1986 VFR750F Upgrade Kit

Yeah !


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So, the sub-frame on this bike was pretty nice. It was a replacement that my friend bought after he twisted up the original. Rear of the bike was torn apart and not finished, that's when I bought it. And why. He just lost interest. I had another subframe that the holes for the passenger peg ball bearing detents were fucked up on and decided that would be the one I'll use for this bike. Spent hours this week eliminating the majority of the mounts and grinding/shaping/facing what was left and retaining the muffler mounts and an eyelet.



Great. So what do I do next? Start on a completely different subframe for this bike! I decided that now THIS subframe would be perfect for the next 86 VFR750F RestoMod that I have been restoring parts for and tucking away. That bike is getting new Kerker slip ons that use the stock muffler mounts very nicely.

The rear Yosh pipes on stock muffler connectors I have created want to sit a little higher. Which is good, because with the welded on mounts before the muffler canisters, they are usually quite long looking.

So pull ANOTHER sub-frame out of the Parts Dept. This one had damage to the left passenger peg tubing / muffler mounts, so it was a perfect candidate for what I wanted to do.



I'll create some new struts for where this new system can sit. I have heated, smushed and drilled the remaining sub-frame stubs for new custom struts.

This is how much higher the new mount location will be.



Very happy with the angle. It worked perfect combining the rear Yosh sections and the stock connectors with cross-over.



Mufflers are repacked. They were pretty rough, so this was not a resto, just cleaned up the canisters with some 3M and shot the pipes with some ceramic high heat paint.

 

Love the vision and forethought Captain..!

 

Nice!

 

Well, this should do for something you can't see. It was a pretty quick clean up, prep and paint.



Mounting stubs cleaned up and radiused.



Created the struts a couple nights ago. Radiused, sandblasted and painted them yesterday with the subframe.



Got lucky on the weather and didn't have to set up the booth for just a couple pieces. Weather is turning as I type for the next week, so good timing.

 

Oh, hell yeah. Came out real nice.



Extra length on the shock hose was perfect.



Brackets are sano and solid. Very happy.

 

A couple words pop up for me

Solid
Clean


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Thanks dude. I've been wanting to do this sub-frame mod and custom struts for a few years now. I'm glad I did it on this bike. The Yosh mash-up exhaust was perfectly suited for it.

 

Here we go...



Seems to be a pretty good pilot. The camera lens angle makes it look off, but somehow I got it perfectly centered on an uneven broken surface. When I moved up to the next size it starting screwing in... pretty easily. OK then. I continued in to see if it was short enough to go all the way out the back. CLOSE... but it ran into the crankcase. So I cleaned up the hole and sprayed some WD40 in there. Got a small reamer just to see if it would have enough bite to back it out.



Oh fuck yeah. Time for a Friday cocktail for that one.

 

Flawless victory. Hell yea.

 

Excellent work Cap


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Upgrade Kit included a detail. Some Wet Wipes, some old fingernail polish for touch up, Armor All and some Vaseline smeared on the camera lens.

Came out pretty good.

 

Gorgeous, Capt! These RWB bikes......sublime!

 

Rolled it outside for it's first run before the next weather system rolls in.



It sounds WICKED good. Throttle response feels perfect. Settles back down to idle nicely. Stoked.

 

Fuck! That sounds wicked!


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Yeah.....a baaaad mamma jamma...

 

SICK!! Very nice Capt! Love the HRC Yosh sticky!

 

Thank you. It's a plaque made to go on an exhaust canister. I've had an extra one for a while and I thought it was a cool spot for this bike. I added the black Honda mark on top of the original recessed one so it was raised (and black) like the HRC/Yosh plaque.

 

It looks great. You do nice work dude! You should be getting a fender soon.