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Well thanks everyone who kicked in these last two days I was able to renew the software license that expired and thus upgrade to the latest security update. Thanks

In the process of installing a new chain & sprockets. Discovered that mine is loose. It hasn't moved past the stake, but it was only a matter of time. Don't want that assembly coming apart! Need to put this on the gas stop checklist.

Thanks Mike you beat me to it... its true that no one looses money investing in Mr. Honda's exotic race bred V4s... Blessed by HRC in the name of the Father... ($15,000) in the name of the Son... ($27,500) and the Holy Smokes... ($184,000)

That's how I've always interpreted the manual description and set mine. More vacuum (= a minus in the settings relative to no. 1 the base setting) raises the Mercury in the tube. Hoping I understood it correctly too!

These videos of Chief Joseph and Beartooth from my 2011 trip ought to give you some incentive 😉

Front fender done - donor aprilia rs125. Matte black for now but might be permanent. I think it's a nice addition to the all glossy black fairing. Saved around 100g. and added a bucket load of modernization. As a bonus it's shaped in a way that send air upwards almost straight in the intake of the rotrex and might help with pushing air through the radiators. Next up is wraping up a lot of small things like wiring and putting her clothes back on, some heat shielding and trying to get the rapid bike map to behave. I reached out to yaman but afaik I have to drive the bike to get another chance at adjusting a fresh base map. So 200 miles with afr 11.1 at cruise could be to much. Hoping for another solution. To adjust what I want I need to buy the RB SW at over 400 USD 😬

I have a carbon heat shield, which I backed with alloy from a disposable baking tray ! This is an early pic from 2012 with the old exhaust. You can see the Blue brake hose, goes over the cushion & into the square hole in left side of the swingarm. Comes out the drain hole underneath just in front of the eccentric hub to the VFR400/750 rear caliper ! I fitted a bleed screw banjo bolt to the M/C to make bleeding simple. This is it from 2016 with TBR exhaust & mini reservoir on the M/C.

This is the final product of the rear brake. Happy with it but I absolutely hate the brake pipe! I see no other solution as of now, so let's see when revision 2 comes around. Would be nice with integrated reservoir too, again revisions... It feels more and more like I'm making a protype and this is R/D. I was able to hide a lot of everything behind the footrest, got rid of the horrible hoses and brake light switch wire going everywhere. I don't want to cut of the heat shield mount on the footrest before I have testet that my pants will survive, so currently around 400g gone 👏 the brown paint will stay on for now and is due to me welding material on the lower part of the rest so I could have a threaded base for the brake switch and the banjos. I absolutely love the design of the footrest on the 5th gen so I would like to keep them as long as possible! It sure is a tight fit with the CBR caliper. I can not see a dual piston caliper ever making its place here with the 5spokes! Breakeline going to the banjo.

Rear brake done. Mint cbr600f4 parts, 25 usd from eBay! Well within budget an 735grams lighter including the "spacer" Honda put between brake disc and axle. Of course I had to offset everything because that plate builds some. Turned out nice, and as usual - welds don't fit my "OEM look" style so its ground and shaped. I know it's not meant being for being upside down which means that bleeding is a biatc and the brake force pushes on the pad pin instead of the caliper holder, but its not often used and it will have to do as stage one of my brake upgrade.

So mowing forward. Rapidbike, youtube with LSU.4.9x2, Series regulator with homemade mounting plate, rewired with 40a fuse and lithium battery is now in its final location. I only have to fabricate a mount for the rapidbike ECU but I could not resist firing up and see what could be done to the MAP. After guesstimating some fuel cells based on my custom PCIII map and what Dan sent me as test maps before the custom one, sadly as I suspected all along, the rapidbike does not allow big enough numbers! Negative 10 or positive 30 fuel trim is all I'm allowed to adjust. This results in afr 13.2:1 on idle and reving send it down in the 11 area. Before putting -10 in the 0 column i had AFR 12.1 on idle! This is no good so I am inspecting what can be done. I am certain that the youtune will not be able to add another positive 40ish to already maxed columns. Also, and did this not occur to me before now (huge facepalm) rapidbike has linked 1-4 and 2-3 which is great for the vfrd headers but my plan was running front and rear on separate MAP for obvious reason. Darn it... Should have gone 4 bungs in production. But it's good to hear her fire again 😁 The PCIII trim are negative 40's and positive 80's as reference. is there room for the RSV4 1100 engine?

The width of the triples is the same as the CBR, but the offset is different (CBR is less) resulting in different trail numbers, everything else being the same. They share the same width and offset as 90-97 VFRs and 90-96 CBR1000F. At the time I thought I needed the 88/89 upper triple to match the lower, but I could have used something a little nicer looking from the later VFR. I don't run an ignition switch on this bike, so I wasn't concerned with mounting or steering lock pin engagement.

A tiny big update. I wanted to do this for a long time but there is not alot of options for keeping this priced within my budget - untill I realized this was something you could buy as bolt on mod for ducatis. So one week later my panigale bolt on cover arrived and it turned out perfect. I wanted make this as low profile as possible so I had to move the filler neck inwards. The ring is welded on the outside and the neck from the inside. This makes me able to inspect the clutch and watch it rotate with ease! You see it's kind of a hassle to remove the clutch cover as the supercharger pulley is glued, the belt needs tensioning and of course the right fairing needs to come of. Now it's a 10 minute job to change the clutch. If someone know how to remove the text on the anodized ring id like to know how without having to re-anodize the whole ring. It's not engraved and it's on top of the anodozing.

Let's start! I'm jumping a bit back and forth to get an overview as to what is lacking and what needs attention other than what I already know. Let's start suspension and exhaust. Matris suspension upgrade done, no issues. I'm sure this will cure the seasickness that comes with a 24 year old bike! Vtr1000 lowers replaced the vfr's and cbr954 brake setup will be put in its place. Not to mention springs are now Viking sized instead of Japanese lightweights. Both suspension and brakes will be a "temporary" upgrade while figuring which way I want to go later. There is a pic of one alternative I have collected last year at the bottom. The headers installation was not that straight forward ( pun coming) There could be more straightness (pun inserted) added to this project. Every piece of pipe/flange had to be forced in place. I wonder how that jig was produced... The welds are not that great (looking) and it has NOT been purged while welding. A great upgrade to flow and longevity - but could have flowed better with purging. You can clearly see how intrusive the old gaskets are on flow. Great to get rid of! One of my priorities on this round is to save weight on every piece i touch and remove unwanted features. I cut all i could of the centerstand/shock Mount and binned the center stand. I never used it and never will. 1.95 kg gone - I wish it was almost 2 kg removed from higher up on the bike but it's hp/kg focus. More numbers will follow as the Winter diet continues!

Yes! As you might have guessed, im re-starting this adventure again. Updates will now follow semi-regurlaly again. Im sorry for the silence, but i seem to loose more and more of my free time as age progresses. Cheers to those who have helped keeping this forum alive and to the man himself! I was sure i had to start a new thread on vfrworld...

A pic from the other day. I have since installed the upper cowl with lights and am just waiting to get in the paint booth to finish the right side panel, then it will be done.

Someone would... https://www.classic.com/a/mecum-las-vegas-2019-rW9lLn9/lots/1988-honda-rc30-nXldYMn https://iconicmotorbikeauctions.com/auction/1990-honda-rc30-with-3-miles/