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Title: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: MadDuck on March 06, 2012, 10:36:22 PM Various iterations of the new exhaust ------ Frederick's bike ...... sort of seeing your ex-wife all redone with some plastic surgery... [laugh]
First, the Two Bros can in a very early temporary mock up mounting....... (http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/xx24/rickmch/Fred2Bros.jpg) I kind of liked that but it would need work on the length & mounting angles Then there is the newer version with a Yoshimura can..... (http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/xx24/rickmch/FredMonstr1.jpg) and..... (http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/xx24/rickmch/FredMonstr2.jpg) and lastly...... (http://i738.photobucket.com/albums/xx24/rickmch/FredMonstr3.jpg) Very clean for the most part, no ? Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: Speed 3 Pilot on March 06, 2012, 10:56:50 PM Damn that looks nice, as does the entire bike...my only critque would be that the windscreen looks as though it has a slight forward tilt and should come back some...otherwise... [thumbsup]
Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: koko64 on March 06, 2012, 11:39:21 PM Looks great, really like your bike.
I have a 95 model with the same carbon front guard and headlight fairing (although mine is a DP carbon version). I see you have at least one radial master cylinder, which I plan to fit also. Did you run a 999 brake line or two lines from the brake m/c? Nice work. Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: 118811 on March 06, 2012, 11:47:20 PM Damn that looks nice, as does the entire bike...my only critque would be that the windscreen looks as though it has a slight forward tilt and should come back some...otherwise... [thumbsup] Good eye, FP [clap] I agree, if I can it angled back I will. I think the DP tach & speedo that Ric installed may have Have a say if it's possible. Maybe Mac can comment...... Thanks for posting pics btw [Dolph] Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: MadDuck on March 07, 2012, 06:50:41 AM Looks great, really like your bike. I have a 95 model with the same carbon front guard and headlight fairing (although mine is a DP carbon version). I see you have at least one radial master cylinder, which I plan to fit also. Did you run a 999 brake line or two lines from the brake m/c? Nice work. Frederick's bike is fitted with two Brembo radial masters. The front brake has two separate lines. The forward tilt of the nose fairing & screen is not as noticeable in real life but there is so much stuff behind it that I don't know if it can be tilted back much more. Not only does the tach/speedo unit affect this but also the reservoirs for the masters. The fairing stays are a bit off to one side too however fixing that issue could be an entire afternoons work in itself as there are four mounting fixtures to the triple trees and I have found out over time that they are slightly eccentric so that where each one is adjusted and tightened also sets the angle of the fairing. It'd be a combination of turning them and bending the stays. Tedious. Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: eltristo on March 07, 2012, 07:50:08 AM The removal of the old-style beer tray and frame bits makes a big difference as well (don't know how long it's been like that now, as I haven't seen the bike in quite a while). Did you have the belly pan, Mac?
Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: teddy037.3 on March 07, 2012, 08:26:42 AM that yosh pipe looks hot
Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: MadDuck on March 07, 2012, 08:27:26 AM Nope. Frederick did that along with the tail chop. If you notice he's also got a different seat on it. Thinner foam and a custom alcantrara (sp?) seat cover.
Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: 118811 on March 07, 2012, 02:16:29 PM Well....I just got power (electric) back here on Diamond Head Rd.!! [bow_down]
I am liking all the mods Ric did....just finally got to take a blast around Wailae Iki...freeway was jammed so no Tantalus :'( Finally got the Yoshimura R55 bolted up, still needs some finishing touches. But it is stable. It sounds quieter than my dual stock shortened cans to me. Power smoother maybe its the new gearing. Regarding the suspension handling with the 30mm spacers....it's not worlds different. I never come close to pushing the envelope...but it is quicker steering & if you point it there ...be ready that's where you going!! Thanks to all for the compliments [bow_down] I really have enjoyed the last years with this bike!! ***seat is a stock shaved down & recovered with Alcantara (Faux suede & carbon fiber vinyl) So doing all these mods, makes baby feel & LOOK new to me!! Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: Thermite on March 08, 2012, 07:09:39 AM Looks great! Where do you get your safety check done?
Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: 118811 on March 08, 2012, 10:14:42 AM Montgomery Motors or a small shop in Kalihi [thumbsup]
Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: 118811 on March 16, 2012, 01:33:03 AM Well, I finally have got the can to header to seal completely!!
I was suffering from an exhaust leak and A LOT of popping on decel & virtually no engine breaking. Took the megaphone that came with the 2-1 header...cut the connection ( about 2'' ) and had that welded onto the Yoshi R 55 finally a good no leak fit. Mac's quote of "no modification goes unpunished" ...kept peeping into my head... Finally, very happy with the decision to go for the 2-1 system. [Dolph] Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: MadDuck on March 16, 2012, 08:34:58 AM [thumbsup]
Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: 118811 on April 13, 2012, 05:32:07 PM New Cycle Cat top triple & Rick's clip on's now installed [thumbsup]
Gotta find a new headlight fairing stock one longer works [bang] looks NAKED to me..... (http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/118811/IMG_2261.jpg) Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: Speed 3 Pilot on April 13, 2012, 05:58:51 PM Trick!... [thumbsup]
Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: 118811 on April 13, 2012, 06:22:13 PM Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: MadDuck on April 14, 2012, 08:24:51 AM Trick!... [thumbsup] +1 You should totally clean & polish everything, take more detailed pictures and submit for Bike of the Month! I'm tired of seeing that same old S4R when I open this site. Yours has the added bonus of being a daily driver. Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: Thermite on April 14, 2012, 07:20:36 PM You should totally clean & polish everything, take more detailed pictures and submit for Bike of the Month! +1 I haven't seen it in person but the exhaust work you did is worth the price of admission. Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: teddy037.3 on April 14, 2012, 07:47:05 PM +11tb for bomb sub.
but I *heart* the OG screen :'( Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: 118811 on April 14, 2012, 08:08:11 PM Carbon 14...
Thanks for compliment! Yeah, the exhaust came together pretty good I feel, considering I had to keep the stock rear-sets...need the pax pegs for my dates [Dolph] Teddy, Yeah, I wish I could incorporate the original fairing...but I can't without chopping it up. So, it and all the stock bars, risers and top clamp will be stored. I have a black 696/1100 bikini fairing on its way....we'll see how it fits? Re...polishing, whats that!!!? Rick will be the first to tell you & I am lax in the detailing dept... [roll] Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: teddy037.3 on April 14, 2012, 08:23:41 PM 696 fairing would probably take more fab to make it work... of course, that's just me saying that, without having seen how it even mounts.
wild guess, I suppose Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: MadDuck on April 14, 2012, 08:31:16 PM Teddy, Yeah, I wish I could incorporate the original fairing...but I can't without chopping it up. So, it and all the stock bars, risers and top clamp will be stored. I have a black 696/1100 bikini fairing on its way....we'll see how it fits? Re...polishing, whats that!!!? Rick will be the first to tell you & I am lax in the detailing dept... [roll] I had a look at the 620 nose fairing and it would take a bit of doing to make it work. Possible of course but with some imagination and fabrication......... have no idea how the 696 will work. I was only recommending the polishing just for the BOMB photos. ;D Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: 118811 on April 14, 2012, 08:46:34 PM Regarding the fairing....my thoughts without seeing the 696/1100 mounts on the fairing is to possibly connect it to the stock headlight brackets
via aluminum bar....with the bikini fairing up against the DP gauges...? Pic's will come [drink] Rick... BTW, changed out the grips on the clip on install to the Renthal "Firm" compound & you were right, took care of the slop I was experiencing with the throttle response. [beer] Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: 118811 on April 19, 2012, 07:28:22 PM This is the latest mod...696/1100 Bikini fairing
what do you guy's think? I like it better than nothing, but really wish it were red!! I do have a S4RS Corse Stripe one coming.... (http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/118811/IMG_2291.jpg) (http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/118811/IMG_2287.png) Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: Speed 3 Pilot on April 19, 2012, 09:02:50 PM That looks pretty good...got that "cafe racer" look going...
How about a side view and a cockpit shot... Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: 118811 on April 19, 2012, 09:38:26 PM HAHA....heres the side view [bang]
(http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/118811/IMG_2292.jpg) I ll take a true side view and cockpit in the am Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: Thermite on April 19, 2012, 09:47:33 PM S4RS has the stripe down the center. Didn't know they did it any other way.
Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: 118811 on April 19, 2012, 10:17:45 PM S4RS has the stripe down the center. Didn't know they did it any other way. Repeating the title off of ebay... may not be 100% accurate!! ??? Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: Thermite on April 19, 2012, 11:21:27 PM Not to knock your project but you're starting to get kapakahi with a single stripe on the tail, triple center on the belly pan, offset triple on the fairing. Slow down a little maybe? I don't know, just thinking out loud...
BTW I'm enjoying the "skinny girl of the moment" avatars. Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: 118811 on April 19, 2012, 11:33:15 PM Just for you Carbon [evil]
(http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/118811/IMG_0837.jpg) (http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/118811/IMG_0041.jpg) Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: Thermite on April 19, 2012, 11:40:47 PM Oh thanks, now I have to deal with that too. ;)
Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: MadDuck on April 20, 2012, 08:37:49 AM Not to knock your project but you're starting to get kapakahi with a single stripe on the tail, triple center on the belly pan, offset triple on the fairing. Slow down a little maybe? I don't know, just thinking out loud... BTW I'm enjoying the "skinny girl of the moment" avatars. He might be adding a new front fender with stripes on it too. ;D Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: 118811 on April 20, 2012, 09:11:33 AM Not to knock your project but you're starting to get kapakahi with a single stripe on the tail, triple center on the belly pan, offset triple on the fairing. Slow down a little maybe? I don't know, just thinking out loud... Yeah, I agree....I am just trying to find shapes & colors that work together. The rear is a triple stripe. The belly pan triple is a different size, sides stripes are larger :-\...looking for the correct size for the BP All these pieces are on & off ....like underware!! heres some cockpit & side view shots (http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/118811/IMG_2293.jpg) (http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/118811/IMG_2294.jpg) (http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/118811/IMG_2296.jpg) Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: Speed 3 Pilot on April 20, 2012, 10:19:37 AM Lookin' good!
Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: Speed 3 Pilot on April 20, 2012, 10:20:31 AM He might be adding a new front fender with stripes on it too. ;D All he's going to need is stripes on his helmet... Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: 118811 on April 20, 2012, 12:58:35 PM All he's going to need is stripes on his helmet... Ok I get it enough stripes!! [bang]don't think the striped fairing is going to make the cut....just got a red bikini off ebay...on it's way [thumbsup] I will put the S4R fairing on for forum scrutiny, tho Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: stopintime on April 20, 2012, 02:45:07 PM IMO the black bikini looks better than the red will [thumbsup] (we'll see)
If you get nicer front turn signals, I think you're pretty close to more than one thumb up Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: 118811 on April 20, 2012, 03:04:23 PM IMO the black bikini looks better than the red will [thumbsup] (we'll see) If you get nicer front turn signals, I think you're pretty close to more than one thumb up [beer]...I totally agree!! I can't believe no one else has brought the turn signals up...BTW I have new ones on the way [Dolph] I really think I am going to like the red 696/1100 bikini fairing better than the black...we will see [popcorn] & get everyone else's opinion too re S4RS fairing ...not sure. will see how it sits against the DP gauges [roll] Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: sta on April 20, 2012, 03:25:00 PM Nice top triple. [thumbsup] I always thought about getting them, but after I find out how much they are and rest of the upgrade, I am happy with the stock handle bar.
Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: 118811 on April 20, 2012, 04:56:41 PM Nice top triple. [thumbsup] I always thought about getting them, but after I find out how much they are and rest of the upgrade, I am happy with the stock handle bar. Thanks.. I got both used & paid just a little than for a set of factory bars [beer] Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: MadDuck on April 20, 2012, 11:38:15 PM IMO the black bikini looks better than the red will [thumbsup] (we'll see) If you get nicer front turn signals, I think you're pretty close to more than one thumb up See, I like the stock turn signal. They aren't really that bad looking compared to anything else and especially the later turn signals. They work real good, i.e. you can see them, others can see them and they are legal. Not a bad package overall. The newer pictures of the bikini fairing don't look half bad. Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: 118811 on April 20, 2012, 11:42:01 PM Thanks Rick! [thumbsup]
Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: eltristo on April 21, 2012, 03:32:50 AM [Slight thread misdirection]
So Cycle Cat is back in operation again? I love(d) almost everything they made, but I don't know how they keep going out of business. Unless they confused 'super business model' with 'business super model' and have been paying some leggy blonde $9 million a year to wear a gray pantsuit around the production facility. [/misdirect] Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: WillS on April 21, 2012, 09:25:27 PM stock turn signals are always under rated
Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: teddy037.3 on April 22, 2012, 01:14:47 PM stock turn signals are always under rated not on the tard. that shit is HAWT. well, when they're wired right ;) Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: 118811 on May 02, 2012, 01:49:03 PM Heres the S4R fairing...think I like it better than the black 696/1100 Bikini model, so its off to ebay!!
I wish I could angle it back more but the DP gauge cluster won't allow it :P (http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/118811/IMG_2351.jpg) (http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/118811/IMG_2352.jpg) (http://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss192/118811/IMG_2349.jpg) Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: Speed 3 Pilot on May 03, 2012, 12:00:30 PM not bad, not bad...
Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: MadDuck on May 03, 2012, 10:37:38 PM But now that will throw off the red front fender that you guys haven't seen yet.
Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: 118811 on May 03, 2012, 11:09:41 PM But now that will throw off the red front fender that you guys haven't seen yet. I did a temp red fender install....but I prefer the carbon fiber one. I think I am going to stay with this fairing and redo the belly pan..no stripe 8) Been spending too much money on these mods!! I just got set of Apex 4'' riser clip on...with tons of adjustability. Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: DRKWNG on May 10, 2012, 12:59:25 AM Been spending too much money on these mods!! There's a comment that sums this up quite well... ;D Title: Re: Old Monster ---- New Mods Post by: Speed 3 Pilot on May 10, 2012, 07:19:25 AM There's a comment that sums this up quite well... ;D For just about all of us... ;D |