trjerm

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Its pretty fun, was built as a AFM / AMA open superbike racer , than they changed the rules to allow 1000cc's , so I cut a hole in the fairing for a headlight and it's a potent backroad weapon

I've got 2 4th gens, 1 w/ GSXR front end & 6 piston PM calipers squeazing 330mm full floating iron rotors and fox racing shock in the rear and I can't use it to its potential on the roads, whereas the other on has a stock front end w/ gold valves and a penske shock and its definately good enough for hard street riding (riding @ the pace). I have approx 1/8" chicken strips on the stock VFR rear and about 1/4" on the front and go thru my Pilot Powers about every 2500 miles. On the modified one , I run PP 2ct's and go thru them about every 1500-2000 miles and it seems to be harder on the front tire & no chicken strips on the rear(190 on RC 45 wheel). I feel for street riding a stock gold valved front end w/ a decent shock is your most bang for the buck. See my gallery pictures for pics of both.

I'll let you know, I picked up a crashed vfr 94 that had Pilot Road 3's on it but the front was destroyed as was about everything else except rear wheel and engine., so I put both on my 4th gen and ordered a PR3 front ($143). Till now I've run PP's front and rear,but the rears normally toast @ 15-1800 mi and the front toast @ 2500-3000, but they stick great. I ride nothing but twisty back roads and tickle my toes on the majority of turns. Would love to get 3000+ out of the PR3's

Hello, I got mine the cheap way, I bought an uncompleted racer off Ebay for 3K and put another $1500 or so into it to make it back into a streetbike. I think I'd look @ Beasley composites and get the street upper, lower and the solo tail($600+s/h). The GSXR front end, Kosmans triples, Brakes, Etc came off a GSXR race bike, these guys put between $18-20K into this build($6-8K in eng), before the rules changed to allow 100cc fours to race in superbike , @ that point they stopped working on this and started building a CBR 929 RR to race. (another 20K project that was totalled on its 1st track day). Anyway I think your heading in the right direction w/ that 97. If the stock plastics are in decent shape you could sell them and make enough to buy the Beasleycomposite race glass. Hopefully the 97 has aftermarket exhaust if not then just buy a slip on(High mount) and look @ the numerous post on USD fork conversions(what triples etc) Good Luck and have fun

I've seen a few RC45 replica's on this site and I think most if not all were built on 3rd or 4th gen. VFR's. The 4th gens frame is almost identical to the RC45. Mine has an USD fork from a GSXR, Kosman Adjustable triple, steering head has been steepened by 1 deg., frames been lazer trued and polished, much eng work, 2 bros full exhaust, 49 state carbs w/ jet kit, RC45 rear wheel, Airtech 94-96 RVF750 race glass, and @ present is 100 lbs lighter than stock VFR.