ShredderII build who wants to see it ?

[lug-nuts]

Got the side panels fit up. Also I picked up some monroe max air shocks, they worked pretty good and the adjustability made them really nice. I could take a small 12 volt compressor with me and adjust the ride as I added or removed passengers. My only complaint was they slowly lost air over a couple weeks.

 

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Next up was the wiring. Not too bad, but I learned a cool fact about "modern" street bikes (rice rockets) The manufacturers all of them have a timing retard function in the first 3 to 4 gears. Thats for newbies so they dont get all of the power in the lower gears and hurt themselves. I can bypass that function with a little inexpensive resistor, it spoofs the computer to think its in 5th gear. This made a big difference in performance. I highly reccomend doing this mod. I added a on/off switch in case it work out like I wanted, but looking back now I would absolutely leave the switch out.

 

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I was on to the fuel tank next, I made one and it wasnt good. It had a small leak, and I knew I couldnt have that so I scrapped that and went a new rout. I thought about it and I really wanted a spun aluminum tank, but theyre expensive now. 30 years ago they were cheap, not anymore. I came up with an idea, and I think its pretty sweet. Harborfreight sells a 5 gal steel air tank. I picked one up and fabbed a sump for the OEM pump and bought a fuel bung with cap. Removed all the air fittings and started cutting. All said and done the tank was 20 bucks the filler neck and cap was about the same. Now I have a tank that doesnt leak and look pretty nice too.

The first pic is the original tank I made (garbage)

 

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had to make some tank straps and other doodads to make it all work.

 

[Denny]

Looks like the wiring is the worst of it! We just had a thread on horrible wiring where we all made fun of ourselves!

 

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The wiring wasnt too terrible, it just looks really bad.

 

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heres the tank all done painted up and installed.

 

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Back to the original build. I had to make shift linkage for the gear selector. Just a little tubing and small heim joint. A couple small pieces of angle and a drill bit. I bent the tube to go around all the parts in the way. I added a rubber lined screw down clamp about halfway so the linkage wouldnt lift up while actuating it. I needed it to stay put, and only move forward or backwards.

 

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The next step was paint, everything was fit up and welded out. All parts worked as they should so it was time.

 

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Putting it all back together.

 

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more paint pics

 

[GreyW00lf]

I would say that it turned out pretty sweet. Quick question how many bends did you have to put into the various Tubes?

 

[lug-nuts]

I would say that it turned out pretty sweet. Quick question how many bends did you have to put into the various Tubes?

Not very many, about 8 bends

 

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But wait, theres more !

 

[GreyW00lf]

More you say? like what?

 

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I replaced the front "monroe max air shocks" with coil overs from FOA. Spent about 600 bucks for these 2 shocks. Thats why the rear ones have to wait.

 

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After I installed these bad boys, the frame stared to bend in between the shock towers. I fabbed a piece of 1-1/2" tube to go between the shock mounts. This little "mod" has completely fixed the bending on the frame up front.

 

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Picked up some budget sand paddle tires and wheels on the interwebs. Shipped, and mounted for 240.00

 

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I went to local big box home improvement store and picked up 40' of 3/4" EMT conduit, and 8-1" rubber insulated clamps.

I am using the existing screw's to attach the rack to the roof. The cost so far is 28.00

I then removed 8 screw's and placed the clamps in the spots and screwed them in.

Next I borrowed my bro in-law's conduit bender and bent a 90 so I could then place it on top and measure for the next bend.

After determining where my next bend was I bent it, so now I have half of the "hoop" bent. Did the same to the other side and then overlayed both of them to get the correct width marked and cut.

After they were cut I welded the two halves together and now have a full hoop.

The hoops used about 9' of conduit each amazing how much is needed when you start bending it up.

 

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Im currently making a few more mods. Replacing the rear "monroe max air" rear shocks. I picked up a set of SuperATV Phantom Pro Sport Remote Reservoir Rear Shocks for a rzr 800. Replacing the seats with lighter, single piece, and making a quick release seat mount, new 5 point seat belts. Fixing the "dead tubes" on the rear main hoop extending them all the way to the frame base. For some reason the plans dont have those tubes extend all the way to frame.