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Serenity_VFR

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  1. For me, the perfect fastener system was used in the Gen1 VFR. Why Honda went away from simple and easy fairing fasteners and towards the horrible abortions of engineering that they use now is beyond me.
  2. That's too bad. It's a great fit for the Gen5 and the horn bells line up almost perfectly on a hole in the bodywork so they are blowing right out into the open air (on the right side so it's not quite as loud when the person cutting you off is on the left -but not by much. My GF asks me emphatically NOT to blow the horn unless it is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY, as it scares the bejesus out of her and hurts her ears even with earplugs in her ears under a full-faced helmet. It's pretty damn loud. She hates it. Wherever you put it, the Stebel is a great horn -although I do suggest that it be mounted straight up and down as the manufacturer asks. I've heard that they don't last very long if you don't. The motor isn't designed to run that way and moisture can't drain out of the coiled nautilus horn if it somehow gets sprayed up in there.
  3. Fits just fine right in front of the radiator. The bracket is just a bit of 1" x 3/16 aluminum flat stock (easier to work with and is rust-proof and better looking IMHO than that corrigated steel plumbing stuff you used) and goes between the existing fairing mount holes. The bolt on the bottom of the bracket is not in because the black faring part receives it usually so I just threw a bit of safety wire in there while I was working on it (and doing a couple of test rides. Of course my way requires that the silly inside black plastic pieces be thrown away -but it also is part of my program to remove all those plastic junk push-pin connectors and replace them with the same fasteners that hold the fairing on everywhere else. I put the R/R on another bracket on the other side where it can get cooler and moving air and never gets so warm that you can't touch it. The Bracket is made of similar aluminum flat-stock but it's just twice as wide. You can buy this stuff at just about any home store for something like $5-6 for a 4-foot piece. I use that stuff all over to fabricate brackets. Like for my LED gauge -although this extreme close-up shows that I got a bit lazy and didn't sand out all the tool marks on this one. :biggrin:
  4. I, for one, would like to see a video of the tank working and doing its thing. This thing would be worth it just for the "mad scientist" cosmetic points. In a world where people waste time polishing their rims, putting on hugger fenders and rear-fender eliminators, converting to high and under-tail exhausts (heck, all after-market exhausts in any case other than crash or severe rust damage), and a whole host of cosmetic and silly add-ons that don't do diddly to real performance (not that high-performance is even needed on the street in real-world, non-track, riding), I can't see why people are so up in arms and out to "prove" that this is scientifically unfounded and a huge "waste of time and effort." It's funny how this subject brings out the haterz in force.
  5. Lotus eaters? Good thing your degree is in Engineering rather than Greek mythology (or English, for that matter! ;) Apathy? Narcotic trance? -I can't see the link between that and the "conspiracy buffs." I'd accept Hoi Polloi maybe, if it were a popularly-held belief (like the 100MPH carburetor) but if I were grading your paper I'd certainly mark down for poor word choices, spelling, and grammar. I always try to at least get my spelling and grammar right before I attempt to talk down to someone else -much less call them lotus-eaters... :mellow:
  6. The real question is why you CARE so much that some ingenious person is laboring away "wasting" his energy doing something that you insist is impossible. Start looking at the root cause behind this need and the rest of the situation becomes a lot clearer IMHO.
  7. How about a better analogy then -think about a super-charger. You are taking a little bit of crank energy to turn the blower, but you are putting more air into the bike so the fuel burns better. Would anyone say that a supercharger violates the laws of physics? I'm sure there were skeptics who said JUST THAT when the supercharger was first envisioned.
  8. It doesn't so much get shorted TO the frame as it gets shorted THROUGH the frame and back to the negative side of the R/R-battery circuit. This is called I2R loss. The current squared times the DC resistance of the circuit is converted into heat. It's just math -but if you don't understand the equations and know how to mix I=E/R with P=IE then it's never going to work out. Mix in a little bit of 3-phase AC theory and most people get totally lost.
  9. I think this is an interesting concept. If the generated gas can act as an effective additive which increases the burn efficiency of the gasoline then there are no laws of thermodynamics being violated. I don't think this should be a difficult concept for many to grasp here, but reading this thread it seems that it really is. Perhaps it is a critical reading deficiency? He's not trying to produce a primary fuel source here -just produce an additive that might increase the amount of energy the ICE is extracting from the gasoline. This isn't a perpetual motion machine. He's still using gas. Think of the system as a wind-up toy car. He's not going to replace the wind-up mainspring -just oil it so that it moves better when it is unwinding. He's not trying to get any real energy out of the "oil" (hydroxy gas) -just using it to lube and improve the efficiency of the "spring" (the gasoline-powered ICE engine). About the only issue I can see with the whole idea so far is the statement that distilled water is $2.99/gallon. I can buy it at the little local grocery store across the street for about $1.50 gallon. In a time when some people on this board are paying $6-8/quart (or even more) for boutique synthetic crank oil I would think that $1.50 for a gallon of clean/pure water isn't really a big deal. It's practically free. Since he's got a good water filter on his tap, it's even less of an issue. Every grocery store in the USA sells distilled water. It's not unobtanium or very expensive. What is the issue? But what do I know... The real question is; hHow well will the additive change the burn properties of the pump gas? And can the EFI map be changed to take advantage of these changes to increase HP and/or fuel mileage. I think it's worth the effort for someone to find out -especially as the only effort I personally have to put into the experiment is to wait for the dyno charts to be made and posted online. Yes, it's worth the wait. Oh, the humanity!
  10. Please tell me that you don't have an EE. I don't even know where to start to explain where the train left the tracks here...
  11. $29.99 at Pimps 'n Queers: http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_00912794000P?keyword=angle+grinder That's how I get tools. Just buy 'em when you need 'em and sometime later on, they're always right at hand! Yeah, that's a good idea. I didn't know they could be had that cheap. I don't have a bench grinder, so I may have to get one of those too. $29 at K-mart? I don't shop at K-mart. I quit buying Craftsman once K-mart bought them out. For K-mart quality one might as well pay Harbor Freight prices. Their angle grinder is regularly under $19, and I've seen it on sale for $9.99. It's pretty much indestructible. I think HF and K-mart pretty much have their stuff made at the same factories in China. I avoid the middleman and buy straight from China.inc/HF. Electric tools are OK but the real power is in using pneumatic tools. If you have a decent air compressor I'm a big fan of the low-cost HF China-Pneumatic line of air tools. The air angle grinder is pretty slick. Much better than an electric grinder other than you are tied to the air line rather than an electrical cord. With the China-Pneumatic tools you just have to have a few extra O-rings on hand as they don't last as long before the first rebuild compared to the 10x the $ version like real Chicago-Pneumatic or Ingersoll-Rand. But if you clean up the rough spots inside while you are rebuilding with new O-rings they'll last nearly as long between rebuilds as their high-$ cousins. Air tools are dead simple devices IMHO.
  12. My dad had a machinist friend from work make something similar for his (now mine) Gen5 back when he had it in '98-02. the milled aluminum piece went straight down at the same forward angle as the peg bracket naturally is cut out at. This set you have seems to be even further forward with that offset built in. With his he never had any issue with the kickstand hitting although it was too hard to deploy in my opinion. The other issue he had was that the shifter was now too close to the peg so he ended up cutting/shortening it and splinting it which made it a little shorter throw but not quite so close to the peg. It wasn't an issue to move it down -it was just too long still. The brake side he just heated up with a torch and bent to fit. When I bought the bike I was touching down all the time in slow parking-lot manuevers. The VFR turns like a fat pig at slow speed because of the lack of steering lock and you really need a lot of lean angle (and often counter-leaning with your body) to get it lean over enough to U-turn like other bikes with decent steering lock. This would cause the pegs to really drag in the parking lot so after a couple of weeks I just took them out. I still would drag the pegs with the stock set-up though until I swapped the rubber-topped pegs to the all-aluminum ones from a Gen1. I kept the shorter peg feelers of the Gen1 on there so now they hardly ever touch down. I don't have that rubber bumper on the C-stand so it doesn't touch down either. I think with regards to touching down the pegs or other semi-hard stuff (stands) it's all about how you ride. I'm not a "fast rider" on the public roads but I do tend to lean a lot to get the bike to turn at slow speeds. I also ride mostly on slow-speed tight town back roads where a marked 15 or 20MPH turn will have you rubbing pegs at anything over 55-60MPH. I get my yayas off on roads like that. Doing 100-120+ sweepers on county roads just isn't good for your personal health or your license IMHO.
  13. The hartley engine is the way to go.
  14. Serenity_VFR

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    That just doesn't look right... :biggrin:
  15. From the album: Gen5 Enid

    K&N filter on left versus old (and dirty) stock Honda filter on right.

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  16. From the album: Gen5 Enid

    Naked.

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  17. I like the red "fishnet stockings" look a lot. It's very sexy. A couple of other very small red trim accents here and there would really pop the red. Go too far and it gets tacky. It doesn't take much -smaller is better. Maybe a red rear wheel center plastic plug, or red anodized screws holding on the black bar weights. That would give it a low-key look but still draw the eye. The look of the black radiator (especially with the red grille) appeals to me but I would be worried about any coating that would diminish the already-strapped cooling capabilities of the radiators on the VFR. Any coating is going to lower the heat transfer efficiency and even one iota of loss in this department is too much. I need a new left grille in my Gen5 as I got the bike pre-crashed and that is the last visible thing that was damaged in the wreck that I have not repaired or replaced. I also like the red grille and wonder if anyone is making them in red or you just are thinking of painting them red. Do you think the paint is going to adhere well to the plastic -especially since the radiators get really damn hot? (that's what they do). The grille seemed a pretty pricey item when I was looking for a replacement a year or so back. I'd hate to paint it and have it start to look all crappy as the paint flecked off here and there. But if I do end up getting a replacement I might just experiment with painting the old one just to see how well it holds up in the long run. Don't know if red would work with my Grey/Black paint scheme but maybe if it was the only red part it might just "pop." Maybe I'll try to Photoshop it like you did.
  18. Serenity_VFR

    I can has videos!

    Youtube video walkaround I've got a couple more on that same channel if you are interested in seeing my dash power panel or hear a startup of the VFR.
  19. From the album: Gen5 Enid

    Get your motor running...

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  20. From the album: Gen5 Enid

    Kurykyn LED voltmeter mount from below-ish.

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  21. Serenity_VFR

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    She looks good without her bags. Still better with the cowl but I never put that on. Too much work to pull the grabbies off first.

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  22. From the album: Gen5 Enid

    She's ready whenever I am.

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  23. From the album: Gen5 Enid

    R/R relocation, with peek at wiring for Powerlett outlets and relay that feeds them.

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