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Beautiful work! Now there had better be some youtube videos of this thing in action!

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"Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whiskey, and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested." ~ Hunter S. Thompson
76' KH500 Cafe
80' SR500 Street Tracker
02' SV650 Race Bike

I know! Right?!!!

That thing has been hanging in my garage for a LONG time. I never dared to mount it on anything as they are worthless over 6000 RPM. I contemplated selling it a bunch of times, but glad I didn't.

Not only do they sound amazing, it should help keep us a bit "restrained" so we don't hurt ourselves more than we probably would if mounting a set of FPP's...
As a bonus, it allows the bike to lean further within the chassis than 3 individual chambers would. The clutch and stator covers will now touch the fiberglass body. If we had some deep powder to play in, we could test its limits.

if go pro footage doesnt happen im forcefeeding you boiled peanuts in May cody..... thats going to be a riot! excellent job!

I still do not own a Go Pro.... Santa didn't get my list this year.

I will take a vid with my cell phone. Quality is actually not that bad.

back to your regularly scheduled program.......

Engine found its new home today!!!!!! I assembled the bottom end about a year ago and its been wrapped up in plastic and in a storage tub taking up valuable shelf space. Nice to get some room back!






One thing that continues to surprise me is how much room there is in a 400 frame. A 500 engine really was meant to be in there....It's a piece of cake installing cylinders/heads while the bottom end is bolted in the bike. Plenty o' room.

And once again a big THANKS to Walms for the 500 engine mounting plate kit. It's TOP NOTCH and well thought out.... The only thing I did "difern't" was to add spacer tubes between the upper front mounts (permanently welded) like an H2 frame. Figured it would add a little frame rigidity up front..


and for fun, I threw the chain in there to see how much clearance I had top and bottom... and whether or not I'm going to need a chain slider on the top of the swingarm like I did on the Denco H1 (KZ650 swinger with 14.5" shocks)...it looks like the answer is "yes".

One question though guys.

WHY do they put soooo much freaking "shipping Grease" on these things?
It seems like every new chain I get has even more Grease than the last one? This next pic was taken after about 10 minutes with a tooth brush and WD-40.. All I managed to accomplish was verifying it had Gold outer plates.. LOL
It was COMPLETELY WHITE when I took it out of the wrapper.. and this stuff is STICKY!


How would you get the rest of that crap off of there so it doesn't fling all over the bike on the first few rides????

Kerosene?

The grease is probably sprayed on, and you have to remember, chains to to some pretty wet and salty parts of the world.
You can probably use a heat gun (sparingly) to get it to thin and wipe off.

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Twist the throttle, tilt the horizon, and have a great time. What triples are all about...........

That stuff ain't gonna "fling" off......!

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"One day, your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching." : anon.

Jesus Cody, you build a clean bike.

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YAMAHAS RULE!!!!!

thanks Dave... They are only this clean when on the bike lift. Its all down hill after that.

That's why one takes the "glamour" shots before gas and oil........

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Twist the throttle, tilt the horizon, and have a great time. What triples are all about...........