My interpretation of a FZR - *FINISHED*

[megaloxana]

Damn dude sorry to hear that. Seriously glad you made it w/o a laydown and/or bruises. You live and learn, such is life i suppose.


I'd buy ya a drink if I was closer

[megaloxana]

Damn dude sorry to hear that. Seriously glad you made it w/o a laydown and/or bruises. You live and learn, such is life i suppose.


I'd buy ya a drink if I was closer

Hes been working on this project for a long time and hate to see a road block like this. Good thing its not that bad. More time to work in the garage though.

Yup...and considering he just got it back on the road to ride, which makes it that much worse. It's like it teased him. Gave him a little time to ride and taste the greatness...AND then BAM all taken away

[haunter]

oh my god.

[PIMPMYFZR]

MAN thats it im going to buy a torque wrench tomorrow even if it over draws from my account i dont give a
ever since i put this yzf swingarm even though its got a lock nut doing 90 on the freeway thinking what if my shit falls apart .. my right side cover for axle adjuster came off last night whil i was riding on freeway didnt even notice til tonight ..
Thank god thats all that happened .sucks

[megaloxana]

MAN thats it im going to buy a torque wrench tomorrow even if it over draws from my account i dont give a
ever since i put this yzf swingarm even though its got a lock nut doing 90 on the freeway thinking what if my shit falls apart .. my right side cover for axle adjuster came off last night whil i was riding on freeway didnt even notice til tonight ..
Thank god thats all that happened .sucks

Yeah this almost happened to me last season. I looked down and the cover was on its last threads..eek! Scared me bigtime. I have two torque wrenches, but I rarely use them on the bike(dumb). Really dumb considering vibrations are crazy on the bike.

[haro504]

thats my biggest fear is the chain comming off and getting bound up locking the rear wheel its hard to keep it up likethat happened once on a dirtbike lucky i wasent going that fast.

[sweekster]

Things of that nature scare me quite well and easy. I currently have 5 torque wrenches just because I'm leary of things coming loose or leaking. Sorry this happened but the bright side is it happened close to home and it wasn't violent nor did the bike cause you any more physical harm than you've already incurred. A secondary part to the bright side is, although being kind of forced, you have the opportunity to go over everything again and make sure you are happy and comfy with. I've watched this build from it inception and I would rather see it take you longer and be done both right and to your liking than to read a post in this thread stating you were hurt-get me?

Ok I'm off the soap box now. Calm down, get your drinky drinky on, and get her done right....

[Genesis]

Glad to hear your OK, The bike well be as good as new soon, don't sweat it.

[thatkid]

GAH!! Man that blows! I'm really sorry. Glad you are ok though. Man that seriously sucks about the sprocket too.

I loctite everything now. After my rear calipers splitting on 2 different occasions and my stator cover coming loose and almost binding on the flywheel which locked up my wheel for a split second at 80mph, I don't mess around anymore. Loctite is my friend. I'm throwing you some cash for those drawings man. Hopefully it'll help a little with a new sprocket.

[cad600]

Thanks guys. Luckly nothing else happened. I was going in a straight line and was even slowing down to come up to a stop light when it happened. Could have been really bad though.

I'll get it running again soon. But I've got to look over everything to make sure nothing else got fried. This time I'm going with a normal sprocket. I'm not waiting for 4 weeks let alone 3 months to replace it. I do need to look for the remaining parts out on the road though. That way I can see how many I need to replace vs. re-use.

The pods sounded sweat when it started getting into the higher rev range. I did notice the ever so slight bog in the 6-7500 rpm range that everyone else encounters. Other than that, it pulled like a champ. I am going to need to figure out one other issue as well. It doesn't want to start on it's own. It had only been siting for three days and I had to push start it again. The battery is brand new and full charged. When I push start it, it runs great. It is definatly electrical. I think I need to replace the strator and maybe the VR again. I can't see it being the coils or computer because the thing wouldn't run at all if it is one of thoughs items. We'll see.

[the_finch]

Man, bike looks sweet....and it's good that nothing bad happened to you when it came apart. I can sort of relate, as my clutch cable came loose and detached itself from the clutch pushrod mechanism on my shakedown ride from installing my 520 conversion. Talk about fun in traffic, not having a funcitonal clutch.

Now on to the stuff you might already know.

With the electrical, are the headlights coming on when you turn on the key? Because if they do and it still won't start, it could just be a starter solenoid or the starter switch itself that is to blame. If the lights won't even turn on, you could have a bad VR or a parasitic voltage leak. I'd run through the charging flow chart (done by Naeslas of the FZRArchives, I think) here:
http://naes.afraid.org/hosting/Diagnosis/charge.jpg
It helped me figure out that my VR was bad, and it might help you out a little.

[cad600]

Well the switch is only about 2 years old. The lights so come on when I turn the key. I have replaced the VR, but when I first hooked it up it did it backwards. Don't think it fried that easily, but it is possible. I think it is the strator. I was begining to have the same starting problems beofre the acceident too. I've got an extra one I purchased for a different engine build so I think I'll try that one. If it doesn't work then I'll buy a new aftermarket one. The starter is kicking pretty good when I hit the button so I don't think it's that. I've tripple checked all my wires and grounds so it's got to be a part that needs replacing.

[cad600]

Since I had to take some fairings off, thought some might be interested in under the tail. I bolted a long piece of aluminum where the side fairing mounts where located. Bolted a seat latch to that. Those items hold the tail section and seat in place. Had to come up with some brackets for the tail light which is from a Ducati 748. I also strapped the overflow from a Yamaha Raptor to it. Works well like that.



First of the replacement parts came in. I started looking for the rear sprocket carrier but they almost never come up by themselves. Honda wants too much for a new one. So I found this on fleabay. Got the hole thing for what Handa wants just the one part. It's in better shape than the original one I started with.



Here is the new sprocket. Third one I've bought for this buid. I decided not to get the fancy coating. Which turned out to be a good thing. They cut and shipped the sprocket in one afternoon.



I'm thinking about changing the tail. I finally came across the exhaust I really want. Only problem is the exhaust can is like $700. The other parts aren't too bad so I may start buying parts and wait until I can afford the exhaust to so the swap. Here is basically what I'm thinking about doing.

[cad600]

Well, I picked up one more new to me part. I was getting sick of the Atlanta summer heat and humitity with the traffic I would sometimes get stuck in. The bike would get up near the red mark if I got stuck at one of the longer traffic lights on my way to/from work. If I hit the light a second time, all bets where off. So I upgraded to a YZF600 radiator. But when I got it, it didn't look that much bigger. So a little more searching brought me to a ZX7R radiator. I put it next to the FZR rad just for compairison. It's massive.

[megaloxana]

IMHO...that exhaust is goofy as hell. Its like what rice is to a car.