My 5.5gen VFR

I revived this 1998 over the winter. Still have a few loose ends to tie up but she'll do for now.

The video is 8.5min long with the final product shown at the end.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/lDScHfeyYxE

Very nice, good work. Thanks for bringing the bike back!

Great job Tink! -- Curious about the mirrors - what are they? -- looks good...

Kudos! - Nice video!

mello dude

Great job Tink! -- Curious about the mirrors - what are they? -- looks good...

Kudos! - Nice video!

Thanks - glad you guys liked it. I'd have to do some digging to figure out exactly which vendor I bought those mirrors from. They were cheap $40 ebay specials.

Nicely done. :fing02:

Wow. Time, talent and treasure went into that one. Nice work.

can't imagine the number of man-hours gone into this...Great Job !!!

When I saw the concept shot - yellow fairing with the RWB tailsection - I thought, really? But the final reveal in all yellow was magnificent. Bravo!

Beautiful bike!

I have the same mirrors but flipped around so the smooth side is on top and the angled side is on bottom. It keeps the mirror profile lower I think.

-Drew

what a big job. I salute your efforts. Looks great!

Heck Yea!

I could do that.... if I had .... Nope.

Enjoyed your work.

Mac

Looks great Tink!!

Always amazed at the talents on display at VFRD! Nicely done!

very VERY nice job! She is a beauty

Awesome job, I love seeing projects like this come to completion.

Have you got another one lined up yet?

Noobtastic14

Beautiful bike!

I have the same mirrors but flipped around so the smooth side is on top and the angled side is on bottom. It keeps the mirror profile lower I think.

-Drew

I had tried them that way as well and liked the look. I had a concern with the LEDs being on the bottom of the mirror in that orientation and possibly less visible while daytime riding.

Very nicely Done!!! Combined the best of all worlds... 5th gen gear driven cams, lost the dumbo blinkers, and married on the 6th gen under tail exhaust... like I said, VERY NICELY DONE!!! Love the yellow and black bumble bee color combo

Where does the line form? Me next!!!!

When I originally set out, I thought I could make this a quasi-bolt on mod and fabricate extra mounts for sale. I finally gave up and just made it work for myself.

The real shocker came when I discovered the ECU would not fit in the rear and the whole wiring harness had to be customized.

The rear brake master and exposed header pipes are my favorite part of the whole build. I think it could be a cool cosmetic mod to any 5th gen.

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Movie was pretty cool, thanks for showing your work, seeing more of the front end exposed without plastic in the way makes me wonder again about the changes required to strip an RC46 down and transform it into a naked bike. If it wasn't for the cooling system... I had wondered what the area behind the headlights looked like but the video makes it seem pretty easy to deal with that and hang a headlamp from the forks. But that cooling system would take a lot of very creative work to make visually clean.

pres589

Movie was pretty cool, thanks for showing your work, seeing more of the front end exposed without plastic in the way makes me wonder again about the changes required to strip an RC46 down and transform it into a naked bike. If it wasn't for the cooling system... I had wondered what the area behind the headlights looked like but the video makes it seem pretty easy to deal with that and hang a headlamp from the forks. But that cooling system would take a lot of very creative work to make visually clean.

thanks. as for your cooling comment - I would take the old radiators up to a local radiator shop and have one custom heat exchanger built to suit the project. Probably see if they had the skills to curve the core.

Sweet job Tink! :fing02:

-Your wire harness rework blows me away! :cool:

mello dude

Sweet job Tink! :fing02:

-Your wire harness rework blows me away! :cool:

Blew me away too. It was the one biggest things I hadn't anticipated in this project. I didn't expect the brakes to become what they did either but I did know I was going to have some sort of issues there.

I could not find anywhere in the rear to stuff that brick of an ECU. I started a thread here looking for the ECU connector sockets and tried a half a dozen other places I could think of. No one could find the correct pins. That is until a day or two AFTER I butchered the old one ( http://www.corsa-technic.com/ )

So I had to completely unwrap the harness, take all the ECU wires and fold them over toward the front, then trim and extend wires as needed to reach that location. Was NOT how I would choose to do things but could find no other option at the time. Maybe this winter I'll take that spare harness I have now and some new pins and build one without solder connections.

tinkerinWstuff

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Wow, incredible job and it looks fantastic! :fing02:

Looks killer nice job!

781

does the rear master cyl get hot at all?

AB-Oz

does the rear master cyl get hot at all?

I do not believe so. I don't have technical data but would love to compare some actual temp readings with an OEM setup. I do have my leg sitting right there and do not notice heat. It's my opinion that the right side plate on the 5th gen is more about aesthetics than function. When you look at how the OEM brake lines are routed right next to the engine and down along the exhaust, there's ample heat saturation happening anyway.

I haven't boiled the fluid out of it yet or baked the paint off the master cylinder :) Thanks for asking your question and if I get an opportunity to get some measurable data, I will be sure to post.

Great job! I have had a 6th gen rear sub frame for a year done nothing.

reagarding the rear brake and your excellent re-engineering of, did you consider mounting the 6th gen footpegs and mounting "buns" on the 5th gen frame?

keith

I never got my hands on a set of 6gen rearsets etc in order to see just how hard it would have really been. From the photos I studied, it didn't look easy. Lots of pros and cons either way. Riding with some 6gen friends today and will have to look at that harder.