That weight difference is interesting as a VFR swingarm is pretty heavy and the wheel is heavy compared to most single shock two sided set ups. Just for interest I recently checked a few dual shock swingarms for a Suzuki project. I weighed the stock short GT750 arm, a slightly longer GT550 arm, an even longer GS750 arm and much larger diameter and longer GS1100 arm and the heaviest was stock and the lightest was the longest largest one. So looks can be deceptive, so you may be right with those weights.
Human nature is what it is, so let's leave that alone. We all have our moments.
As you can tell, even from the less forgiving posts, people generally do not want you to hurt yourself. They also generally don't want to see the performance deteriorate through increased weight, less ground clearance, inappropriate geometry and because we aren't there with you, we develop different ways to transmit that message of concern.
Keep working on it and have your welder do the stress analysis before you go much further and that way the two of you can play with position of tubes etc in the software. The guy that does all my critical welding makes the most perfect welds I have ever seen but that's all he does. If yours can do that sort of analysis, you have a great asset there.
Keep having fun and learning.
Human nature is what it is, so let's leave that alone. We all have our moments.
As you can tell, even from the less forgiving posts, people generally do not want you to hurt yourself. They also generally don't want to see the performance deteriorate through increased weight, less ground clearance, inappropriate geometry and because we aren't there with you, we develop different ways to transmit that message of concern.
Keep working on it and have your welder do the stress analysis before you go much further and that way the two of you can play with position of tubes etc in the software. The guy that does all my critical welding makes the most perfect welds I have ever seen but that's all he does. If yours can do that sort of analysis, you have a great asset there.
Keep having fun and learning.