The FZ-R1 project Update:10/8/14

[shredex]

ok, I just lifted my front back up about 1 1/8", so that leaves it lowered 1 1/8" because It was 2 1/4", and I relocated my bars to under the triple tree...
The reason I did this is so it misses the tank fairing...and also if you look at newer bike to the seat hight to bar height, there are alot closer in height than older bikes....which is why there less comfertable...but Im all for looking good!

[deernet]

You know... If I was worried about riding wheelies, I'd raise it back up all the way.

[shredex]

WOW. You really dropped the bars. Id like to know how that will ride like that.

Moey, with the fzr 250 also has his bars like this...
its going to ride the same, but Ill be more hunched over like modern sportbikes, because modern day ones also have theres under the triple trees.

You know... If I was worried about riding wheelies, I'd raise it back up all the way.

Bike leans to far over on its kick stand when it all the way up...iv had the bike blow over because of it...
and if I raise it, then Its just going to be too high up

...no one on the forums realizes how much better looking there bike looks when you drop the front 2 inches...no joke...the front view is more pleasing and everything....and I can do wheelies fine...I can actually do them better than my buddy who is on his 07 gsxr600

take a look at the all around height of this bike...(how close the front fairing is to the front wheel...how close to the ground it is...how much it sticks up in the rear...also notices the bars are under the triple trees..) you have to realy study it...



the other guys that put r1 fairings on there bikes, well, there is always something off on them...and its because it wasnt low enough...

[shredex]

I also forgot to mention how fun it was doing all that by myself...
I had to literly lift the bike with one hand and tighten the bolts with the other....not fun....and not fun on my back...

[shredex]

Time for some plastic welding !!!

I used cut threads of some old plastic divider thing


Here is a little tab I had to make from scratch and plastic weld on. Its a tab that hold the side fairing to the front fairing.


Heres the one thats not broken on the other side


welding the upper!



this part was broken, but not broken off as you can see...welded back together



had to go all the way down the top side of the left fairing where the bike slid...


where you see the plastic weld dip down toward the right, is where it ground threw and made a hole so I filled it and patched it up in the back



sigh*..when will I get a break...

started by making a patch in the back (pic is of me starting the patch)

heres the other side once I was done with the back

had to cut a piece to fill it


done!



and I dicided to fix the cracks in the 250 plastic too!



Thats all for now folks!

[shredex]

You have 27 posts in 6 pages shredex and the FZ-R1 is still not done yet. More work less talk. Im anxious!

[zero9243]

Do you plan on getting the r6 controls then and maybe clean up those cipons and levers? Would be a shame to see those unattended since they look pretty bad and will take a little focus off your other work.

[shredex]

Do you plan on getting the r6 controls then and maybe clean up those cipons and levers? Would be a shame to see those unattended since they look pretty bad and will take a little focus off your other work.

I attend to in the future, (once I get the cash)
get an r1 or r6 intire front setup...forks wheel controls hydraulic clutch...

[shredex]

okay, some more progress...
I have lowered the stay this way temperarly till I can get my stay cut and rewelded...


here is how im holding up the front end temperarly also...



did some more plastic welding and made up my own mount on the fairings...



it connects to that pointless mount right above the radiator mount...I think that is for to hold a mount that holds the stock fzr plastics on though



it suprisingly has made it alot more stable...I did a good job on making the little bracket

its raingin out side...I realized I havent slept since about yesterday morning...I might take a nap and hopefully when I wake It will have stopped raining and I can go out and do some more work on it!

[shredex]

I just won both left and right 04-06 r1 headlights on ebay for $75 shipped...
those things are about $150 EACH...without shipping too, so that about $350 shipped for the set...

I found a tank too! but some A-hole out bit me...It has like 12 hours left on it, and they say if you dont pay up in 3 days then it gets relisted...
I dont have money for it right now...
Go buy some of the stuff I posted in the classified!

heres the tank im trying to get!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayI ... 0012704978

[slayermd]

Any updates?

Ill be doing what you are doing now in a week or so, I have 04-06 R1 race fairings coming my way.

[shredex]

Any updates?

Ill be doing what you are doing now in a week or so, I have 04-06 R1 race fairings coming my way.

well, I havent had the fairings on my bike for about a week cause right now im repairing them and getting my bike running right before I put them on again.
I got the headlights I was speaking of, but it looks like im going to have to either buy a 04-06 r1 stay, or custom make one because the stock stay is WAY in the way... and it looks like Im going to need the front harness to the r1.
your doing just race fairings so you should be good...
BTW, I am planning on making race 04-06 r1 fairings and having them to mount up to the FZR with little to no modifications...and I was going to sell them for like $400 or so...

There is parts of the fairings that your going to have to cut off. Once I get my camera batterys charged, ill take pics of all the places I needed to chop.

Are the race fairings fiberglass? most likely they are...so youll have to make fiberglass mounts like the plastic one I did in one of the posts in here....

let me know when you get your fairings. Ill give more detail once you have it so you can see exactly what I mean

[match417]

it looks like im going to have to either buy a 04-06 r1 stay, or custom make one because the stock stay is WAY in the way... and it looks like Im going to need the front harness to the r1.

two things..1, about the stay, you can bend the stock FZR stay pretty easily, and you might be able to bend it to exactly what you need. I've repaired crashed bikes before where the stay was all crushed up, as long as you have a front fairing, you can bend it any way you want, plus if you get the stock R1 stay, then you might have to figure out how to mount it to the frame, chances are the front of the R1 frame isn't as high as the FZR because of the newer bikes having lower handlebars than our FZR.

The second thing...take a pic of the back of the headlights and send it to me, i'll look up the wiring diagram and tell you how you can wire it so you don't have to buy the harness.

[shredex]

plus if you get the stock R1 stay, then you might have to figure out how to mount it to the frame, chances are the front of the R1 frame isn't as high as the FZR because of the newer bikes having lower handlebars than our FZR.

The second thing...take a pic of the back of the headlights and send it to me, i'll look up the wiring diagram and tell you how you can wire it so you don't have to buy the harness.

I know the fzr stay sits alot higher...which is why I mounted it the way I did in the pictures I posted earlier in the thread...I would just mount the r1 stay the same way and possibly tack weld it onto there...

each headlight has two lights and a turn signal...so that means four lights and two turn signals...
six plugs all together...I have one connecter that can connect to the connecters on the lights...
I dont want to hack up the wires on the lights incase I want to sell them in the future. I can just get the r1 harness and get the female plug to convert the fzr harness so its a basic plug and play once Im done with it..


and heres the 02-03 r1 wire diagram which is pretty much the same as the 04-06
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/zx7hooliga ... wiring.jpg

[shredex]

ok, about the stay, Iv decided to make one from scratch out of aluminum...My bro has a welder for aluminum since he works at grill tech which makes custom grills for cars...

right now im making a templete and getting a drawing done of how this is going to work...