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Simple old school + new school, call it pre skool

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I like this ALOT !! .......kudos 2 U

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Hey guys,
I apologize for the lack of updates, scheduling and money issues ground me to a halt for quite awhile. I continue to collect what I need, stainless tubing and bends for my exhaust and I finally picked up a set of RS36's. Now I guess I will get rid of the RS38's and the FCR39's. For all the hassle I have gone through to save a buck, I should have just bought new!
I am making a short work table so I can quit kneeling on the concrete and so I can raise it up for a better view. I am mocking up an exhaust in the area formerly occupied by the airbox/battery.
Cheers, Erick
 
Glad to hear the project and you are still alive.When ever you get it going again be sure to post up.

Charlie G
 
Well, I realized last month I had let several months go by dealing with family and health issues, effectively killing another year. I want to have this back on the road, if not finished by spring. Since I tore into this last fall I have continued to dink with it once and awhile, mostly sitting back and thinking what I have started already could be improved. Cut my new upper shock clevis back off and made another, lower down, to allow me to route my exhaust up and over, like an old school scrambler. No problem with ground clearance, from the exhaust at least.

So here are some pics of my first side tacked together, the opposite will be a mirror of this. I will put the stainless flanges on the headpipes when I pull it off to weld and finish, so the fender washers holding it in place are not permanent. I had thought to use spigots, but think I think regular flanges will work fine, with a slip coupling at the elbow where it goes back under the carbs and another at the muffler I will construct in the space above the shock. I keep changing the muffler design, but I already have the stainless perforated tubes and stainless wool packing ready.

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I will be getting out in the shop more this winter. I really want to be riding again when it warms up. I have had to talk myself out of buying another hack "just to have something to ride" and divert my resources. I will finish this if it kills me!
 
I'm a little concerned about how close the pipes are to the carbs(maybe a small heat sheild if you can get any further away), but I love the idea and it is looking very custom but natural. Keep it coming :p
 
Glad your back. I wouldn't want to work aroumd those pipes when there hot. It will look great.

Charlie G
 
Are you planning on making heat shields for the pipes yourself or have you found some good candidates from some other bike?

Daniel
 
Zweihammer said:
Hey guys,
I apologize for the lack of updates, scheduling and money issues ground me to a halt for quite awhile. I continue to collect what I need, stainless tubing and bends for my exhaust and I finally picked up a set of RS36's. Now I guess I will get rid of the RS38's and the FCR39's. For all the hassle I have gone through to save a buck, I should have just bought new!
I am making a short work table so I can quit kneeling on the concrete and so I can raise it up for a better view. I am mocking up an exhaust in the area formerly occupied by the airbox/battery.
Cheers, Erick
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Alot of truth in that. :(
 
I am at work and left my notes at home. I wanted to whip up some stainless flanges for my head pipes and don't have the dimension for the stud/bolt centers. Does anyone have that dimension off hand? I know it is narrower than most gsxr flanges.

Does 58mm sound right? Thanks!

Cheers, Erick
 
I am no engineer, but wouldn't routing the pipes along the cooling fins on the cylinder/head cause some heat problems?

For instance, will the cooling fins still shed enough engine heat if there are hot exhaust pipes pushing heat back at them? I guess it is the same situation with header pipes in front of the head/cylinder, but those are more directly in the air path. By putting more pipe near the fins, do you change the equation too much?

They also seem pretty close to where your knees will be when riding.

Just curious.
 
Hey,

I know we all love pictures-

Just thought I would show you what I have been doing this week to my GS, just to show you I am still dinking with it. I ended up cutting the whole back off the frame after spending so much time trimming it down and cleaning off the extra tabs and such. This is my second version of a seat/tail section, and I have cut it apart again as I want it to be even narrower right after the tank, give it more of a waist-ed look. The frame was too wide at that point to go in further so I cut it off.

I am going to cross brace the opening behind the carbs next, and build up a narrow subframe off the back of the center of the original frame to support the seat and tail.
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Cheers, Erick
 
I'm not so concerned about the actual cross-bracing as I am about the actual shock mount.

It's all well and good that you have welded the mount on top, but where it really needs a weld is here, on both sides ideally.

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If you haven't planned on doing that - I highly suggest you reconsider. That mount will snap clean off given enough time unless you do.
 
Thanks for the concern, Mindless, I like to never assume what a person's intentions are. As of now, I am just welding it enough for fit up, no riding, and once I have all the pieces in place, I am going to drop the engine, blow it all apart and weld everything up on while it is on my table. Though I can weld out of position, I really don't want to if I can help it.

BTW, Mindless, I think your bike is the finest of it's kind, I only regret I won't ever see it up close. It has been awesome watching you pull it together, truly unique!

Cheers, Erick
 
Just when I give up....there you are welding again. Great to see you back at it.

Charlie G
 
I haven't read through the entire thread, so I don't know if anyone else caught it, but I love the Mad Max reference!

Nice work on everything else too!
 
Zweihammer said:
Thanks for the concern, Mindless, I like to never assume what a person's intentions are. As of now, I am just welding it enough for fit up, no riding, and once I have all the pieces in place, I am going to drop the engine, blow it all apart and weld everything up on while it is on my table. Though I can weld out of position, I really don't want to if I can help it.

BTW, Mindless, I think your bike is the finest of it's kind, I only regret I won't ever see it up close. It has been awesome watching you pull it together, truly unique!

Cheers, Erick
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OK! But I really suggest you weld that up. You'll be doing yourself a big favour Erick.

Thanks for the nice comment about my bike. I'm afraid you won't be able to see it unless the bike would somehow move to California. Who knows what'll happen though. Maybe I'll emigrate and take it with me? ;)
 
A little farther along tonight-

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I am pondering the slimmest profile sub frame. I am considering a formed pan vs. tubular. The tail section will cover most of it either way.

Cheers, Erick

p.s. Your welcome to bring your bike to California any time, Mindless, I would even make some spare room in my shop!
 
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