The past

This is all kinds of out of order, but I have faith that you can handle it. We were going to make this whole thing into kind of a time lapse deal... but for one reason or another that never happened. So I'm going to go ahead and throw a couple of the teardown shots up as they are.

Loudbike's broken. That's why several of the last posts have dealt with the rebuilding of her head. Some friends stopped by a few Saturdays ago to help me break her down so that we could try and find what all the trouble was about, and I think we did.

 Once we had the head off the bike we could tell that the cam chain was binding up, and was visibly stretched, so it needed to be replaced. Chris just happened to have one that he had mistakenly bought off eBay so we were good to go. Only problem is that to replace the cam chain you have to completely take the motor apart... and I mean completely.

 

 Also this is a tappet adjuster set screw... it had come loose and was bouncing around in the bottom of the cam chain chamber. This is what had caused the binding of the chain. I'm still not sure if it was the root of my problems though.

The half way point

Back together, sort of. The head is shot which you'll see soon enough, so I had to take one off another motor and swap it in which so far has taken a couple of weeks.

PAIR

First things first:

This has got to go

along with all this

Made for a Hyabusa... but PH balanced for me:

...and this

Much cleaner:

People over at VFRD have been saying that you should never remove the plenum because it screws up the sync... but I don't understand how this can be without adjusting anything on the carbs themselves. If anyone can back this up I'd love to hear. The carbs are long in need of a good cleaning and maybe even a full on rebuild, so I'll have to get in there no matter what. It sounds as if everyone's just afraid to touch them, the issue seems to be with the cross over tubes which can get broken when handled.

In the beginning

I picked up a '94 VFR750F for a price that I couldn't say no to, so far I've been calling her Cinder (you know, lightweight rocks that float, or Cinderella, or whatever you want. It works on so many levels :) )

Hopefully this space will help me keep tabs on all the work that's going to go into this thing.

Got it for $660

It came with a handful of extra parts including the pretty cracked up underseat fairings. A dash that had some cosmetic damage, none of the mechanics of it were touched. It's a California bike so I get to rip a bunch of junk out of it first thing. I got this bike to do an RC30 clone because that's what I've always wanted.