why a swing arm swap? this is more about tires.

[cad600]

I found a 07-09 swing arm for $50 localy, The bigest problem I have with doing a swing arm swap is my rear tire is pretty new LOL. Know the front tire could use a change, any suggestions on that?

Depends on how wide the swingarm is at the pivot. The stock FZR is around 220mm (8-11/16"). You will need to take material from either the swingarm, or frame, or both.

[yamaha_george]

well as we all know ABS (me because i related to my self in the 3rd person) really liked the 95-07 yzf600r swingarm swap with the 99-02 R6 wheel stuffed in it. bmiller copied me and did the same thing on his yzf600r the r6 wheel swap. its simple and easy and it baffels me why no one else has coppied me

ABS,
just freshen my memory but the swing arm bearing pockets need machining off and made deeper don't they ?

[abs929cbrrr]

yes YG, .375" deeper or use a dremal like my buddy did.

[yamaha_george]

yes YG, .375" deeper or use a dremal like my buddy did.

Abs ,
Thanks for that :- so the bearing pockets get deepened by 0.375 inches (3/8 ") BUT that is not just removing 0.375 off the end of each swing arm bolt swing arm tunnel is it I seem to remember that the distance removed from the left (when on bike ) is more than the right to align the wheel / sprocket up with the FZR engine )

Sorry to be a pain but I want to a bullet point how to that compares solutions in order to quantify the ease or difficulty.

In my book this is probably the most difficult swap to do except for the single side swing arm swap, as it requires some "engineering input.

Yeh I know your pal did it with a dremel but even though I can port 2 strokes to match to within 1/100 of a CC and air flow them within 0.1 by eye, it would be to me very stressfull worrying about the exactness of the bearing mating surface.

I would go bribe a machinist some place to mill / ream those bearing holes just to get away from the stress

[Spyder]

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[sweekster]

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WTF Joe...you been holding out. Do you still have the fighter?

[shredex]

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