Hi Guys, I am needing some help here. It is probably the first post of many so please be kind as this is my first VFR. I have a lot of motorcycle experience but NO vfr knowledge. I just became an owner of a crashed 1998 VFR800. I have started romoving all of the cracked fairings and broken pieces. I was changing the oil today and next to the filter is this obnoxious cannister. I am assuming that this is a smog type piece as it is similar looking to all of the California crap I had to remove from my old race bikes. Question is this? Can I ditch this and what do i need to block off? Also it seems there is a pipe that leads to an electrical connector on the left side of the frame. I have not experienced any electrical connectors when removing this type of stuff in the past. What is it for and can I/How do i get rid of it? Many thanks for any advice. cheers Jon :numbness:
First download or buy a Honda shop manual for your bike. My 98 is a CA model too and ditching the smog gear is easy. That electrical connector goes to a solenoid valve on the right side of bike. pull the connector off, tape it up and bury it inside the bike. Unbolt the solenoid and throw in the the round file. Take the big can off and do the same. What's left is a bunch of hoses. You will need to prop up the tank to finish the job. Once you have the tank propped up. look for a 5 way hose connection that is plugged in from the solenoid. See that? Ok, what you need to do is make it look like the 49 state bike. Pull the 4 hoses, trim them to plug into the side of the airbox points just like the 49 state bike. Then shit can the excess hose. -- That's the job off the top of my head. Once you download the pictures, it will all make sense. Cheers
This should help: http://www.vfrdiscussion.com/forum/index.php/files/download/228-vfr800-9801-servicemanual/
Thanks mate! already got it! Im looking at what a mess it all is! Trying to find the diagram of the Non Calif. model now. Cheers
Pages 5-54 and 5-55 are what you need. Dude's summation is on the money. The four starter valve hoses just get parked onto stubs on either side of the airbox; they only get used for synchronising the starter valves during a service. If you want to take things a step further, you can also eliminate the PAIR system, which bleeds air out of a port on the front of the airbox, through another solenoid valve, then splits to each cam cover and then through a reed valve into the exhaust port. Section 21-28. You need to buy or fabricate blanking plates for the camcovers, and plug the airbox port. Makes no difference to the way the bike runs, but gets rid of more ugly hose on a bike that already has WAY too much.
