restoring & adding a modern touch to a 86 vf500

Normally you can find F2 front wheels on eBay in the $100-125 range. It's actually kind of handy that you can't use the rotors because they are usually a lot cheaper without them. If you do buy one with rotors you can always sell them off and recoup some of the money.

 

None that cheap at the moment.

 

today i had to make a hard decision after pulling all of the body panels off the bike did a look at everything the plan was to stripe the bike down and replace rebuild redo re whatever, well i cant do it! there nothing wrong with anything on the bike the frame doesnt have any rust on it nothing wrong or broken! so i will say sorry to those of who read this thread thinking there going to get to a page where i pull the whole bike down, not going to happen now should change the name of the thread to modernizing a vf500 :biggrin: i will work on the front end this winter do the carb swap and few other things i had in the works.

 

Here's one for $50:

HONDA HAWK NT650 NT GT 650 CBR600 F2 94 FRONT WHEEL RIM:eBay Motors (item 290373629692 end time Nov-30-09 13:41:14 PST)


Keep your eye out, the prices come and go, as do the number of auctions. Don't be afraid to check eBay daily for a month or two. I get the daily e-mails for my saved searches, that seems to help.

 

Why is that a tough decision? When you are lazy like me and only work 60-70 hours per week you jump at the chance to not have work on something!

 

Thanks Jamie.

Matt....what's the deal with the slimmer Rad Fan?

 

that just it, its slimmer free up some more room is all

 

I can see that Johnny obvious :tongue:

But where is it from?

How does it mount?

Any crazy modifications needed?

 

its from a 954RR still working how it mounts, it does flow more than the stock fan so there a plus for me! i was just looking for a fan that didt take up so much room

 

That's pretty sweet....keep us updated on how it goes.

 

well i got the fan kinda mocked up i'm gonna make a bracket that attaches to where the radiator mounts to the frame i've already cut the plug off the stock fan going to use it with the new fan so this will be sorta plug n play thats about it for now

 

You should not be working that close to those forks! Man, I was super careful not to scratch them. Haven't you seen what a radiator can do to some knuckles, let alone some sweet red powdercoating!

All kidding aside, thanks for the photos. Fans are like any other electrical device: they can and will fail. It's nice to see this as a performance upgrade as well as a means to replace the stock parts with more readily available (and probably cheaper) options.

 

cooling fan upgrade

Thank you for posting the photos. This looks like a nice upgrade for the VF500F. Please keep us updated on the development of the design for the mounting bracket :thumbsup:

 

Be sure that when you hook up the Fan it spins the right way.

It should be a puller....yea?

 

yea it should pull not push

 

shit i treat those forks better than i do my wife! :biggrin:

 

pulled apart the front end today got the old forks off and the new ones on, need to have the new wheel machined then the front will be done..:biggrin:

 

Congratulations! It looks like you are making good progress & thank you for posting the photos.

Will you be using the larger CBR600F/F2 rotors vs the stock VF500F rotors?

 

yea i will be upgrading to CBR F2 wave rotors front & rear, i thnk the wave looks cool if nothing else

 

larger rotors

Good deal, this will be a nice upgrade. :thumbsup: