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I will be adding a brace , but the last arm I made ended up with its brace a little closer to the chain than I would have liked, so it'll wait until it can be mocked up in situ

time for more of a mock up, this time with the engine in to allow a chain to be added. I chopped up a sacrificial tank to help with the rear area of the frame , then tacking on one side and clamping the second between bits of wood to get it level , getting that all squared up was fun  

 

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all this time I've been trying to gather up enough money for a Nitron , a nice shock is just a nice thing to have , then just after I pull the trigger on it I get offered a pair of Braking by OZ wheels from a K2 , of course i'm now skint, so cue a frantic selling of nice things I've make for other builds ....

got the wheels, they're no lighter than stock, but sooo much cooler 

also found a set of NRC covers on the bay, K4 stuff rarely shows up, I just had to have them 

getting quite trick about here.... and as we'll find out, the NRC were a wise investment 

a little horse trading has me a Harris oil filler cap and sprint steering damper from Blair McCaul (the damper will be replaced with an Ohlins) and a Leo Vince can from my mate Seb in the USA( which will be superseded by a Harris can from Blair) the can and damper finally found a home on my TL Hyper 

the spring on the Nitron was found to be too heavy, and will soon be swapped out for a lighter item

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time to start thinking about bodywork 

with hindsight the tank proved to be a folly, I spent a fortune on kevlar, resin and fibreglass, it took fuckin ages, and ended up weighing a tonne. I did get a season out it before the pinhole leaks got too much.... but we'll get to that 

checking pics, it would appear i started on the tail first,  the tail buck and subframe kind of developed in conjunction with each other . The buck was kingspan, glued and screwed into a block , the seat is from a Yamarharr R125 and it would appear by this point I've blagged Deeks mt headlight (cheers mate) 

 

think that'll need to do for the day, more tomorrow 

 

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right, we got to tank ...

this was an epic, of biblical proportions

 

Initial thought was an ally tank, but doubts crept in, could i do it.... could i do it well ?  Then it was fuel cell and cover (which is what i should have done) , but then I saw a you tube thing with a guy making a glass tank ... I can do that.... 

i discovered early on in the tail build that kingspan doesn't melt with acetone, ( that had been the suggested choice for melting out the buck) , but luckily enough I managed to purloin some blue foam stuff. as you can see from the pics I was still deluding myself into thinking the airbox would fit) . I then spent the next few weeks rubbing down, shaping, building up , repeat until I had the massifist tank you ever saw , and I was happy 

TBC

 

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as much as i tried, I kept having cracks, gaps and crappy bits in the foam, so I skinned it with packing tape, resin don't stick to packing tape. I also have to get fuel in and out , so the sacrificial tank was relieved of its filler neck and pump mount and they were grafted into the buck

 

ignore the tail, we'll get back to that  

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I then spent the rest of my life and every penny I've ever made throwing layers of of glass and kevlar onto the tank , the result being a tank that weighs as much as the engine

then i thought I'd better try the fuel pump ..... ooohhhh.... that was close , if that pump had hit the shock mount all the toys would have been out the pram 

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time to get all wibbly wobbly back in time 

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I picked up an SV1000 tail light, it's straight, while i would have preferred curved, but it's close enough. the full buck was then skinned in glass, a section cut out to suit the light, then it was all stuck back together with fibreglass and kevlar . There was prob  more stages, but that's the gist of it 

 

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back outside for a looky look,  you don't get much perspective inside a small , very full shed 

the brace was made up and fitted with the finest duct tape to be sure to avert any disasters, then back in the jig and properly glued 

 

I think the arm was pretty much done by now , but still a shit tonne of stuff to do 

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OK, rearsets 

the frame was never made to suit any standard rearsets,  they were designed to fit the seahorses. The pegs are Ti, dunno what grade, a friend gave me some offcuts. 

One piece was difficult to drill , really difficult, the other bit...... fuckinell..... it was nearly abandoned on several occasions,  even tried spark eroding through it , to no avail,  managed it tho, but the idea of tapping it was abandoned. It turned no problem and milled ok with tipped cutters 

Nylon sliders were made for the ends with holes drilled through to suit the allen key

 

I wanted kevlar heel plates , so I made some flat kevlar on my stainless bin lid , cut them to shape, drilled the holes and clear coated them 

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perusing the internerd , as you do, i found a nice filler cap , think it was a vortex item , but will I fuck be spending that kind of money on a filler cap .  I bothered my turner friend again for a male and female thread, then set about making my own . It screws together and has a little sprung lock, to be fair it shuts a little too tight once the o ring is added, but it works 

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more resin and kevlar , 

a friend had chopped up a GSXR muddie, and went a little to far, it was bin fodder, so I set about it and turned it into something one off-ish 

I thought about aftermarket instruments, decided the stock item could be just as good, I stripped the back off, smoothed it and skinned it with kevlar and made a nice Ti bracket, the bracket ended up skinned in kevlar too as the clocks were too bouncy 

The MT03 headlight had its surround popped off and given the message while I was at it  

all these items would be tarted up later 

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I like steering dampers, might not always need them..... but this time I do , it's fair to say it gets somewhat squirrely without it . 

the initial mock up bracket was ugly as fuck, but it was never going to be anything other than mock up, once it looked like it would work a decent bracket was machined up.  An anchor point was welded to the frame and a post bolted to it.  It did loosen off on the way back from the last TT,  proper spoiled the big sweeping bend into the Gretna services 

 

oh, yeah, this is the Ohlins that replaced the sprint 

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21 hours ago, yantosh said:

I then spent the rest of my life and every penny I've ever made throwing layers of of glass and kevlar onto the tank , the result being a tank that weighs as much as the engine

then i thought I'd better try the fuel pump ..... ooohhhh.... that was close , if that pump had hit the shock mount all the toys would have been out the pram 

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That looks like a lot of work.

You would have to make a mould of the tank and use vacuum bags and all the special layers that go with it to get a tank without pinholes. And it will still need a liner to stop the crappy stuff in the fuel from eating the inside.

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