Hey guys just thought I'd share some pics of the progress and get any feedback. Here it is about 6 months after I bought it stock except for the drag bars I don't think those are stock. right after this pic was taken I put on new mirrors,grips and kuryaken levers for a honda shadow. I had to get a shadow clutch perch and master resevior to fit the levers.
I've had it about four riding seasons now and started tearing it down around the first of the year to rebuild it from the ground up. I got the beast performance package from lancer with a 97mm wossener piston, bored cylinder with silicon carbide treatment, a stage 2 racing cam from Webcam racing, a 36mm Mikuni carb with ufo,new jet set, ported head and bead blasted. (Thanks Lancer great job on everything)
Also got the Verslavy cam chain tensioner and a set of Barnett clutch springs and EBC high performance clutch plates. That's about all for the engine. I had thought about knife edging the wheels(crankshaft).Faster rpms that drop just as fast
but after a bit of researching I figured that $800 would be better spent elsewhere I could have polished the crank and flywheel though that would have been nice. That's about all that can be done for performance mods on the engine short of a supercharger like rynocycles or running NOS but you can squeeze more horsepower out in other places. Here's the engine after rebuilding it a couple weeks ago
While Lancer got the beast kit together I had the frame hard tail at Cycle One Manufacturing to give me 3 more inches of leg room
We got the engine put in the frame last weekend with the rear tire to get the sprockets and chain lined up and move on with the rest of mock up.
But I ordered the wrong size chain I got a 520 instead of a 530 and the links won't fit into the sprocket teeth so I just tossed the seat and fender on there to get an idea of what it's gonna look like and called it a night.
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