WIP: Yamaha R1 Tuner

[joelwideqvist]

Originally Posted by spark1505

hello!
i wonder which brands of exhaust system you use ?
will you leave original yamaha or....?

Hi. This will be a real mix actually. I'll use the 4-1 part going from cylinder heads to EXUP from the Yamaha R1 kit. Next part of the pipes is scratch built (I'm actually trying to fit the two parts together right know...) and at the end are the mufflers from the Ducati 916 kit.
Hope that answers your question.
/Joel

[spark1505]

Originally Posted by joelwideqvist

Hi. This will be a real mix actually. I'll use the 4-1 part going from cylinder heads to EXUP from the Yamaha R1 kit. Next part of the pipes is scratch built (I'm actually trying to fit the two parts together right know...) and at the end are the mufflers from the Ducati 916 kit.
Hope that answers your question.
/Joel

maybe it's silly question, but have you ever heard for akrapovic?

[joelwideqvist]

Aha, you mean the 1/1 brand I'm trying to recreat? If that is so I've actually had my eyes on the Akrapovic systems. I guess this will in the end be decided upon wich decal that suits the muffler best. As there is some brackets to be added I think the Akrapovich decal will be to long and reach across the brackets. Today I'm leaning towards IXIL or Leo Vince.
/Joel

[spark1505]

Originally Posted by joelwideqvist

Aha, you mean the 1/1 brand I'm trying to recreat? If that is so I've actually had my eyes on the Akrapovic systems. I guess this will in the end be decided upon wich decal that suits the muffler best. As there is some brackets to be added I think the Akrapovich decal will be to long and reach across the brackets. Today I'm leaning towards IXIL or Leo Vince.
/Joel

i've seen you're from sweden, thats why i asked if you ever heard...
i've tried maaany types and at the end everything ends up on akrapovic! i liked wings on hayabusa, but after some thousand km is toooo loud.
if you wont few more hp and good sound akrapovic is good choice.

anyway, it's nice what you're doing, i wish you good luck and looking forward to new pics!

[joelwideqvist]

As mentioned above I'm currently working on the exhaust system. This is a task I've pushed in front of me during the whole build as it will be tricky to fit the scratch built pipes into the EXUP with the right angle. Photo below shows where I started out. I've been struggling to get the frontmost one in place and did so until I cut too much plastic away and the pipe went too short . Well, well, glued a small piece at the end and hopefully it will do fine tomorrow. The other pipe will be trickier as it has a more complex way to the EXUP. It is hard to meassure the angle and hold that one in my head while holding the plastic rod over the candle. I've tried a few ways to sort it and think I'm on my way.



/Joel

[joelwideqvist]

Originally Posted by spark1505

i've seen you're from sweden, thats why i asked if you ever heard...

As a biker myself I've heard about them (litteraly speaking) and seen them as well. Hopefully I'll get to use a set myself some day.
Thanks for your interest and comments!
/Joel

[Ole_L]

That's an interesting project you have going. Very creative.... looking forward to seeing your progress.

[Martin S]

This bike is looking very nice Joel. Great wip thread aswell !

[joelwideqvist]

Fitted the scratch built pipes into the EXUP today. The styrene rods fit beautifulli in the mufflers but as expected it was harder to get them into the EXUP. I heated and bent the pipes and then glued them in place with super glue. After curing I put on some putty whilst still test fitted on the bike. Hopefully I'll get a hard mount as it will have to manage the heavy load. My next fear is that it will be hard to fit the system after painting as it now is in one piece...will see about that one. Here's two pics of the EXUP connection.





/Joel

[joelwideqvist]

More progress:

Glued the rear damper into the swing arm and test fitted the chain and chain guard. Chain isn't detailed yet, just painted Pale gold and XF-56 Metallic grey. Chain guard will get some washers added.





I also put the front fork together with the front wheel. You can see the small scratch built mountings for the fender. Fork legs are painted, yes Alclad II Pale gold, and the sliding parts are from a Museum Collection kit that I wasted the other year. They are made of turned brass. Lower ends of the forks are to be detailed further and Brembo markings on the calipers will be painted black.



Hope you like it, and please post any ideas or comments.
/Joel

[Samurai75007]

Wow, nice build. I would like to start a bike sometime.

[slightfan]

Top class ,as usual Joel ,this one going to be a stunner when done
And the pipes worked out good
taking that the end cans are not in final position
Shayne

[joelwideqvist]

Thanks guys. I really enjoy getting this sucker done finally. After all it's been in my mind for at least three years. I wonder how many years I will be thinking of small errors in it...
Shayne; No they're not, as you probably guessed ;-) I just put them on the pipes to see how far back they would have to go to look good. I had to twist one of them to get the pipes in right angle when glueing. I'm thinking of connecting the two cans with some kind of rods so that they don't slide later on.
Thanks again for looking.
/Joel

[Roca46]

Fantastic Joel!!!! All the combination.. .gold.. red.. black... it's just fantastic

I love this type of preparations

I hope to see an excellent pictures of it finished!

Roca.

[joelwideqvist]

Thanks Roca, I'm pretty excited myself. I just have to keep my head cool and finish it in style.
/Joel