Sunday my good buddy Jim came by to hang out and lend a hand, which was nice. Threw the right side cover on... no problems this time:
Pulled the stator cover... it was nice having the second set of hands pulling the stator out of the cover. Got that bitch thrown on:
Ended up pulling the rear wheel to clean both sprockets and the chain REALLY well... there was so much sand and shit in there that it really needed to be done thoroughly. Annoying, but I feel pretty good about how clean it came out:
I disassembled the right rearset to pull off the brake lever and the master cylinder and heelguard. Attached that stuff to the woodcraft rearset. Pulled off nthe stock brak switch and cut the wires, and spliced in the new woodcraft banjo pressure switch (activated by fluid pressure). Bled the rear brake completely and installed the new banjo.
Meanwhile Jim was installing the left rearset. He then put a gixxer sticker on my bike to be funny, saying it would add horsepower. Notice in this picture that yes, there is a gixxer sticker... but also, there is an incorrectly installed shift linkage and arm. Fuckin' gixxer riders.
Then Jim left and I fixed the linkage:
Then, I started installing the exhaust system. The header tubes were already partially assembled and the collectors as well right out of the box, as you can see in the photo up above of the system... well, I was having a bitch of a time getting the header tubes to fit into the engine and couldn't get things to mount up right. I was worried I was going to damage things such that it wouldn't be returnable and wanted to be sure I didn't have a wrong/messed kit... so I took the bike back to GMD to install it.
Well, it was the right kit, it was just that the pieces that were pre-assembled needed to be taken apart and the springs removed to allow all the pipes to turn/slide around in eachother in order for things to fit. Once that was done, just attached all the springs and everything fit great.
I guess I shouldn't have assumed pulling the thing out of the box that all the pre-assembly was right... Lesson learned. Anyways, the system looks fucking sick and I'm sure it's going to be LAF and add some good power.
Now just have to:
- Install tank sliders
- Remove O2 sensor
- Install Radiator
- Fill gas tank, fill cooling system with engine ice, put oil in the bike, fill and bleed rear brake
- Install PCIII (with downloaded map just to see if bike runs well)
- Mount and fit the race plastics, drill all the holes for fasteners and frame sliders
- Monday the 7th take the bike to the dyno for custom map and tune, and take the race plastics and a few other things up to the painter (and hope they both finish that stuff in time for track days the 15th and 16th)
- Throw the decals on there
- Install a couple other things (replacement pazzo lever, stompgrip, tank pad, etc) when they show up
Shit's gonna be so sick
