YZF shock mounted straight up - it might be a millimeter shorter. Nice not to have to worry about the air-assist stuff, and a new progressive spring is available for under a hundred bucks.
Electrical box is bent up. It'll be welded to the lower subframe:
And it'll swivel backwards with the seat; will put the fusebox in here and it'll give me a place to mount an ignition switch, solenoid and probably a 12V out to run my phone for GPS (even though I spend a lot of my time drawing maps at work, I get lost a lot).
Other little stuff - switched the Virago footpegs out for those from the CB750.
Another note to myself: putting the battery box there means I need to (a) make sure I will have clearance to get a 17mm socket underneath in order to loosen the nut on top, or (b) I'll need to weld that bolt in place and open up the hole at the top of the subframe bracket so that it clears the bolt.
And, uh, I screwed some turnsignals into the giant engine mounts that are definitely the ugliest feature of the Virago. In stock form, there's a big plastic shroud that goes over it; I am pretty sure that I'm going to put the signals here, as they somehow seem to make it less obvious that, well, there's a big metal box underneath them.