Race Bike Build

[Nevets]

Next was the slipper clutch. I was really excited for this.

A slipper clutch is far from necessary, even for racing, but my first bike (which I bought race ready from another racer) had one, and I can't imagine racing without it. Not having to worry about rev matching as you're coming in hot to turn 1 at the end of the front straight is absolutely worth the price tag on the slipper. Also, the confidence you gain when you down shift and dump the clutch the bike just purrs as the slipper controls the back torque just right and the bike turns on rails. As opposed to riding a bronco when you screw up the rev match and the rear starts hopping around underneath you.

I drained the oil, and got the clutch cover off.

I forgot to take another picture of the new clutch installed. I feel foolish. It was a little odd, all the spring bolts and retainers stood about 7mm proud of the pressure plate after torquing the bolts to the 5.8 ft-lbf as per the Yoyodyne instructs and Yamaha service manual. This had me a little freaked out, so I sent Mossrider a panicked private message, and he assured me this was normal. So I continued to reassemble everything.

I took the opportunity to install my case savers as I was reassembling the clutch cover. I bought the Yoshimura case saver kit, and the clutch side guard covers one of my safety wire points, so the bike got its very first bit of safety wire installed.

From there it was just a few more bolts, and a quick google search for instructions on the Yoshimura case savers to figure out which bolts and spacers belonged where. Weird that the kit doesn't come with instructions.

I poured the oil back in. I foolishly did an oil change in the fall at the end of my riding season, so it was brand new oil that I drained from the engine.

And that's about all I got done this weekend.
Now I wait for the damper rod tool to arrive so I can keep going on the forks.

 

I love your guys' feedback. And it's cool to hear about what you guys have done different.

[mossrider]

Just now, Nevets said:

Next was the slipper clutch. I was really excited for this.

I drained the oil, and got the clutch cover off.

I took the opportunity to install my case savers as I was reassembling the clutch cover. I bought the Yoshimura case saver kit, and the clutch side guard covers one of my safety wire points, so the bike got its very first bit of safety wire installed.

I poured the oil back in. I foolishly did an oil change in the fall at the end of my riding season, so it was brand new oil that I drained from the engine.

I love your guys' feedback. And it's cool to hear about what you guys have done different.

Next time you pull the clutch cover just tip the bike against your workbench (or use the kickstand if attached) and you won't have to drain the oil.

A couple more fasteners you may want to wire/drill depending on your rules package;

Exhaust can to head pipe junction, exhaust hanger bracket to frame juncture, backside of brake lever fulcrum and fasteners depending on manufacturer, silicone on the stator cover center cap and the cam chain safety plug on the right side of the head.

Looking good! I wanna do another now too.

PS, here's a look at mine, same 7mm you mentioned, meh

[Nevets]

15 minutes ago, mossrider said:

Next time you pull the clutch cover just tip the bike against your workbench (or use the kickstand if attached) and you won't have to drain the oil.

A couple more fasteners you may want to wire/drill depending on your rules package;

Exhaust can to head pipe junction, exhaust hanger bracket to frame juncture, backside of brake lever fulcrum and fasteners depending on manufacturer, silicone on the stator cover center cap and the cam chain safety plug on the right side of the head.

Looking good! I wanna do another now too.

Yeah, I figured I could probably put it on the side stand and save draining the oil, but my "lift" doesn't really accommodate the side stand, and it was more work to get it down off the lift.

I've never thought to safety wire any of the exhaust hardware, it's not required for my club. The brake lever bolts will all get silicone, but no safety wire.

I have a manual cam chain tensioner on the way, so that will have to wait. But that's a good idea, I'll have to safety wire that plug.

[sorkyah]

34 minutes ago, mossrider said:

Next time you pull the clutch cover just tip the bike against your workbench (or use the kickstand if attached) and you won't have to drain the oil. ">

A couple more fasteners you may want to wire/drill depending on your rules package;

Exhaust can to head pipe junction, exhaust hanger bracket to frame juncture, backside of brake lever fulcrum and fasteners depending on manufacturer, silicone on the stator cover center cap and the cam chain safety plug on the right side of the head.

Looking good! I wanna do another now too.

Come to PHX and do mine too

 

[1tondriver]

1 hour ago, Nevets said:

I love your guys' feedback. And it's cool to hear about what you guys have done different.

 

 

 

Looks good! I am going to be doing the same thing after Christmas but putting in a Suter instead. I too changed the oil before putting it down for the winter like an idiot. I may try laying on side but will be hard on the lift. 
Why Yoyodyne instead of another? I think I know the answer but just curious. Nice build you have going!

[mossrider]

By the way, did you get that swapped in w/o piching your fingers? You are better than I, lol.

When she's done and if you're ever in the neighborhood I'll buy you a sprint race at BIR. Be fun, we have at least a dozen of these fool things running around any given weekend trying to beat up on a dozen or so Suzuki's and a bunch of Kramers and whatnot thrown in.  

[1tondriver]

Just now, mossrider said:

By the way, did you get that swapped in w/o piching your fingers? You are better than I, lol.

When she's done and if you're ever in the neighborhood I'll buy you a sprint race at BIR. Be fun, we have at least a dozen of these fool things running around any given weekend trying to beat up on a dozen or so Suzuki's and a bunch of Kramers and whatnot thrown in.  

I have already bought my bandaids from your recommendation. Lol

[mossrider]

Just now, 1tondriver said:

Looks good! I am going to be doing the same thing after Christmas but putting in a Suter instead. I too changed the oil before putting it down for the winter like an idiot. I may try laying on side but will be hard on the lift. 
Why Yoyodyne instead of another? I think I know the answer but just curious. Nice build you have going!

You only have to lean it a few degrees, enough to let oil sump to the left.

[Nevets]

23 minutes ago, 1tondriver said:

Why Yoyodyne instead of another? I think I know the answer but just curious. Nice build you have going!

I bought a Yoyodyne for my wife's R3, and it worked great.

Also, Yoyodyne worked with Andy Palmer to develop the slipper for the FZ-07 to make sure that it provided good engine breaking and didn't just free wheel, without being too aggressive. This sounded really good to me, so made for an easy decision.

[Nevets]

24 minutes ago, mossrider said:

By the way, did you get that swapped in w/o piching your fingers? You are better than I, lol.

When she's done and if you're ever in the neighborhood I'll buy you a sprint race at BIR. Be fun, we have at least a dozen of these fool things running around any given weekend trying to beat up on a dozen or so Suzuki's and a bunch of Kramers and whatnot thrown in.  

I didn't have any issues with pinched fingers at all. Might be that all the safety propaganda at work about staying out of the line of fire is actually good for something. Or maybe Moss just likes to put his fingers where they don't belong  

I definitely want to come down for a race round once I get this thing built. If for no other reason than to meet the guy who convinced me to build this damn thing in the first place.

It's a really long drive from Edmonton though, so probably not in 2020, hopefully in 2021.

[mossrider]

2 minutes ago, Nevets said:

If for no other reason than to meet the guy who convinced me to build this damn thing in the first place.

It's a really long drive from Edmonton though, so probably not in 2020, hopefully in 2021.

I get blamed for a lot of stuff, most of it not so good. You never know where these fingers have been.

And if you can get to Winnipeg, I can get you the rest of the way, we have a crew that comes down from Peg every month.

[avg_fz07]

15 hours ago, Nevets said:

Let me know when you come up to Edmonton for the track day.
I'm on the EMRA executive, so I'm there every single track day either riding, or actually putting on the event. I'd love to talk FZ07s, and anything motorcycle in general.

Yeah will do! Haven't tracked before but looking to get out a few times next season! 

[pgeldz]

Lookin' good!

[fzar]

On 12/14/2019 at 6:34 PM, Nevets said:

Well I'm about ready to pull my hair out.

I feel your pain. I spent the day trying my best to get that ghastly MF damper rod bolt out, yeah you guessed it, no joy. i'll buy an impact wrench first thing in the morning to try an avoid waiting on the TOOL to arrive as I have 60 F Sunday- Wednesday and I need to ride. I gave the bolt a good ould whack with a drift, used ratchet straps to compress the stanchion, no luck. Heated it substantially and tried again, nothing. It's just spinning. What a bollox, all to replace a shot fork seals and while I'm at it, bushings and fresh fork oil. I may as well get pvc pipe and mess with them as spacers too. Don't ya just love doing things for the first time? I do, seriously.

Anyway, today the damper rod bolt won Round 1. Tomorrow it might win Round 2??? In the end I'm the one really winning as it's all just another lesson learned.

 

P.S. I'm ordering drop in cartridges and this is something I wanted done prior to dealing with that extravaganza. 

[Nevets]

5 hours ago, fzar said:

Anyway, today the damper rod bolt won Round 1. Tomorrow it might win Round 2??? 

You're more persistent than I am. I just ordered the tool. It should arrive on Monday.

[fzar]

12 hours ago, Nevets said:

You're more persistent than I am. I just ordered the tool. It should arrive on Monday.

 

I won round 2.

[Evill_Ed]

3 hours ago, fzar said:

 

I won round 2.

Woooo Hoooo

[cornerslider]

5 hours ago, fzar said:

 

I won round 2.

Nice broom handle...  - I've only had to resort to that method once, but it DOES work!!!!! Glad to see you won-

 

[fzar]

23 minutes ago, cornerslider said:

Nice broom handle...  - I've only had to resort to that method once, but it DOES work!!!!! Glad to see you won-

I found it in the garage, I was having no luck with the plastic crap as it was spinning on the broom handle. I decided I liked the idea of the tapered threaded end, just in case I stripped the wood.  I cut it in half to have a backup for the other fork, also it was too long at 4 FT. to get my torso weight over it. (No vice,  fork upside down on a  padded mat) 

 It helped ,but the deal breaker was the impact driver I bought at Harbor freight on sale. It took way longer to charge the battery than it did to get the damper rod bolt out. I won round 3 also on the second fork. Piece a piss.

I have more info on the lower bushings, but I won't post them here as I feel I've hijacked the thread. (Sorry @Nevets)

 I'll post the info and pics over at a suspension upgrades by @pattonme  or wherever the bushing debacle occured.  Man was it satisfying to see the bolt backing out. 

For the life of me I couldn't find my seal driver, so I called it a day and snapped a beer.

[fzar]

Ohlins Nix-22 cartridges ordered today. I knew I was going to buy them anyway so I just did it. 

[Evill_Ed]

2 hours ago, fzar said:

Ohlins Nix-22 cartridges ordered today. I knew I was going to buy them anyway so I just did it. 

You’re gonna love ‘em
 

 

[1tondriver]

6 hours ago, fzar said:

Ohlins Nix-22 cartridges ordered today. I knew I was going to buy them anyway so I just did it. 

You will love them. Installed mine late fall and only got 1 ride with them before it snowed but a huge improvement! I had the DDC’s and they helped some but not like the cartridges. Putting a Robem Linear Link in next week and that will do it for the suspension. Is it Spring yet?

[Nevets]

So I had some time after all the Christmas cheer today to get back in the garage and get some work done.

I was really excited because a boat load of parts arrived just before Christmas, and I was eager to start putting them on the bike.
One that I was really excited about was the damper rod holding tool from Motion Pro:

Sadly this thing is a piece of junk, and failed miserably at holding the damper rod. You can see in this photo where it was making contact with the round edge, and the damper rod just spun and marred the tool. What a POS! I'm pissed. I ended up ordering the official tool from K&L Supply out of the Yamaha service manual. Hopefully it gets here quickly.

 

Feeling defeated, I decided to spend some time cleaning the bike. Which led into a few other things. It ended up being a pretty productive day after all.

I wanted to get the engine closed up again, so I installed the HordPower Airbox.

And since I was closing up the engine, figured I might as well finish it off and get the new exhaust installed as well. I ordered the Graves Full System from 2WDW.

And got him to flash my ECU at the same time.

In the above photo I'm adding the extra wires for the bike side harness. Which I didn't really need, except I also purchased this from 2WDW:

 

All in all, I got some decent work done. I'm really anxious to get the forks down though. So that I can get the controls mounted where I want them, and then start fitting the fairings.

Also visible in these photos is the Ohlins STX46 shock. It's not top of the line, but it's a big upgrade over the stock shock, and it's good enough for my skill level. Hopefully I'll get better, and in a few years I'll spend the money for something nicer, but until that happens, I'm quite happy with this.

Edited January 3, 2020 by Nevets

[Nevets]

In between all the other items I posted above, I also installed the Gilles Tooling Chain Adjusters / Rear Spools that I purchased from Bellisimoto.

As well as a Vortex fuel cap.

 

It was shortly after taking this photo that I realized that the ECU and regulator are in my way when fitting the tank cover.
I know that Andy Palmer includes relocation brackets for both of these with his mounting kit for the fairings. I ended up buying the SharkSkinz kit from iOneMoto, and they do not sell comparable relocation brackets. So I'm curious what other people have done.

[Werbenjagermanjensen]

5 hours ago, Nevets said:

In between all the other items I posted above, I also installed the Gilles Tooling Chain Adjusters / Rear Spools that I purchased from Bellisimoto.

As well as a Vortex fuel cap.

 

It was shortly after taking this photo that I realized that the ECU and regulator are in my way when fitting the tank cover.
I know that Andy Palmer includes relocation brackets for both of these with his mounting kit for the fairings. I ended up buying the SharkSkinz kit from iOneMoto, and they do not sell comparable relocation brackets. So I'm curious what other people have done.

The V3 was the main aftermarket gas cap I'd wanted to install, but the Vortex website maintained that they weren't able to fit the MT-07. Is that incorrect? How'd you manage?