Single sided swingarm
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Single sided swingarm - 8/2/2005 11:11:26 PM
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wingnut1
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Just finished the reconstruction on my 98 blade. On Oct 15 2004 someone turned left in front of me and totaled the bike. 5 months later and about a thousnd dollars spent it is up and running and sounding good.
When I healed I decided to do a sssa conversion. Without doing my homework I found a sssa for a 2001 vfr 800 on ebay, what a deal 220 dollars. Well to my suprise it didn't work swingarm was 2 wide to fit the blade frame.
I posted back on ebay with a disclaimer that it doesn't fit a 900 conversion and sold it for 200 dollars.
After research I found that the 93 thru 97 vfr 750 was the required swingarm needed for the conversion. So I bought one off ebay. Here is a WARNING make sure it is post 93 swingarm, if you buy one in 1993 they produced 2 swingarms one that bolts right up and one that requires alot of work. I ordered pre 93 and had to do alot of machine work. I took it to the local machine shop they manufactured the lower bung (attachment point swingarm side for shock brackets) welded it in and presto sssa conversion completed almost.
The rim was the next thing. Who wants to run a 155 tire from the 93? not me so I had a rim from the 2001( fits a 180) I mentioned earlier figured it would bolt right up. NOPE. The disc for the 93-97 uses bolts that cause the rim to not sit flat on the hub assembly. Back to the machine shop. So they removed 4 notches to match the protruding bolts from the disc. Also had the manufacture the 25mm od 20mm id and 20 mm lenght spacer required.
Finally the conversion was done new tire all was good. Put the exhaust back on. S&%t it blocked everthing, all that work for the exaust to block it. So I started to look for and underseat exhaust 1600 dollars was the cheapest I could find. Screw that ill mkae my own.
Took a D&D pipe cut 10 inchs out of it rerivited it back together, cost:free
Back to machine shop for mandril bent pipe , cost 35 dollars
To the local muffler shop to get it welded in, cost 55 dollars
Making your own underseat exhaust: pricless
Of course there was the trimming of the undertail, relocation of the CDI, header wraping the pipe, maufacturing of a under pan and heat shield and modifications to the tail of the bike.,
Now during all of this I repaired all the plastics, and order a s@%t ton of parts from ebay.
All in all it took around 100 hr of my time over a 5 month period and a thousand dollars but I feel it is worth it, and I am the only sssa I have ever seen in North Carolina......
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RE: Single sided swingarm - 8/3/2005 4:48:01 AM
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chainstretcher
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Ya got any pictures?
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RE: Single sided swingarm - 8/3/2005 10:29:04 AM
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wingnut1
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sure what kind are u looking for?
The build or the complete
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RE: Single sided swingarm - 8/3/2005 6:16:25 PM
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chainstretcher
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Anything you'd like to share -- well, that have to do with the bike
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