like christmas morning

[Crazy]

well i just spent about 3 hours working on it. most of the time was spent getting the front fairing off, and then putting the new one in. also put on the solo cowl and the tank pad. still to come, frame sliders (because ACE hardware didnt have blue loctite in stock) and of course the M4. but so far she's looking better

pics:

replaced the upper

seat cowl - it doesnt quite sit flush on the tail, but i've heard of a way to fix this

old exhaust, soon to be gone...

tank pad

[Cutty72]

so when you killing the mudflap and reflectors??

[Crazy]

today i put on the sliders... took 5 mins, Now im working on the fender, i picked up a metal bracket from home depot which is pretty much perfect and I also borrowed a dremel from a friend. all im waiting on is that i need to make a large rectangular hole in the metal bracket to fit the license plate light... no idea how to do that so I'm going to the hardware store tomorrow to see if they can help.

M4 is (hopefully) going on tomorrow. Cutty did u ever drop the entire exhaust off the bike? only problem i see is the clamp for the rear header is kinda hard to reach. other than that the install seems pretty easy

[JoJoYZF]

Originally Posted by Crazy

today i put on the sliders... took 5 mins, Now im working on the fender, i picked up a metal bracket from home depot which is pretty much perfect and I also borrowed a dremel from a friend. all im waiting on is that i need to make a large rectangular hole in the metal bracket to fit the license plate light... no idea how to do that so I'm going to the hardware store tomorrow to see if they can help.

M4 is (hopefully) going on tomorrow. Cutty did u ever drop the entire exhaust off the bike? only problem i see is the clamp for the rear header is kinda hard to reach. other than that the install seems pretty easy

You should be able to use the dremel to cut a hole in the bracket. Just go grab a metal cutting disk for the dremel.

[Dave]

looking good! gonna do lower fairings?

[Crazy]

hmm.. metal cutting disk, I'll have to see if i have that in the set. the cut off wheel barely made a scratch on it

i might do lower fairing in the future, but not this season.

[Dave]

nice, the newer sv's look really good full fairinged. ive been kicking around the idea of snagging a 1000 as an alt bike

[JoJoYZF]

Originally Posted by Crazy

hmm.. metal cutting disk, I'll have to see if i have that in the set. the cut off wheel barely made a scratch on it

i might do lower fairing in the future, but not this season.

I think the metal cutting disks are only a couple bucks for a two or three pack. I used one to cut the metal bracket when I was putting on my new tail light and it worked great.

[Cutty72]

Originally Posted by Crazy

M4 is (hopefully) going on tomorrow. Cutty did u ever drop the entire exhaust off the bike? only problem i see is the clamp for the rear header is kinda hard to reach. other than that the install seems pretty easy

Never dropped the exhaust. Just used a sawzall to chop it.
Hold the new pipe up, visualize where you need to cut it (remember it needs to slip over part of the header) and then measure to double check it.

Here is a somewhat decent pic of right after I got it on. There is about 2" of the header pipe in the slip on.
Pretty much cut right behind the rear brake light switch.

[Crazy]

yeah I know i could do it that way but i didnt want to scratch up the swingarm or anything. its really not all that hard to drop out the system.

also, I just couldn't resist starting it with the pipe off... holy crap that sounds good