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The Phantom

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  1. Sad to hear, this place has been one of if not the best automotive site on the net. I took The Phantom off the road in 2003, joined here in 2005 (after 7 years on the Big List) and The Phantom is still not back on the road 😆 But in that time have acquired three more VFRs, one of which does actually get ridden. Thanks Miguel and everyone else for everything... I'm Murray Duncan on the FB groups.
  2. Great to see this build documented in one place 👌
  3. Some of the OzVFR guys were running a communal 4th Gen trackbike a few years ago, and decided to experiment with ram air - using the ducts above each front indicator. Around Eastern Creek (now Sydney Motorsport Park) the bike simply would not rev past 6-7k, so they ripped it all out and went back to keeping the litre bikes honest. If you look at Kawasaki ram air you'll see that they include pitot tubes to tune the intake, so that the carb runs at the same air pressure as the airbox, I imagine that without adding something like that you will not do much better than the OzVFR guys.
  4. Interesting topic, thanks for sharing. You're doing a great job for not a computer guy. I take it the goal is to reduce weight but still keep the bike looking as close to stock as possible? Look into having a lexan copy of the headlight glass made up... you'd be astonished at just how heavy that headlight assembly is. The rear subframe is also seriously lardy, I replaced the entire rear bodywork/seat unit on a 4th Gen with one from a 2002 Yamaha R6. The entire Yamaha tail (subframe, seat, undertray etc.) weighs less than just the bare VFR subframe. An aluminium copy would take a lot of work, though. You could also replace some of the metal pipes in the cooling system with plastic. I've got an electric waterpump for that 4th Gen but it requires a digital controller to get the best efficiency, so there wasn't much of a weight saving there - but the engine now no longer will have to drive the stock pump, so reduced parasitic power loss there, the hole in the block where the stock pump drive went is blocked by a welch plug I happened to have lying around from a Ford Windsor V8 kit.
  5. Hey only three and a half years later to the next update. Not much has changed going by the pic. But lots of things have changed. A 2015 R1 front wheel is now resident in the workshop, nearest thing to the 848 10Y rear wheel I could find that was an easy fit - straight bolt-on, 2004 R1 discs fit, axle fits. The SebSpeed c;lear clutch cover has received a couple of additions to spruce it up. All other work not shown in pic, but the bodywork is seriously underway at the moment.
  6. I have that helmet (Shark Spartan carbon), best helmet I've ever owned.
  7. A member here was looking into doing this some years back, pretty sure they were trying to fit GSX-R throttle bodies to a 4th Gen. IIRC the topic petered out without the motor ever firing up.
  8. It's not what you've got, it's what you do with it, Chris... My trick is to fit smaller bodywork, which makes it look bigger
  9. Hi John I have a Triumph eccentric in my 4th Gen swingarm, with an 848 Marchesini. I had the axle shortened and re-threaded as it was around 30mm too long for the Duc wheel. The original Triumph two-piece nut/collar fits, and so does the aftermarket alloy Ducati one-piece nut/collar I bought for about $50 off ebay. They are the same thread.
  10. No thanks, I'll wait till you tell me which ones actually work and then buy those
  11. Great choice Rob! One of those rare motorcycles where form really does follow function.
  12. Nice score - it has some good stuff on it. And nice work with Photoshop too, what you've envisaged is realistic and you're already well on your way. WackenSS mentioned some performance mod ideas - the reality is that those ideas are almost all you can do unless money is no object. But he also did throw 'weight' into the equation and the very nature of a SF VFR means that a lot of weight is ditched - and that's where you get your additional performance.
  13. The Phantom

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    Looks incredibly like Australia!
  14. What sub frame you using? Bitsnpieces from the 98-> R1? 2002 R6, the four frame spars come close to the VFR main frame subframe mounts but need to be shortened and modified. At some point I'll put a pic up showing the mods required. The seat matches the VFR tank shape perfectly and the entire tail unit complete with battery weighs less than just the bare VFR subframe...
  15. I hope Ray was ok about wiping my drool off it So, did you raise the possibility of Ray making it two from two?
  16. It's from my 1994 4th Gen.
  17. Hi Shaun, is it the one at Western Motorcycles? regards Murray
  18. Width = 430mm Height = 180mm Depth = 45mm Distance between upper mounting tabs = 270mm Front view of radiator: Rear view of radiator:
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