If anyone's interested, here's a complete list of the work I've done:
Fabricated / modified / relocated:
• Aluminum headlight brackets made from aluminum stock and factory clip-ons
• Ignition lock cylinder mount removed, upper triple shaved smooth
• Guage bracket
• Unused mount points on lower triple removed
• Forks lowered internally 1.5", externally 1"
• Extra mount lugs removed from fork tubes
• Aluminum bracket to relocate ignition lock cylinder
• Aluminum brackets for coolant reservior
• Coolant reservior made out of a camping stove fuel bottle - cap modified for overflow, inlet mounted in bottom
• Seat pan shaved and seat shaped from combining factory front and rear seat foam, then shaved to shape. Latching pin mounted in seat pan
• Custom leather seat cover
• Subframe cut, lowered, welded, crossbar for seat latch added
• Battery box custom made
• Rear brake reservior mount
• Front brake reservior mount
• Lower radiator mount bar
• Under-seat storage compartment
• Seat latch / lock cylinder
• Battery / relays / fusebox / CDI / fuel pump relocated
• Wiring harness - shortened, all connectors relocated
• Frame / subframe / swingarm - ram air tubes gound flat, mount lug for factory headlight removed, holes drilled for mounting new brackets / clips / equipment - scratches, scrapes and dings filled
• Side stand shortened
• Clamps / guides for clutch cable
• Mount brackets for tail
• Fiberglass tail (not yet finished)
• Fuel lines
• Radiator fins straightened (my neck still hurts from that one...)
Bolt-ons:
• Vortec race clip-ons
• Ducati Monster headlight
• Pazzo short/long race levers
• Handlegrips
• Braided steel brake lines
• Supertrapp exhaust
• Heaader wrap
• License plate mount
• LED license plate lights
• Oberon foot pegs (ordered from England even!)
• Bar end mirrors
• Solid state flasher relay
• Rear lowering links
• Radiantz stop / turn / tail LED strip (not yet finished)
Parts replaced / new
• Rearset bolts
• Rear axle nut
• Several other rounded-off bolts around the bike
• All various factory bolts replaced with new allen bolts / cap screws, nuts replaced with nylocks the rest are media blasted & polished to be silver
• Upper steering head seal
• Fork seals
• Stator cover gasket
• Chain
• Lower radiator hose
• PCV hose
• Coolant expansion tank hose
• Throttle cables
• Brake reservior hoses
• Radiator bushings
• Tank bushings
• Clutch cable
• All zerk grease fittings
• Tires
• Chrome valve stems
• CDI
• Fuse / relay box
Painted / refinished
• Powder coated: Frame, swingarm, subframe.
• Black w/clear: Tank, wheels, fork tubes, brake rotors, headlight bucket, upper & lower triples, rearsets, heel guards, engine covers, misc brackets, lower radiator mount, coolant expansion tank.
• Wheels pinstriped
• Flat black: Engine, radiator, rear sprocket, storage tray, seat pan, timing cover, headlight ring, side stand, rear brake reservoir
• Every single other part and sub-assembly on this bike, not listed here, down to individual screws, springs and clips, was disassembled, cleaned, repaired and/or rebuilt then polished or painted.
I can't even tell you how screwed up this bike was. EVERY. SINGLE. PART. on this bike was broken, bent, leaking, cracked, put together wrong or just messed up somehow. I even found fix-a-flat in the rear tire! The front tire was on backwards - you think I'm exaggerating, even the bulb filaments were shorted in all the bulbs! Somehow, the headlight bulbs were the reason the high and low beams were reversed! it was endless, even down to re-assembly and a hairline crack in the crankcase causing an oil leak! When I say I disassembled every single assembly on this thing, I mean I even disassembled the brake masters, calipers, key lock cylinders (each one had a different problem) - at some point in the build, everything on this entire bike has been torn down completely into it's individual component parts (except the motor itself) until there was nothing left to disassemble - then fixed and re-assembled. It's fair to say that I'm intimately familiar with every inch of this bike.
Bike was purchased beginning of November for $350.
• According to ebay reciepts, I made about $1300 selling unused parts off the bike.
• Adding up reciepts for money spent shows I put about $1540 into the bike.
• With the purchase price, I spent a net total of $590 on this bike, not including tax, title and license fees.
Still to do:
• Re-wrap the tailpipe and ditch that clamp in the process. I ran out of header wrap 6" short of the end of the pipe, and would have wrapped it the other way to avoid a band at the rear, but I was out of metal bands, so that big ugly clamp had to suffice for now.
• Finish the tail piece / put a proper tail light on it.
• Wet sand the tank to take care of orange peel and a couple runs, and one of the engine covers that ended up with some odd air bubbles in the clearcoat. (Waiting to finish the tail so I can do it all at once)
• White gauge faces or aftermarket gauges.
• Some minor touch-up paint here and there.
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