WANTED: FZS600 project

[ChristoT]

I have a viable plan, it just happens to be a little crazy! 

It's all planned out meticulously. I even have a parts list of stuff I need!

Bidding on a little trailer on ebay to lug stuff about. A neat little box job. 

[noggythenog]

I have a viable plan

Bidding on a little trailer

Uh oh




What the actual Foc!!!!






 

[ChristoT]

Well, Paul has all my parts!! 

No, this is a box trailer to tow the bikes IN. That being said, you've given me an idea now!! 

[bozboz]

Christo ive got a frankenstein boxeye fairing that you could melt together plus mirrors and stay/headlight also speedo dials. All yours if you pick up a project with no plastics/heavy front end damage! Free of course mate just come on down and ill put the kettle on!!

[ChristoT]

Christo ive got a frankenstein boxeye fairing that you could melt together plus mirrors and stay/headlight also speedo dials. All yours if you pick up a project with no plastics/heavy front end damage! Free of course mate just come on down and ill put the kettle on!!

Wow, thanks Boz!  I plan to rake the screen back a few degrees anyway, so a frankenstein fairing would suit me better anyway! 

I'm getting really excited about this project now. It's going to be quite VFR-ish in places (especially the rear end), so it should look interesting!

Does anyone know of the best way of retro-fitting ABS to a bike?

[mickvp]

you would need to makeup a timing ring that could incorporate into the current brake disks/mmounting. you would also need a sensor to be mounted in exactly the right position, and exactly the correct distance from the timing ring to sense the pulses. then you would need to be able to plumb in a modulator inline.

theres more besides all that. sufficed to say, it would be a bit of a nightmare I think.

[ChristoT]

you would need to makeup a timing ring that could incorporate into the current brake disks/mmounting. you would also need a sensor to be mounted in exactly the right position, and exactly the correct distance from the timing ring to sense the pulses. then you would need to be able to plumb in a modulator inline.

theres more besides all that. sufficed to say, it would be a bit of a nightmare I think.

Well, I don't know. As I plan a USD fork conversion anyway, if I were to fit a newer R6 front end, that might have the ABS stuff prefitted, if that makes sense? As I'm not sure I understand how the ABS works on the bike (if it has a "brain", where various bits go, etc), I'm just hypothesising.

I came across this, but not 100% sure about it...
http://www.tcbbrakesystems.com/index.html

And at $80 a calliper (so 3 needed for a bike like ours), that's an expensive gamble to take.

[tex]

 
 seen this on ebay, http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/231148141291?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649#ht_276wt_1133
 
   

[JoeRock]

Christo ive got a frankenstein boxeye fairing that you could melt together plus mirrors and stay/headlight also speedo dials. All yours if you pick up a project with no plastics/heavy front end damage! Free of course mate just come on down and ill put the kettle on!!

Wow, thanks Boz!  I plan to rake the screen back a few degrees anyway, so a frankenstein fairing would suit me better anyway! 

I'm getting really excited about this project now. It's going to be quite VFR-ish in places (especially the rear end), so it should look interesting!

Does anyone know of the best way of retro-fitting ABS to a bike?

With extreme difficulty. I've only seen it done once with an OE system from a ZZR1400 on a ZX12R that a very clever engineer managed to make work, and luckily a lot of the parts fitted.
Of cours, there's always the option of a bazzazz system which I think can have ABS as an option, but they're foccing expensive, and I think are intended for FI bikes so no idea if it would work on a carbed one.

Not being funny Christo, but as a student why are you plowing so much money into such an old bike? If you really want a 600 with underseat exhausts and ABS, buy an FZ6?

[ChristoT]

Not being funny Christo, but as a student why are you plowing so much money into such an old bike? If you really want a 600 with underseat exhausts and ABS, buy an FZ6?

Exactly what I was thinking last night

Three reasons:
1) I love carb'd engines, and the FZS engine is a beaut (the reviews are not kind about the FZ-6)
2) I can afford to build a bike in installments, but not one big initial outlay
3) I get to be creative! 

[bozboz]

http://bit.ly/1bn9iiF

[bigbluebear]

How much are you planning to spend to put this lot together

[ChristoT]

How much are you planning to spend to put this lot together

No idea, as it's a rolling cost! I have the swingarm (£50), looking at an engine and frmae (about £200 - £300 combined), but still need a front end, tank and brakes. I might be lucky, and get a complete bike project, and mod when time and funds allow!

The overall project (over time) should set me back around £1000 when all is said and done (I hope!!)

[bigbluebear]

FFS Christo you can buy one in pretty decent condition for that......plus all the time and effort running around looking for second hand parts, and hoping they working and the correct parts, then the time to assemble........how you register this CAT C or CAT D....or maybe it should be on a Q plate being a kit bike    ......any way I said I would help with a small donation so PM me your address and I'll post some dosh........not sure how much you'll get for 22p though

[Deefer666]

It will only have to go on a q plate if the age of the donor vehicle cannot be established and if it is sufficiently modified to require an SVA, changing suspension and bodywork is not that modified. SVAs normally apply to heavily modified frames or complete one-offs (such as hardtail chops etc)