Cinder

I picked up a '94 for a price that I couldn't say no to, so far I've been calling her Cinder (you know, lightweight rocks that float, or Cinderella, or whatever you want. It works on so many levels :crazy

Hopefully this space will help me keep tabs on all the work that's going to go into this thing.



Got it for $660







It came with a handful of extra parts including the pretty cracked up underseat fairings. A dash that had some cosmetic damage, none of the mechanics of it were touched. It's a California bike so I get to rip a bunch of junk out of it first thing. I got this bike to do an RC30 clone because that's what I've always wanted.

 

First things first:

This has got to go



along with all this





Made for a Hyabusa... but PH balanced for me:




...and this



Much cleaner:



People over at VFRD have been saying that you should never remove the plenum because it screws up the sync... but I don't understand how this can be without adjusting anything on the carbs themselves. If anyone can back this up I'd love to hear. The carbs are long in need of a good cleaning and maybe even a full on rebuild, so I'll have to get in there no matter what.

 

Starting in on the RC30 goodness



I'm not a great modeler so this will be a challange, but "don't try 'nuthin, won't learn 'nuthin" I'm not entirely sure what function the model will serve other than good practice because I might just go ahead and use the fairings I bought right out of the box, but at the very least it will be good for fitting up parts, and at the most if I find that I do need to redo it wholesale I'll have a head start. I'd like to do an updated RC30 (along the lines of the '05 Mustang) but as of right now I can't come up with anything I want to change, and I'm not going to force it.

Picked this up locally


very excited to see this show up:

 

Made myself a practice rearset:





It wasn't intended to be a practice piece, but it doesn't really fit, so there you go. This one was broken off the bike when I got it. I think the next one I do will have a more stock style peg mount... that will require a much fatter piece of stock though.

 

More practicing :\











I tried to make them as simple as possible and use just 2 M6s to clamp them, but the off center tension on the bars does not work. Also my 7/8" trough ended up undersized so they don't really fit. They work great for now for pushing the bike around the garage, but when I get closer to riding it I'll have to knock out a stronger set.

 

Ebay'd a new tank, and it's my favorite color









it's from a 3rd gen so the rear mount needs to be modified a bit for it to fit. I haven't figured out the best way to do this yet. I might just end up filling in the old hole and making a new one

 

The tank tells me somebody stunted with it. Hard to believe with a VFR, they are not exactly a toss around kind of bike.
Very cool that you have CAD and billet and machining available to you.
She looks better already.

 

Keep the updates comin

 

With the help of a friend of mine we managed to get her running, not very well, but that was without the plenum or the stacks on the carbs (which have black rubbery tar in them) and it was without an exhaust. So I'm feeling a little bit better about my mystery purchase, not that I felt bad, but it was nice to hear her wake up.

...and now that I know she works, back to tearing her up:



Had a little more water in her than I thought... this is what happens when an airhead tries his hand for the first time at a waterbike. There are 5 other bikes in my garage and this never would happen to any of them!

looking naked


with my old Ducati (back in the garage for some paintwork fixing for the new owner)

 

Most of this thread has covered the last few months of work (from whatever the date on that CL ad is to now). What follows in this post was mostly yesterday or the day before.

I love my wife!!








This makes me smile... I love gears


I've got a friend that owns a sign shop who just started doing powder, so I'm going to get all this stuff ready for him and drop it off at his shop. If I don't rush him and don't abuse the deal sometimes he'll do my stuff for free.

I'm planning on having all that done in magnesium-ish gold. Not orignial I know, but I like it and that's what counts.

So that's up to date as of this morning... more to come as time allows.

 

Yeah, actually if you go back to the original post (and click on the craigslist ad), he even said it in the ad.

Thanks

 

Very awesome progress Mysta. The pictures are now working in the later threads too!

 

Thanks, yeah I was copy and pasting the addresses from my FTP site and they got messed up along the way, my bad.

 

35 thousanths, that's the runout on my rear brake disk, and you can hear it drag... damn stunters. I just looked at the price of the disk and I don't want to repeat it because this is a family forum. I don't know what is out of round yet, but something in there's screwed, and the wheel's bent all to hell. Fortunately the fourth gen wheel's the ugliest one ever made... anyone got a 3rd gen I can take off your hands

 

Good luck with that one! Those things are like gold in these parts...
Killer job so far.

 

Yeah I know, just before I bought mine I missed out by 15 minutes on a craigslist sale of a thrashed 3rd gen for $500, I just wanted the wheel. It was on CL for exactly 1 hour... and I hesitated. I still kick myself for that one. If my spindle's bent I might just have to look into a single nut conversion and get one of these:

 

Just went back and read the CL ad.
He called it a "v twin" :rofl:

He had no idea what he was riding.

 

Nice work so far brother, keep it up.

BZ

 

Nice project. Keep up the great work!