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Good day I am a female owner of a 1994 Yamaha Fzr 600 and was interested in finding out what modifications can be made to the rear wheel to increase tire and rim size? I'm interested in creating a wider profile. Thank you for any information

niquieg wrote:Good day I am a female owner of a 1994 Yamaha Fzr 600 and was interested in finding out what modifications can be made to the rear wheel to increase tire and rim size? I'm interested in creating a wider profile. Thank you for any information

Hi,
welcome aboard, please put your location in your profile as this will help us advise you on parts as not all the FZR markets are the same.

If you use the search engine swing arm mods of all sorts are well covered, from bolt ins to cut & weld the frame for bigger arms.

I do believe the WIKI tech page also has a couple of how -to's. on the subject or you can go here :-


http://www.saltmine.org.uk/fzr/swingarm.html

&


http://www.saltmine.org.uk/fzr/3tj-mod.html
HTH

Lots of choices on this. If you are just looking to get into a 17" rim for easier tire selection then the YZF600 swingarm swap is the best option. It can be done in a weekend if you have all of the parts ready to go. If you just want to wider tire just ot have a wider tire, then you need to go with a R6 swingarm. Much more involved and will require a shop to make some items for you and some mods to the frame. But it does look good and gives you a 180 tire (which is about the max). Or you can go really nutty like I did and go with a VFR single sided swingarm. It is really involved though.

Thank you for the replies i'm looking into my options

niquieg wrote:Thank you for the replies i'm looking into my options

Hi,
I would imagine your choices are limited being on an island as I was in Trinidad so it will be mostly "neccesity will be the mother of invention " although I did at the time own the service dealership for Yamaha bikes.

Yamaha George hit it on the head! My many limitations as I looked at the mod threads surfaced.

niquieg wrote:Yamaha George hit it on the head! My many limitations as I looked at the mod threads surfaced.

N,
ok I had aparts dept I could look over, but no machine shop until I imported a lathe.& yes I am qualified as an engineer.
How ever on the island apart from a mate & a wife who believed in what I could do and neither of them are clued on tech so I was on my own as you are. Today there is the internet all I had was a pen pal (yes ok he is Erik Buell before he started Buell Motors ) so I had something going for me.

I just had ideas of what I wanted and made them work, I taught myself gas welding & then arc welding & TIG (had to bribe a guard to get to that TIG plant at the oil field only after midnight and only when he was on duty)
Paint / upholstery / frame modding / rear sets etc / pipes design (2stroke) / learned to program computers just to run the pipe design math because by hand it took 6 hours to do the calcs on a HP scientific calculator.

It is all doable ask here if you get stuck for engineering help / use this forum as a sounding board just as I used Erik (although here is quicker by email not snail mail :-}

start walking around with a digital caliper, tape measure, notebook & pencil, spot something good measure it talk to "its" owner he/ she may know of ajunked one or even own a spares bike. see if there is a junk dealer (scrap yard is too upmarket to be used on the islands)


Take a look at the links in my sig may just give you some inspiration as to what you can do with hand tools & some sweat