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« on: June 12, 2008, 08:08:53 AM »

Well here is my beast. Been sitting for a little more than a year, clutch didn't work, rear brake locked up, horns didn't work, battery was junk. Tossed in a new battery and some plugs and got it to fire. Adjusted the idle and got it running (on the old gas as well). Added fluid to clutch and bled, got that working. Put on a horn, lubed the rear brake assembly now that's working good. I haven't cleaned the carbs out yet besides some mystery oil in the gas. Runs pretty good. This bike has a lot more power than I expected. Plans are just to save some money on gas and crusie around. Going to be painting it flat black with gloss black stickers and accents along with a little polishing here and there. Shorty mirrors and blinkers. Might make my own intergrated LED turns inside the rear tail lamp. This is my second bike from a 3 or 4 year nap from bikes. My first bike was a 96 Honda VFR 750F. Honda for life!




All I could find is a Mac exhaust?? Anyone know of any slip ons or anything?
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« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2008, 12:22:03 PM »

nice lookin set of wheels there. looks like you got some cleaning to do, so do i. one of my three fav colors too
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« Reply #2 on: June 12, 2008, 02:39:01 PM »

mmm vfr 750 mmmm....
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« Reply #3 on: June 12, 2008, 08:57:48 PM »

Don't remind me! Sportbike handling. Gear driven cams, V4. Sounded like a mini supercharged small block chevy! Loved that bike. D+D slip on with about half the packing taken out and de snorkeld. Loud!

Looked like this except the pipe and I had a half tank bra.

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« Reply #4 on: June 23, 2008, 12:32:01 PM »

Did you drill the holes in the exhaust bafles? Did it effect top end prefformance any? How much sweeter does it sound. Louder = Safer +   smiler. What size of holes are they?

Nice looking hawk man
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« Reply #5 on: June 25, 2008, 12:00:51 PM »

I did drill the holes in the baffles. Not sure what bit size, we just grabbed the biggest one we had lying around. Little smaller than 1/2". It's louder but nothing spectacular. Unknown if it hurt performance at all.
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