So I picked up this track bike from a great guy off the forum. I think I made out like a bandit with all the spares I got with the bike and everything that was already done to the bike. It didn't have too much "bling" on it (quoting the original owner), but where it lacked in bling, it made up for it in power...plus, I think what it had on it was bling...such nice custom aluminum parts (many of which you all know where they came from..lol). Anyway, it'll constantly be a work in progress and I have many plans for it already in the works, but here is what it came with: 2007 CBR1000RR Built Motor (04 frame) Engine work by Dick Suarez of Full Spectrum Racing - Ported and Polished Head - .8mm HRC Spec, HRC Intake Springs, APE Manual Cam Tensioner, Professionally degreed and shimmed Fresh off the dyno - 170 RWHP @ 12,500 RPM & 78 lbs Torque @ 11,000 RPM • HRC JSB ECU • Akropovic Evo Titanium Full System with carbon can • Carbon Fiber Intake • K&N Air Filters • 06-07 1000RR Forks with Ohlins FGK126 25MM Cartridge Kit • Penske 8987 Triple Clicker Shock with HRC Link and custom reservoir bracket on subframe • Dorkman Custom Aluminum (HRC Style) Subframe • Dorkman Aluminum Fairing Stay with aluminum overflow bottle mount and motion pro overflow bottle • Ohlins Steering Damper with Dorkman Custom Linear Adjustable Fork Mount Steering Damper Mount • 2007 Sharkskinz Fiberglass Track Fairings (Upper, Lower, Front Fender and Tank) • Ten Kate Superbike Tail Fairing • Zero Gravity Windscreen • XT Racing Ultralap Lap Timer • Speed - o - Healer • Active Throttle with custom adjustable cables • Arata Adjustable Rearsets • Dorkman Custom Aluminum Clipons • CRG Brake and Clutch Levers • Keyless Gas Cap • 2007 1000rr Radiator Swap • HRC Style Stripped Wiring Harness • Keyless (Toggle Switch) Ignition • 2007 1000rr 320MM Front Brake Rotor Swap So I drove down to South Carolina from Baltimore, Maryland to meet up with the seller and pick everything up and he was an aweome great guy. We continue to talk regularly as he was the original owner and knows the complete history of the bike. He gave me every receipt for the bike and the manila folder holding all the receipts, paperwork, and complete history of the bike is so large the folder can't even fold to the halfway mark of the 8 1/2" paper width! It's huge! Must be something like a ream and a half of paperwork in there... Anyway, so I really lucked out getting a bike I know was taken care of and tracked properly. So put it in my trailer and drove home and started working on a few things. When I got it, it came with a set of sharkskinz fairings that were just primered and not painted. So, since I work at a body shop, I brought the bike in and painted the bike myself, doing a two tone paint scheme with Spies Hecker Paint in blue and white. Before: After: I added the fiberglass hugger and a LifeP04 6 cell (662 gram) Battery to the bike and and just waiting for some vinyl to by cut by my vinyl cutter and I'll get the bike badged up and to the track. Unfortunately, I have so many parts to put on the bike at the moment but no time. Here is a list of parts to install: HRC Spec Cams, Ten Kate Pistons, Ferrero Valves, HRC Exhaust Springs, Marchesini Mags, Braketech Iron Rotors, Brembo GP4RX Calipers, Brembo RCS Masters, Marzocchi Forks, HRC Sprint tank and HRC fuel pump, Ten Kate Radiator and oil cooler, STM Slipper Clutch, STM Clutch Slave, Black Powdercoated Swingarm, 520 Chain and Sprocket Kit It's a shame all these parts are just sitting in boxes, but I'd rather ride the bike all season and start putting on all the parts after the season than lose most of the season due to installing parts in my limited spare time. After I get all the easy parts installed (everything but the internal motor parts), I plan on sending the bike down to Full Spectrum Racing do pull the motor, send the block to get a Nikosil Block Coating and the pistons and gears to JetHot for skirt and gear clad coatings and then have Full Spectrum install all my internal goodies and get it all back together, back on their dyno, program the HRC ECU and get me some new numbers. As of right now, she's at 170 RWHP @ 12,500 RPM & 78 lbs Torque @ 11,000 RPM. Wondering if I can get it up to 200? Prolly not, but I'm crossing my fingers. Probably should just buy a new bmw and do filters and a full exhaust and get 180 easily, for half the cost of this build, but I just love hondas too damn much to turn to the dark side. I'll post up with any updates.
some pix of painting the fairings. minor pitting in the ten kate tail, so I added some top coat in the pitted area and sanded them down really well: adding some "real" primer to the ten kate tail: reinforcing the nose because it had some cracks in the primer. added fiberglass inside and reprimered the front:
got all the fairings base coated a nice blue color: test fitting and getting ready to run some fine line tape to see where I want the white: playing with some fine line tape:
finalized the lines, taped off all the blue I wanted to keep and sprayed them down: taking off the paper and fine line tape. Love pealing this stuff off: a little clear and they are good to go. Well, for a week or so. I decided the tank needed a fine line on each side of the top of the tank and the upper needed to be recleared because there was some contamination issues I was dealing with because I only get to work on my stuff after all the work stuff is done at work (who would have guessed, right?)...so the fairings sat around with just the base coat of blue and white waiting for a clear coat for about a week ...and in a body shop, dust and debris is always floating around and no matter how well you cover stuff up, it always gets nasties on it. I wiped them down really well, but since they were laying around for so long, they pinholed on me when I cleared them. So right now, I have the upper and tank ready to be reshot next week, but they'll be done and back on the bike in no time. The weather is getting nicer out and I'm so ready to hit the track! Dial in the suspension and have some fun!
cleared: semi done with the paint job (tank needs a white line on the top edge and upper needs to be recleared after a wetsand).... sort of a waste of time considering I'm just going to down the bike anyway...but it was fun working on it, so I don't mind.
Got a few new goodies installed.... Brembo CNC Caliper Brembo (genuine) 2008+ 1000RR relocator bracket (finally, my relocator sage ends!) The 08+ bracket is designed a little different so it didn't drop right in without a hitch....I modded the bottom swingarm caliper bracket mount (shaved about 1-2mm off it) because the bracket was hitting when trying to slide it forward... You can see where the black coating was taken off right at the top of the bracket. the brembo is a little heavier (has more mass at the top) now I just need to order a longer rear caliper brake line... Titanium axle nut (ooooOoOOOOOoooohhhhhh!!!) lol: Gilles Chain Adjusters: Translogic quick shifter: Samco Hoses & STM Clutch slave: scanned in some tracing paper into AI and made some decals to put on the HRC tank when I spray it blue (decals will be white). Kind of sad I am going to spray over the OEM paint from HRC, but it has to be done...
here is the tank I'll be spraying: sold my wave rotors to make way for some braketech ductile irons: finally got all my parts together to do the Yoyodyne slipper clutch install. Had to order a clutch holder and decided to go with the Barnett clutch kit. I forgot to take a pic of it installed. I had to use the stock springs because the springs Barnett sent me were not right. They were too small... So I got the cover on after fighting with that d@mn cover for a half hour (lol) and once it was on, I realized I didn't take a pic... But I have the new springs coming my way so once they get here, I'll take the cover back off and take some pics of it installed. got these today... can't wait to use them at the track. braketech irons are on the way. woot woot.
and for giggles, I'll post this one.... and some trackside pix: tearing down for some more mods: media blasting the braketech summer christmas for me: media blasting the braketech rotors:
