinder & make some 3mm spacers to start installing. The difference between the R1 wheel spacing & the CBR954 is 6mm, that means you need one 3mm spacer added to wheel location side of fork & between each rotor to space out to locate center in radial calipers. Edited September 4, 2007 by zRoYz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shayne Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 Good luck with the swap. How come you didn't just put the RC51 front end back on it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AB-Oz Posted September 4, 2007 Share Posted September 4, 2007 Coz he sold it to another mate of ours, who now has a FrankenBlackbird Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zRoYz Posted September 4, 2007 Author Share Posted September 4, 2007 Coz he sold it to another mate of ours, who now has a FrankenBlackbird yeh & he wont give it back :-( I'm still holding out to see what Mr Honda does 08 the 750 might still get the R1 forks & the VTEC might be traded :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer NYMBYSS Posted September 10, 2007 Member Contributer Share Posted September 10, 2007 sounds cool go for it ,i want to see the finished work !!!!! :beer: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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