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Victory! The frankenstein GIVI rack + SHAD medium universal plate in fact works!! I honestly don't hate the look of the racks... Which is good, because they are here to stay 😆 The bolt holes do NOT line up, but I made it work ;D

As stated, looking for a Power Commander 3 or 5. Used is fine.

This is an amazing restoration. Would love more pics!

As an "it looks great from 10 feet" guy I am laughing all through this interesting thread. Keep it coming MD & Captain. I do like reading and seeing the detail from folks who actually know what they're doing.

As a retired professional mariner, we used to call this. "Unscheduled Maintenence" 😁

The UPS man just handed me a care package... yessss. I was banging my head against the wall on getting the TBs on with the old hard insulators... decided, well effe that.. Was asking about new ones in a previous thread and ended up buying K&L/Tourmax 5th gen replacements. --- (Still got to give Terry a big kudos for verifying that 6ths will work) -------------(ordered mine before Terrys reply) Anyhoo.............. And one thing...... A discussion before was that these are OEM quality... I cant say what I am going to say would go for others that are not 5th gen, but I am stating this based on I'm a career automotive engineer with tons of supplier work.... I swear these-- are---OEM parts.... same markings, same mold lines, same rubber flow lines... I cant find a single difference. New on left....Old on right

I have that one fitted on some bikes for a few years now. It has been just fine and resilient. Nice.

fitted a volt meter to the handlebar,not very bright in the sunshine but it came with its own bracket,I think it looks quite good there.

I've moved it round now,pretty obvious I suppose f for the vfr800f and x for 800x,just wanted to check.

Not trying to be debbie-after-the-fact-downer here. Just maybe some tips for the next time or the next guy.

On something so detailed, I think I would have had him not bother, then drug them length wise, nice and parallel, across some 600 grit or so on a nice thick piece of glass. But I have learned that when you bolt everything up, that little shit disappears for the most part. Too much sweet, shiny, rebuilt awesomeness all around to pull the eye away.

Ahhh!!!

Agree on the powder coaters, the guy really effed up the Nissin lettering. I fixed things as best I can. The wheels came out decent and look good though ...

I'm usually pretty unimpressed with powder coaters. All assembled, your stuff looks great. I had some front and rear calipers and brackets (for my forthcoming last 86 VFR RestoMod... or so I say) powder coated by somebody that specialized in motorcycle components and did RestoMod / Restorations. I had just came off of restoring about 4 complete sets of brakes one after another and I was just fucking tired of it. The masking was perfect, the finish sublime and the colors killer. What it wasn't was cheap for 6 fairly small components. Good-Fast-Cheap-pick-any-two still intact. In the future I will restore them myself like I always have done. Glad the drill thru went smooth. Keep it up! There's only 17 more while-I'm-there's left. 😉

The drill out went great... I seem to have 2 of everything, so I practiced on a spare first.. Thanks for the compliment, it means a lot...

Fronts Installing new seals.. btw - I was less than happy on the powder coater job, on the bare aluminum I added 3 coats of a automotive clear coating... we shall see how that goes.. Pistons installed.. Working bolt up Checking bolt lengths All together..

I think I missed how the rear caliper brake fluid circuit drilling went. Everything looks great!! Exceptional work as always.

More stuff.... I can never go in a straight line on a refresh... the more you dig, the more you find.....tangents and more tangents... and beerz in between.. Caliper rebuild work. Since I had new powder coat on the calipers, I had to finish with several coats of this ceramic coating stuff, brake dust doesnt stick to it. I like it, although there is new technology coatings out there now.... Since the OEM bolts for reassembly on the calipers were near 7ish bucks apiece, checked ProBolt and well, I'm a sucker for their stuff. ProBolts fasteners are mind blowingly incredible little artwork jewels. So, geek foole me, bought titanium replacements... Rear Hacksaw fabbed a middle cylinder circuit plug... Installing shiny pistons in the bores.. Bolting it up.... All together and purty...

I'd certainly like to do that, but my priority for now is get it on the road safely. I won't do springs this time around. I need to make sure she runs well first, I can't do that with leaking forks so fork seals, get her on the road for a few weeks and then see how she's running and what she needs. I reckon the shock will be knackered as well so I would aim to do that and a proper overhaul of the forks next year. A slight false economy, but it's only costing 50 quid to sort the seals so not exactly breaking the bank

Thank you Skids that's the information I needed,ive got it on 'f' because that's the instructions I had told me,will change it now,thanks again.

Thanks Terry: That is interesting. I am no electrical expert, but it appears that turning the ignition on would send power to the rectifier. Possibly to "prime" it? I'm a bit light here to be honest. I will assume that since the mosfet I have does not have this particular wire it does not need that power from the ignition. So, as MD pointed out, I can just eliminate it. I'm posting a pic of my 2001's oem rectifier. If some one here could confirm or deny it's the same as used in the 6th Gens that could be helpful down the road. I'm still a bit miffed Honda makes no mention of this in their 5th Gen service manual.🤔

Hi m8. I have a Honda QS fitted to my 800X and have a set of instructions. QS reference is P/N 08U70-MJM-D60. Do these help? I can scan the instructions at work tomorrow and email them to you if you want them?

Hi everyone,I've fitted a quickshifter to my 800x,unfortunately it didn't come with instructions,I've found a pdf online to which ive followed,I haven't tried it yet because I have one query I'd like to sort out. Could somebody please share a photo of the gear lever onto its shaft,the instructions I read (which are for a F model)said to line the dots up on F but I've noticed mine has two dots just want to make sure I have it right before riding the bike thanks Sean C