| Author | Message | ||
     Aeroe |
Just curious how hard it would be...   | ||
| Glitch |
If you mean the intake, there's a kit somewhere. But, you can't see the gages. Unless of course you mean sitting on a race bike, that I've done at home, just not one of Buell's.  | ||
| Aeroe |
ya, the intake, sorry. I was distracted trying to post pictures. noob... | ||
| Brineusaf |
this was covered before about someone wanting to do this, did you search the KV? Aeroe - check the windstar thread, question for ya in there. I'll try to locate the thread for you in the meantime | ||
| Brineusaf |
I couldn't find it, but someone said they "saw someones bike" who had what appeared to be dryer vent hoses in place for the intake. | ||
| Aeroe |
Sounds like that would look pretty cheap. | ||
| Brineusaf |
It did, DiabloBrian might know more on the matter, just give him some time to find the thread. | ||
| Diablobrian |
who me? We run a similar system on our race bike. You can see the tach, but the idiot lights and speedo are obscured. The Hal's v-force induction completely removes the gages. You do NOT use dryer vent. They cause turbulence inside the tubing and end up flowing very little air, if any. You need to use a proper ram air vent hose. these are smooth on the inside and do not impede flow. They aren't as pretty as the hard c-f piping either, which can also work, but you have to remember that it doesn't matter how pretty the outside is if the inside doesn't have proper flow characteristics. Hal's v-force is pretty, and works too. Until you reach the upper end of the speed spectrum it functions more as a cold air intake than as a ram air system. It is very hard to tune this kind of system. Even dyno tuning does not properly simulate the actual effect of the system as it works at speed. Our system produced enough pressure to tear the corners out of our air box cover (at the bolt holes) at Daytona. In all honesty with a fiberglass cover that has approx 200sq-in of surface it would not take a lot of psi to do that, but it did do it.  That's our system, built by my uncle LJ after a few practice sessions at Daytona. Note the duct tape holding the airbox cover down. The hold-downs have since been reinforced. | ||
| Brineusaf |
Brian - thought it was you who had the airbox fastening problems. Your wealth of knowledge is "priceless". | ||
| Diablobrian |
Just stuff I've picked up along the way.  Other badwebbers have imparted at least as much info to me as I've passed on to others, so it balances out  | ||
| Brineusaf |
Like... don't park behind a female driven minivan at the ATM. I've learned a few things from this board, thanks Blake! | ||
| Aeroe |
Hey Brian, how did uncle LJ make the pieces for the intake (up front) section and for the airbox?? | ||
| Diablobrian |
He made negative molds to form the parts out of fiberglass. He's very good with the 'glass. The airbox cover is a sebimoto fiberglass piece with modifications LJ made. His day job has kept him busy lately so i don't know if he'd be up for making more. | ||
| Danman2540 |
Off topic but where can I get a lower fairing to make an R look like that? | ||
| Aeroe |
No hurry, but if you happen to see him anytime soon. Ask him what he'd charge for another one like that if you don't mind. | ||
| Diablobrian |
You can fet the full fairings from racingmotorcycles.com (sebimoto brand) or halspa.com (sharkskinz brand) I highly recommend the sebimoto for it's quality. You'll have to cut headlight holes for street use, but you'll have to mod whichever one you get to clear your kickstand and exhaust outlet. You also have to fab mounts for the fairing I recommend the kits that both above websites sell. Be sure to have a friend or 2 to help you fit these. Measure carefully. Godfather also sells a cheaper version of the sharkskinz, but the quality is what you'd expect from a cheaper knock-off. Here's my street bike. (sharkskinz)  We use sebimoto on our race bike, and have found it to be higher quality than the sharkskinz we used to use. My brother runs a full fairing on his street xb9r as well, and that is sharkskinz as well. | ||
| Blasterd |
I just want one of those extended front fenders like in the first pic. Ken | ||
| Diablobrian |
Halspa.com, racingmotorcycles.com, So does Trojan, and Hillbilly-Motors, as well as others I can't think of sell them |
