AussieinUSA

I've been following this also with anticipation that Honda will do the right thing,

There's a difference between normal wear and tear, abuse and defective, this is an obvious defect in the product, a lemon as is known in the auto industry and Honda would do itself a tremendous service by making things right.

Well done O, another job done by the crazy Canadian writing chick. BTW...i've changed em with just about full tanks, no issue just alittle extra weight lifting the tank. I say a 6-12 beer job, turn it into an alldayer and the wife will think you're a stud mechanic........

O, that'd make ya a Studette to the fella's.

I wrecked my GSX-R1000 on the racetrack last sunday in vegas so i am more focused on getting it ready before the season starts back up.

Ahhh, so you were one of em eh Dre....busy day for the crew driving the crash truck, I believe atleast a dozen wrecks...sorry to hear you were one of them. I was out there but taking it really easy, the wind combined with cold track didn't make for ideal conditions.

Anyway, nice job on the Viffer....well done!!

yep, first lap of the second sesion in the "Lucas Oil" group i lost the tucked the front end setting up for turn 3 and 4. what kind of bike were you on? the crash truck probably needed to refuel by lunch time :laughing6-hehe:

LOL...think you're right.

Turn 3 catches alot of peope out, get off line through there with cold tires and you're history, seen it many times including my buddy..I rode Michelin group and sat out the first session, I was on the 02 RC51, pretty easy to spot as theres rarely any others out there. The first couple of sessions I was pretty much crawling, the track was really slick and I couldn't get any heat in the tires. By lunchtime things were alot better trackwise...was still cold and blowing like a SOB though.. :pissed:

I wrecked my GSX-R1000 on the racetrack last sunday in vegas so i am more focused on getting it ready before the season starts back up.

Ahhh, so you were one of em eh Dre....busy day for the crew driving the crash truck, I believe atleast a dozen wrecks...sorry to hear you were one of them. I was out there but taking it really easy, the wind combined with cold track didn't make for ideal conditions.

Anyway, nice job on the Viffer....well done!!

It shows up for me, copied and pasted, maybe now you can see it?

:biggrin: :dry: . You crazy bastige Cruz............

Glad your ok mate, too bad about the ride. You'll just do it even better this time.

BTW...you get a lollypop for pulling a lunitico :fing02:

I am curious as to what a dyno tuning session for the PC III costs.

I believe it is around $250-$300 for a full customized mapping on a dyno. The mapping was basically free for me since I won a raffle drawing to be redeemed at Las Vegas DynoTech and I used it for the custom mapping since I needed it.

I was in Las Vegas last month and didn't win a damn thing! :fing02:

And here I am thinkin your a "Playa"

I am curious as to what a dyno tuning session for the PC III costs.

I believe it is around $250-$300 for a full customized mapping on a dyno. The mapping was basically free for me since I won a raffle drawing to be redeemed at Las Vegas DynoTech and I used it for the custom mapping since I needed it.

Niiiiiiiiicccceeeeeeee!! :biggrin:

Thanks for posting Warren, I could stand to lose those 26lbs right off the gut :mellow:

Good to hear your happy with the results of the mapping, now to the track :unsure: :fing02:

Not long before ya gunna be testing em, looking forward to hearing and seeing how they worked out.

Be careful of aircraft looking for somewhere to land :angry:

Love it!! Great work whoever pulled it off

John, how is it possible that you're still doing stuff to that bike?

I've been looking at everything you've done and think maybe your wifes payraise has been well spent already :biggrin:

Great mod list you've compiled there mate :fing02:

How does spanish sound with an Aussie accent??? :unsure: :fing02: :cool:

Emmm, just think of Mad Max overtaking the main part in El Zorro... :goofy:

He He He :schla15:

Did anybody answer the guy who asked: "Why not simply remove the stock fan from the stock fan motor, turn only the blade OVER so it pushes OUT rather than sucks IN, and reinstall the now-inverted blade back onto the stock fan motor?"?

If so, I missed it.

That wont help, you would have to reverse the motor(polarity) also. I also think you'd possibly have to mod fan to make it fit, I know I had to on the 51. The VTR fan may be good though.

When I bought my RC51 the previous owner had removed the left side fan due to what he said was both fans pulling air into the engine area just made hot air build up in there. In the year and a half I've had it I have never replaced it and the temp never goes above 220. The right side fan seems to be enough. I have the fan and have thought about reversing it and placing it back on the bike but it really isn't necessary.

I tried this first and it worked great, actually better than what I ended up doing..................when moving. At stop and go and in slow moving traffic though it was a different story, the bikes temp rose incredibly quick to #'s that scared me so I wound up reversing polarity and blade which gave me the best results overall. I've read many posts where people said you only needed to change polarity and that would do the trick, well I tried this initially and found that that idea did absolutuley nothing. Whats happens is the blade now spins opposite so it should be pushing not pulling which it does except the pitch and direction of the blade are now wrong, the air ends up not only not pushing but also not sucking, it sorta does nothing at all. I tested this off the bike so I could really see what was happening, maybe on the bike it'd be different but i'm not sure how in stop and go traffic. Taking the fan out altogether, (left side) along with the plastic deflector was absolutely the best whilst moving, all sorts of air can hit the front cyclinder and escape through the left rad at speed. Just my findings and also on a 51, not tested on a VFR.

Also....I'm in an incredibly hot climate, on average 72 days over 100f, (last year we had over 90 days) so this is a brutal test for these machines

Todd, Spanglish is what I believe we're talkin here although he kicks my ass in both languages :rolleyes:

Well I would beg to differ with my compatriot AussieinUSA, and would dare to state that the VFR is a known hot-running bike. Everyone I know over here who has one, or knows someone who has one, says they boil your eggs in no time...

Ok, i'll give you that but I was comparing to my 51 (SP2), now theres a bike thats really known to run hot and in my case in summer always above 230f, my polarity/blade switch defineately helped. I hear ya though brother, Viffers can get toasty :fing02:

Correction: my highly esteemed compatriot AussieinUSA... :fing02:

well thank you my Spanish speaking compadre' :beer:

Well I would beg to differ with my compatriot AussieinUSA, and would dare to state that the VFR is a known hot-running bike. Everyone I know over here who has one, or knows someone who has one, says they boil your eggs in no time...

Ok, i'll give you that but I was comparing to my 51 (SP2), now theres a bike thats really known to run hot and in my case in summer always above 230f, my polarity/blade switch defineately helped. I hear ya though brother, Viffers can get toasty :rolleyes:

Let me preface this by saying that i'm not the most mechanical guy in the world, but...

Would it be possible to just take the OEM fan off and flip it 180 degrees so the fan blades are pointing the other direction rather than having to buy the vtx part? I've been having MAJOR overheating issues and am looking for ideas on anything...

Todd, this is something i've got experience with, I reversed polarity and flipped the blade on the right hand side of my RC51. It defineatly helped with the 51 but they are known to run hot, real hot in our climate. I had to drill out the backside of the blade alittle to make it work but that was the extent of it, oh I added some spacers also. Have you thought of removeing the V-cowl also as this allows more airflow over the cyclinders. In your case i'm not sure i'd do this as the VFR isn't typically a real hot runner, your problem is somewhere else although doing this shouldn't hurt even if the problems found. I took pics whilst doing it on the RC so I know what I did, real easy actually and if ya want to do it let me know, maybe I could help ya when I get back.

Great write up, thanks for spending the time giving all the information you possibly could, this will help many on this site and more than likely other sites also. :thumbsup: + :rolleyes:

:rolleyes: Sofar very impressive

Looks and sounds great Roy, nice upgrades :thumbsup: