mrmatt

Two Brothers used to make a high left exit exhaust. I have a full low left exit system on my '92. They don't make it anymore but if you can locate a set of used Two Bros headers, it wouldn't be difficult to get an S-pipe made to hook up to a canister. You will lose the footpegs. Just keep searching on ebay for 'vfr 750 exhaust', I was doing this almost daily and finally found the TBR headers for $100. It wasn't even advertised as a left exit system so I bet it wasn't found by a lot of other searches. The 3rd and 4th are so similar that I think all of the exhaust is interchangeable.

Started some work on the electrical side. I found a 15 pin connector for the gauges that will save a lot of space over the ones I had before. After getting my hand used to soldering I finally got all 14 wires done, and then slipped some shrink wrap tubing around each. I'll wrap and tape the whole bundle before it goes on. Now I have to shorten all of these I also got this in the mail today

Well, 10 months after promising to fit the RC45 bodywork, I have an initial stab at the front fiberglass DSC02077.JPG DSC02078.JPG DSC02079.JPG DSC02080.JPG I had to chop a lot of the lower off because it wouldn't fit around the exhaust and the clutch cover seems to stick out into the right side, so I also had to trim a little off the lip (hope I don't have to do any more). The kickstand on the left also requires a lot of trimming to get around, but I'm pretty close and just need a little bit more to get it. I'm using the two brackets that are already there (the ones just below your knees) as an anchor for one of the three holes that join the upper and lower, and then lining up the upper to match the angle of the frame. It looks to be really close, I did notice that the body does not quite reach the front wheel when viewed from the side, but I do not think I can move it any more forward as it will come away from the line of the frame. I also think I'll need some new clip ons that just go straight out, the 954 ones may be too high.

Very nice, good job with the subframe and integrating the tail into the tank. Is the 916 rim a 6 or 5.5 inch rim?

Bike's looking really good, put some more brakes on it before you ride though:), have you gotten all your fairing mounting points figured out? Also, what rearsets did you find there?

Got the muffler on and then promptly repacked it (actually didn't have any packing, was a little loud for me) DSC02073.JPG DSC02074.JPG I wasn't sure about the low mount mid pipe at first, but now I think it looks good enough to keep it on until I find someone to make a high mount one for me. I made the bracket out of some aluminum bar stock I had around my garage, two bends and two 8mm holes and its done, might do something more elaborate later

After several months of stagnation (couple of trips mixed in) I pick up my conversion project again I found a left exit system on ebay off of a 3rd gen, wasn't specially listed so I'm pretty sure the person parting the bike out didn't know what he had. Got it for $120 shipped (!) Step 1: remove center stand by pulling the spring off with a pair of locking plyers Step 1a: bash knuckles on the closest floor/exhaust pipe when plyers slip off Step 1b: curse Step 1c: take dremel and cut spring Step 1d: finish removing center stand Step 2: take stock system off (felt heaver than the new one, should have weighed them) Step 2a: shear two out of three of the rear header bolts Step 2b: curse Step 3: install new system :mad: I still need to get a taller mid pipe, the one on it is a low exit, and find a carbon fiber muffler (or any lightweight one, any suggestions?) Now that the exhaust is taken care of, nothing is stopping me from fitting the new bodywork, except that it needs to be trimmed and made to fit. I think I'll have to make a cut out for the side stand, but the exhaust seems to fit above the longer belly pan, the large stock collector used to get in the way. I also picked up a really nice set of dual headlights from aztec8 ($178 ), they needed to be spaced apart a little more but it was no problem I didn't want to give in and get these, but they're enclosed and should be easy to install, rather than trying to adapt a CBR bracket that was made to mount to the upper fairing instead of the frame. The brackets to mount the lights and gauges will still be tricky though.

Great project, I'm also watching on the edge of my seat Also a fan of the Z (have a 300 in the garage that doesn't get out as much as it used to), I think it would be a great platform although heavy in the frame compared to a mini, there's also as much room as you would need (putting in the Corvette V8 is relatively common isn't it?), and it looks awesome But would running both outputs to a common shaft increase the torque on your transmissions? I guess if you have one piston from each motor firing at the exact same time it would divide the torque into the two, but if it's staggered at all then the first would bear the full weight I would think

My 750 was missing a right mirror when I bought it so I picked up a cheap one on ebay but it was terrible, the mirror was so wavy that I could only tell that there was morphing shapes behind me. I got some 2000 mirrors from HDL ($70 ea, I think the 6th gen are cheaper) and they are much better, I would stay away from the cheap ebay ones.