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I have some more ideas for the exhaust, it works for now and it was pretty cheap to make. I'm learning as i go, so i figure in about twenty years this bike will be have everything that i could ever dream of done to it!

Yeah, that was a color I was looking at too, but i think i have some new ideas. Updates to come soon, i dont have enough time to do anything, final exams for school have been weighing me down.... in fact i'm attempting to study right now (its not going very well!!!) anybody out there know any polish and wants to take an exam tomorrow? LMK....PLEASE

UPDATE: I got my new gauges a couple of days ago. I never had gauges for the bike, the previous owner did not have them on and decided to cut all the wires that are associated with the gauges and warning lights and hide them... funny joke! yeah, it wasn't real funny to me after i dug through the whole wiring harness to find and extend them. Anyway i decided to go with a company that i heard of through my buddy who bought gauges for his car - Glow shift gauges. Some people said they were kind of cheap but others said they were awesome, so i decide to give them a try. I decide to go with the 2 inch digital series that they just unveiled. I got a water temp, voltmeter, and tach from them and they look great. The prices ran about $40 a piece which wasnt too bad from what i looked at. The water temp and the volt meter hooked up great and worked great but im having some troubles with the tach as i expected. the tach gauge is compatable from a one cyclinder engine all the way up to a 12 cylinder engine. When i first hooked it up i was getting some inaccurate readings as the numbers were jumping everywhere, but after a little wiring it seems more steady now. It fluctuates from about 1000 to 1080 rpms at idle. The tech support from the gauge company told me that i might need a tach adapter to make it work right, but i think its working fine. I never had a tach before so im not sure what the engine sounds like at a particular rpm. water temp.jpg volt.jpg tach.jpg I'm currently working on a dashboard configuration for these gauges, some switches, and warning lights. Today i had the idea of maybe incorporating a small gps unit into the dashboard as the center point. I had heard the navigation units were able to calculate the speed of the cars that they were in and this might be a good alternative to my digital bicycle speedo that ii have on there now. This idea came to be after I pulled a new volvo into the body shop where i work - no not to work on it . . . but to wash it. They dont think i'm qualified to work on cars becuase im in college and didnt graduate from a fancy mechanical school where i could learn everything i already figured out in my garage Sorry, it was a long day at work and the geico insurance rep decided to runn over the power washer hose with his car and put a hole in it so i had to wash the last 20 cars that had to go that day the old fashion way, with a bucket of water and soap. Man i love power washers. Anyway this volvo had a small garmin navigation unit and it calcualted the cars speed and posted it in the lower corner of the screen. It seemed a bit off though. HAs anyone out there had any success with using this as a speedo on a bike or on a car? Would it be worth the money to get a small unit for my bike? I dont take many long trips, i juts think that it would look cool if i incorporated the screen into my gauges setup and was able to get rid of my bike speedo. I got some more duacti pieces today that fill in the side between the fairings and the forks where the ram air tubes go, so that will be a little cleaner this weekend. Also i started making a new exhaust becuase i really wasnt feeling the other one becuase it sticks out a little much, i'll post some pics tomorrow when i can get some get ones. Its a very simple design, and i know most of you guys dont like loud exhausts, but this ones not too bad! I've also been thinking about some paint otions as well. there are three options right now 1. all white ( hard to keep clean?) 2. red white and blue like the 25th anivers. bike 3. Jeep metallic green, the one im leaning towards at the moment, with a black frame and black rims with a polished lip. More deatils to come.

I just can't stay with one look for more than a year, so its time for a change. A couple months ago I finished up my streetfighter vfr. I used a cbr600rr tail section and did a little fiberglass work on it for the rear end, shortened the exhaust, and put it in primer. After a summer of riding it I decided that I wanted something different... im pretty sure i convinced my self of this becuase im now obsessed with motorcycles and summer is comming up and im definately not going to school summer quarter so i'll have some spare time on my hands, not to mentioned the fact that I can't afford a ducati. So the journey began. I found a set of Ducati 996 fairings on craiglist a couple months ago and decided to buy them just to have around in case i needed them for something. They were a bit scrathced up, as you can see in the pictures, but not too bad. The front is probably the worst, I'm probably going to buy a new one if this project ever gets to the paint stage. The rear section I used for a tail swap on a Buell Blast that I picked up 6 months ago, which has been put on hold to finish the vfr. Getting the fairings to look right on the bike was a struggle that started a coupl weeks. I had trim the fairings pretty good and they are not even fully done yet, but they work. The inner air ducts had to be cut out a bit to fit around the frame, and I just started the front fairing stay the other day, its a challenge when you dont have the greatest welding skills in the world, but Ive been learning alot from the guys who work at my new job. I started working at a collision repair shop, cleaning up the body techs messes and washing cars. Heres some pics of my bike when I first got it., its pretty ugly. I had no idea what a vfr was, i just wanted a bike. I got it 2 years ago, around 18th birthday, and i will never let it go. I paid $1200 for it, which I know now is a great geal, even for a slavage title bike. old bike 3.jpg old bike 2.jpg old bike.jpg The next pictures are of the cbr tail swap, which is up sale if anyone wants it, i doubt it. The back has a little crack starting where the fairing was not repaired right by the company i bought it from. I didnt think it was a big deal at first, but its sarting to crack the fiberglass a little, probably just needs some body work. 100_1683.jpg The rims.jpg Back end.jpg The final pictures are of the fairings as they sit on the now I moved the handle bars under the triple trees , and it definately looks better, but I'm not so sure about the functionality of them. The pics arent the best quality but i should be able to get ome good ones up in the following days. duc3.jpg duc44.jpg duc33.jpg duc55.jpg duc77.jpg duc66.jpg I've been saving all these modifications to show it all at once, and when i saw a topic about the vfr with ducati fairings on here it got me really excited. I finally got around to writing up a post. The front fairing of the bike is the ducati 996 fairing but i molded in the headlight holes and used pontiac g6 fog lights as the headlights. I found them laying around the body shop and thought they might look good. The rear tail section is off a 03 yamaha r1, i didnt want too have to modify it at all so that i could sell it if it didnt look good with the ducati parts, but it matches pretty well. The undertail is an hotbodies undertail. I had to fabricate a new subframe, which wasnt to dificult after doing the one for the cbr a year ago. TI know this post is kind of all over the place but i had written it in sections and i've been saving it. For now I am riding it in primer just to make sure all the brackets turned out okay and it sits right. There still a lot of work to be done. I'm hoping to get it painted this winter, i think i'll go with white with a black frame, and black rims with a polished lip. Paint wont be too expensive because whenever i need some i can just go and clean the paint room at the body shop, they are always throwing out good paint! Tell me what you guys think. Does anyone know how to compact my jpeg files from my good camera so that they will load on here, i have no idea? Andrew