Auctiva Emporium: bluemoone1980

In my days of tinkering with all Major brands and styles of Japanese made bikes from the 70's to the late 90's into the 2,000's I had made some really great discoveries.I have long time been a fan and owner of the Famous Honda CB 750 F Super Sport.Also the 900 and 1100.I have owned a few 750's and eventually found a 900 i could afford.I wanted to make a super trick 900 F ss and was going to make it original till one day I had an old 95 FZR 1000 I bought on e bay and it turned out the guy sold me a clean title bike with a junk motor I did not discover till way too late.The bike had this amazingly pretty chromed swing arm on it with a full polished frame.I parted the bike out sold the frame etc and had this swing arm left over.While building the 900 f I wanted I already had the bike down to the frame and engine.I though to myself how sweet an old school bike would be with a newer,wider,sturdier swing arm in it would be as I had taken a swing arm just like this and had put it into a 94 FZR 600 and it made the biggest difference in the bikes ability to handle corners.It had offered the FZR 600 a ton more stability and a much tighter feel.It also allowed the FZR 600 to go from a 160 ear tire to a 200mm rear tire.Well why would I not want the added benefits for my old bike?I did so I took out the swing arm from my stock 900 f frame.I measured the width and it was nearly identical to my disbelief!I could clearly see this could be done with little effort and some common sense! My first challenge doing this upgrade was to figure out how I was going to put the swing arm axle threw it?The FZR 1000 has a much larger diameter swing arm bolt than the old cb 750 and 900's.I could either try to bore the holes in the frame larger or not use it?Ahhh,BUSHINGS were the solution!I measured the difference in the bushings inside the new swing arm and the diameter of the old cb swing arm bolt.I had a local machine shop make my bushings.It cost me 45 bucks and were done in a day!I put the new bushings inside the new swing arm inside the original ones and it was a perfect fit!As far as how to make the mono shock mounting linkage was simple as well.The way sport bikes are set up there is only one angle that will work for the shock.The angle is also simple to find.The swing arm must be able to travel up or down around the shock or it will hit one side or the other of the swing arm.I removed the stock battery box and all wiring from the bike to weld brace and supports for the shock linkage.I also removed the stock center stand,and cut off the mounts for the center stand as well.It needs to be taken off for a suitable place to weld the lower shock brackets.I used a square piece of iron as a cross member in the frame and welded 2 heavy duty steel "L" brackets in the right places to secure the mono shock.Amazingly the sprockets line up perfectly and there was no issue with chain alignment.The sprocket on an FZR 1000 I think has larger teeth count.I believe it has a higher gear ratio than the 900 f so you may want to switch sprockets till you find the right combination.I was never able to fully finish mine.I ended up having to move and had to scrap the project but it was fun and can be done.!