Hobie1dog

hope you heal quickly.....are you studying to be a surgeon? :goofy:

Still in primer, but have chosen the colors......blue and silver like the new cbr600rr models....now have to strip the red paint off of the stock 97 gas tank and prep it before we can shoot the paint on everything. Also still need to find a dual outlet exhaust tip so that the undertail piece can be cut out for the exhaust opening. I think Nick might try some stock bars back on it and end up taking the Convertibars off of it. He likes a lower handlebar position than I do...young whippersnappers. Boy, everyone at the last Ride on the Ridge event I went to, loved the small PIAA driving lights I have in the vents. They all commented on how nice it was to look back in the mirrors and have no doubt as to where I was in the group. I had several people say that I should have decals made up that say VCR on it. I had alot of positive comments on the sound of the exhaust on it too. I've grown to really like the sound of it. I called today to find out if I could still get the same deal on the Micron 240mm Shorty Ultralight Titanium muffler. It would also fit nicely up under my 93 I'm getting and then expose that nice 8 spoke wheel and remove 13lbs of weight in the process too. :thumbsup:

You're not going riding on that rear tire are you? <_<

Well, my son's friend who is buying his CBR600 is getting anxious to get it and ride it, so this way both of them can get the bikes they want.....I'm old now anyway.....have a little more patience than those young, snot-nosed, know-it-all whipper-snappers. :goofy: The old saying, "If it's a good deal today, it'll be a better deal tomorrow". All the old VFR's are going gradually down in price as they naturally do, and since I like the 3rd and 4th Gen bikes the best, I just need to wait around until the right deal comes up. People are crashing bikes as we speak. Everytime you get in a hurry, you lose money.

Update: #1 hard drive in my PC crashed so I lost all ability to post any pictures until I get it fixed. #2 I sold the bike to my son...Electrodynamic ...never ceases to amaze me the things you do for your kids ....We will post up pictures of the undertail and of the final paint job. Now, I have been looking far and wide with no sucess to find another VFR to do another drastic modification to. I have ideas on using a different tail section but think that I will stick with the F4i front end as easy as it is to convert over. I have been looking over different front body kits but none seem to look as if they will fit as easily as the F4i. I initially looked at the bodywork kit for the Ducati 1098. I'm still snooping around. I called APE racing and they said they do not make any bodywork, so the picture from the Tokyo bike show is something completely different. Anyway, the search continues.....there isn't a 3rd or 4th Gen bike within a 1000miles of here that hasn't been sold already. Every listing I've called about is SOLD. Looks like the old Viffers are still a hot commodity. :thumbsup:

Well, I did ride close to 1000 miles last weekend total at the TexasMac event. I took pictures of my new speedo, but I just developed problems on my home PC (bad power supply I think) so as soon as I get those issues resolved, then I'll be able to put up some pictures of it in action. I didn't have any luck finding the APE bodywork either. Can you post up the link to their website?

Sorry, Marty. I knew it would be a bad idea to bring this up Larry: let me know if it works. I won't be "changing horses in the middle of the stream" on the F4i project, but I may try something crazy later. Nothing like coming up with new ideas I can't use! Foto: Nice work - I'm joining the other thread, now, too Why couldn't you guys do all these conversions last year so I could just follow along instead of learning the hard way (worse yet, paying someone else to do it)??? Hey, No Problem....I think it's a good idea to snoop around and look at all the different fiberglas pieces that we can end up putting on our bikes. I am already looking a alternate rear tail sections to use. I think Sharkskinz fiberglas makes ones like the MV Augusta tail section, that would look cool. The guy on here that posted about pictures from the Tokyo M/C show , had a great fiberglas front and rear sections called APE bodywork which looks better than the CBR stuff. This just gives us new ideas. :thumbsup: I'm sure I'll be selling the complete rear section to put on something different within the next year.

Sorry Marty - I blew the damn thing at just about everyone near me - sorry you missed it. Ok - I'll load up and head back. Be there in about 20 hours....... :thumbsup: I figured you would come back at the drop of a hat.

Darn it Ken: Nick and I were talking at TexasMac about how I wanted to hear a Stebel horn sometime but didn't know who had one. I wanted a demo.

Thanks for your support. I hate to tell you, but......this project may go on for some time as I am looking into putting GSXR or R1 forks on it this summer as well as different wheels front and back. I will be making upper fairing supports this week as I found out that without them, the wind pushes the upper cowl back so far that the windscreen is flattened back against the clutch and brake master cylinders(at speeds above 85 or so). <_< My new brake master cylinder will take care of a lot of the clearance issues as it is 1/2 the size of the big stock unit, much lower profile(is flush with the top bar mounting bolt. I'll post up pics for comparison when I get it. Good news is...... when we find a 3rd or 4th Gen bike for Electrodynamic, I will be making multiple brackets necessary for the conversion. It's just as easy to go ahead and make 3 extra brackets while you have all the dimensions fresh and the tools out as well. :thumbsup: So I may be able to offer to the VFRD members a "conversion KIT" one day.

Sesand COOL........lets see pictures of how you mounted your front fairing stay. Well, we just got back from the meet and boy did the bike ever feel like a completely different m/c ......all I had to do was lean and it just fell over into the corners with little countersteering as ever before. I will be continuing ahead with the modifications as the CBR stock solo seat. ....SUCKS :beer: <_< That is what I did as soon as I got off the bike from the TexasMac Meet....stripped off the cover and tore off all the foam from the stock seat base. The stock CBR seat pan is raised throughout the middle section and the two outer ridges have very little padding therefore creating two severe pressure points which will rip your #SS apart and make you never ever want to swing a leg over the bike again. So I will most likely just make a new seat base out of flat aluminum so that I can put down a base of dense foam(about 1/2" thick) and then take the Visco Memory Foam and shape it to the style I want. That should lower the seat over an inch itself.......gg2wheel4me got on the bike and said, "This is like a motocross bike" My group ride leader sat on the bike after our first days ride and said, OH GOD, how did you stand to be on this all day?" This is the battery box fabricated out of aluminum which straddles the top of the box subframe.

well, it's back together...is it finished? NOPE far from it but I will take it to get inspected tomorrow and then hopefully leave for the 4 hour or so drive up to Robbinsville....after sitting on the CBR seat for 15 minutes or so, I am now painfully aware that it leaves alot to be desired. I had planned on replacing the foam on the plastic base before I left, but just didn't have time. So when I get back, I have to paint everything and re-do a seat. And I will be getting back with my fabricator to make a secondary exhaust (dual tips) to help quieten it down just a tad. :unsure: For anyone thinking about doing this conversion, remember, you are giving up comfort in the riding position overall. I know I can improve on several things such as the seat, the master cylinders are both too da%^&med big...the brake master cylinder I just found is less than half of the stock one and doesn't stick above the bar bolts, the VFR one sticks up 1 full inch above the bolts causing a major interference with the windshield. So I should be able to solve that problem once I get the new one installed...also found a different clutch master cylinder setup as well. How much have I shaved off in weight? DUNNO YET. When I get back I will total up everything. From the tank back, the new subframe seat and exhaust and solo tail shaved off approximately 30lbs. Let's go to the Meet. :D

Go to this site, it's the one on the bottom 6 inches wide ............. guy said it was very bright for a tail light and superbright for the brake light section. http://www.braggengineering.com/Products.php Cool stuff. Is this fun or what? :o

See if this works. Apologies in advance to BaileyRock as I know he doesn't like loud exhaust, but there is another secondary exhaust in the planning stages that will be located directly behind the Micron shorty which will go into two side-by-side tailpipes/mufflers which my fabricator and I are conjuring up. :P

Thanks for the positive comments, it's starting to wear me down big time, but I'm just checking things off of the list one-by-one. I'm gonna take Sebastians advice and just get the thing running so I will be showing up(if everything else goes ok)at the TexasMac meet in gray primer just like the last photos I submitted. Sebastian bailed me out as I was getting ready to throw in the towel after fighting bleeding the front brakes for 1 hour with no success. A quick phone call to him and WHALLAH ! success. :thumbsup: Back to work.

Been looking at the prices of these on Ebay....ain't nothing priced that cheap this week. :blink:

A quick picture of the subframe.....ended up weighing 2 lbs on the nose. installed subframe showing the side seat supports and undertail exhaust location. Front seat bracket to fit the F4i solo seat. Peeking through the back of the seat to show the rear bolt up for the seat. Shot from the rear showing the seat bolts Exhaust muffler location. Another shot from the underside. Got the brakes front and rear bled finally( Thanks Sebastian for the tip ) and clutch line too. Will go back to the fab shop tomorrow and have him weld up the new battery box. Also stop by the bolt place and pick up some proper bolts for a few things. 4 more days till TexasMac. <_< :blink: :o

6 days left on the project....tomorrow I'm back at the welders so that all the rest of the subframe braces can be put in. Today he fabbed up a new exhaust piece that goes from the stock exhaust to the undertail exhaust muffler. He cut off the cone on the original muffler and welded it to a SS piece of tubing and then just went from there on up....made it look really easy and didn't take much time either. I'll post some pics up tomorrow of it in place, as he still is going to cut off the muffler exhaust tip flush with the muffler and rotate it 90 degrees so that the muffler will lay on it's side(it's oval shaped) taking up less space under the seat. Now that Chris posted up about getting his 04-06 Yamaha R1 R/R wired up, I will look for one on Ebay and will want to re-locate it up on the front of the bike more than likely in a path of good air flow. It just doesn't make sense to put it up under a seat.

Thanks Chris for posting it up and the review. Now I will look again on Ebay. <_<

Working late, taking off work tomorrow to spend all day working on the bike. I have the main subframe put together and will take the bike in the trailer up to the TIG welders shop so that he can weld some of the subframe that I have held together with bolts (temporarily) and to fabricate the SS exhaust tubing to the new Micron Shorty 240 mm can which will go up under the tail. This is a shot of the initial mockup of the subframe OK.....1:00 am time to call it a night. gotta have the gas tank at the auto place where the dent repair guy comes in on fridays there at 7:30 am

Thaks for the input and ideas you bring forth. Tha oil cooler should have good air flow coming up from the front vents and with the natural thermodynamics, the heat should flow right up thru the fins. As long as the oil pump keeps a good flow I do not forsee any problems. I have looked at different ways to do the lights and for now,I like them being hidden and not messing up the smooth bodywork up on top. I do like the twin headlamp setup of the RC45's and such. The 3rd Gen tank looks better to me, I don't like the big humpback whale design of the 4th Gen bikes, I like the older flat top race bike look.....like most older Yamaha tanks have to them. I will eventually take a mold off of the bottom of the tank and carve out a new top of my own design out of foam and make my own tank out of fiberglas. Also planning on filling the space up front inside the cowl with decorative cover plates. I may not get that done in time....only 8 days left to do a crap load of work. If you want to take a pillion the stock f4i rear bodywork would be the way to go. I just don't do passengers at all. Don't like driving with them on the back or the responsibility of them. Just need gold upside down forks next. :thumbsup:

WE WANT A SOUND CLIP :thumbsup: :salesman: :goofy:

Got the Convertibars on and the new longer throttle cables( 6 inches longer than stock) and the longer choke cable too. In my other post about getting longer cables made I told of going to an old(34 year old shop) and having all new cables made longer...the shop still had some of the original bolts, carbs, etc. laying in the tops of their toolboxes, and all over the workbenches, floors....it was a disaster....looked like a tornado went through there. Should have taken my camera again, but the guy seemed to do a good job on the cables. Also installed the longer hydraulic hoses for the clutch and brake master cylinders. Russell brand ordered through the local Yamaha dealer ( 1 mile away) And I went ahead and installed the Russell SS brake line kit I bought on Ebay for .99 cents so that it would all match...also got the rear brake line out of SS in the same auction...got it installed too. Then installed the Goodridge Speed Bleeders on the 3 brake calipers and the clutch cylinder. Found out that the best location for the oil cooler was on top of my bracket that I made to hold the new PIAA bullet driving lights. This was bracket number 4 for the lights. :blink: Anyway, they are in place and the oil cooler was not going to go down below as it was going to hit the fork tubes on full lock. I took the oil cooler hoses and removed them from the holders in front of the radiator so that they would have a lot more room to move around...this allowed me to place the oil cooler horizontal and also provided a place to put a RAM ball mount on the end of the screw that holds the oil cooler in place. This shows the Veypor gauge in place on the RAM ball mount. The same bracket for all of this provided a place to mount the factory fuse box. And here is a front end shot of the new lights in place. There is just enough room below the lights to lay the original bulbs in place and put amber colored lenses cut to fit in the space provided. I got my 3rd Gen fuel tank in and it is mounted the same in the front of the tank, but the rear of the tank has a slightly longer mounting spot, so I will be making some aluminum plates to bolt on to the original holes and then have an alternate set of holes just rearward so that I can use the original bolt and rubber grommets/bushings Tomorrow, onto to start fabricating the rear subframe out of aluminum square tubing.

Great bunch of information here, especially with the pictures and explanations too. Thanks for keeping this going guys. :thumbsup: