Streetfighter89
No regrets, livin' for the day
Thursday I finally fired her up for the first time ever, after nearly 2 years of building.
I made some blasts down the short road in the first two gears... It felt great! I was really afraid that it wouldn't fire at all or the performance would be too poor for me and that all the work was for nothing, but so far I'm very very glad that I made this build. It also sounds great, I think the PO made some modification to the mufflers (quite a lot ugly weldings on the insides).
The stock brake pump was replaced by one of a Suzuki GS 500, the angel of the stock one wasn't safe to ride, the GS 500 bp has just the right angel for clipons so the reservoir is horizontally, the stock one always got air into the system at some angels. The GS500 brakesetup is the way to got, my MBX had one too, and you can adjust the lever in 4 positions. I also changed the clutch side to GS 500 parts too.
The eletric issues are also done, every wire is conncted to its partner, lights are all working, tacho and speedo also (both electric), they are also mounted proberly now. Now I just have to squeeze all those wires into the tiny headlight bowl, quite a job as i figured out. The bowl is now lowered and the tacho/speedo-combo also.
The igintion is off, I just tuned it by rule of thumb, so when she was warm she refused to start, but I'll tackel that next week. Also the left carb is leaking at the bottom, I think it is the o-ring of the drain plug.
I think its now 95% MOT-worthy, only some little issues are still to be solved. For the MOT i will run with the original seat and the stock rearfender. When i pass it I'll start finishing up the brown seat, the selfmade rearsets and the tire hugger.
I made some blasts down the short road in the first two gears... It felt great! I was really afraid that it wouldn't fire at all or the performance would be too poor for me and that all the work was for nothing, but so far I'm very very glad that I made this build. It also sounds great, I think the PO made some modification to the mufflers (quite a lot ugly weldings on the insides).
The stock brake pump was replaced by one of a Suzuki GS 500, the angel of the stock one wasn't safe to ride, the GS 500 bp has just the right angel for clipons so the reservoir is horizontally, the stock one always got air into the system at some angels. The GS500 brakesetup is the way to got, my MBX had one too, and you can adjust the lever in 4 positions. I also changed the clutch side to GS 500 parts too.
The eletric issues are also done, every wire is conncted to its partner, lights are all working, tacho and speedo also (both electric), they are also mounted proberly now. Now I just have to squeeze all those wires into the tiny headlight bowl, quite a job as i figured out. The bowl is now lowered and the tacho/speedo-combo also.
The igintion is off, I just tuned it by rule of thumb, so when she was warm she refused to start, but I'll tackel that next week. Also the left carb is leaking at the bottom, I think it is the o-ring of the drain plug.
I think its now 95% MOT-worthy, only some little issues are still to be solved. For the MOT i will run with the original seat and the stock rearfender. When i pass it I'll start finishing up the brown seat, the selfmade rearsets and the tire hugger.