84 VT500 "bobber" Project

[roscoenr]

Originally Posted by JP50515

One thing I might suggest, wrapping the.pipes in grey or black. Or purchasing my Mac system as it's for sale

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I have some red exhaust wrap I am going to use as soon as I get this last issue pegged down. I already have the exhaust for it. sorry about your acedent and your friend. my prayers for you all.

Originally Posted by jimnfor

looks good man. the red breaks up the black. nice

Thank you

[7s1amma7]

as for the bogging... Does it only do it in motion and get worse the faster you go? Or does it do it in neutral revving the bike also?

Mine did that when I ran pods but only in 4th gear and up,played with jetting forever and went back to the stock box. I figured at speed it was ramming too much air in the pods. She would do fine from 0-40 over 40 I had to give it full juice to keep it from cutting out. None of the combinations I ran did anything to help it.

[roscoenr]

that is what is going on, the faster I go one, and that was my next guess. did that fix the problem for you?

[roscoenr]

Originally Posted by Brandan86

How did you mount the seat? I have a sportster solo seat, and will want to put it on my 500 if and when I get to building it.

Not ignoring you're post, I'm going to be taking off the seat and tank soon when I do in will take pictures to show you

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[Brandan86]

Cool I appreciate that.

[JP50515]

Thanks man. Looks like the local vt500 crowd on this thread lol. Yeah i'm super bummed about mine, i found a point on the frame that buckled so its game over for her. But in better news I bought a new bike yesterday. 1988 Yamaha Radian YX600 that was in a museum its whole life. It has 6000 on the clock and it looks it. Probably flip er for a new shadow but anyway your project came together SUPER fast man. You must have planned this all out long before hand. Mine was just kind of a figure it out as I go kind of project lol. I really like what you did with the red and that rear fender. If I were you i'd pick up a can of Plasti Dip and do the rims in black, I think that'd look awesome. But hey your bike not mine ha. Anyway congrats on being nearly complete. Feels good to finish a project

[roscoenr]

Originally Posted by JP50515

Thanks man. Looks like the local vt500 crowd on this thread lol. Yeah i'm super bummed about mine, i found a point on the frame that buckled so its game over for her. But in better news I bought a new bike yesterday. 1988 Yamaha Radian YX600 that was in a museum its whole life. It has 6000 on the clock and it looks it. Probably flip er for a new shadow but anyway your project came together SUPER fast man. You must have planned this all out long before hand. Mine was just kind of a figure it out as I go kind of project lol. I really like what you did with the red and that rear fender. If I were you i'd pick up a can of Plasti Dip and do the rims in black, I think that'd look awesome. But hey your bike not mine ha. Anyway congrats on being nearly complete. Feels good to finish a project

Good luck witch ever way you go. Most if mine was planed out in my head before hand but a lot was figure out as I went. On the runs I'm going to use the red metal cast paint I used for my gas cap and head light ring on the silver parts of the time and piece the black alone. Also going to do the front rotor in the red.

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[roscoenr]

Originally Posted by 7s1amma7

as for the bogging... Does it only do it in motion and get worse the faster you go? Or does it do it in neutral revving the bike also?

Mine did that when I ran pods but only in 4th gear and up,played with jetting forever and went back to the stock box. I figured at speed it was ramming too much air in the pods. She would do fine from 0-40 over 40 I had to give it full juice to keep it from cutting out. None of the combinations I ran did anything to help it.

I'm pretty sure this is the problem. I took two small cups, cut the bottom off the two cups and slid them over the pod filters. Took a test drive and the only time it bogged down was a pretty high rate of speed at a low rpm, and that is easy enough to get around.

[roscoenr]

Originally Posted by Brandan86

Cool I appreciate that.

sorry for the delay

for the seat I took a 1"x1/4" piece of aluminum and bent it in a U shape to fit in the seat hinge. I drilled a hole in the bottom of the U shape to put a bolt through to hold it and the gas tank down. Then I drilled a hole on ether side of the U to put the bolt through the hinge and the U bracket. Next I bought some Bolt On Spring Seat Mounts,like these. I found the placement for the mounts on the down bars and drilled the holes. Paced the mounts on and tightened down. then I place the seat. Real simple, but if I were to do it again I would weld a cross bar a bit farther back and put the mounts on that.

U bracket





Mounts



I would put the cross bar about where the red line is

[CB750K_id]

Well i'm officially envious. Damn that looks good man!

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