04 CBR 954 Streetfighter

limitless · Sep 26, 2011

Hi all, after weeks of searching through pages and pages on this forum on how to 'streetfighter' a fireblade, I gathered all the info I needed and then decided to sell my GIXER 1000 and brought this 954 fireblade on an 04 plate.

As you can see she was in mint condition.
Before I carry on i'd like to say thanks to everyone on here for sharing there info, and how to's, keep up the great work!
Hopefully my build might do the same for someone else.

limitless · Sep 26, 2011

I started with stripping the back end of the bike, to make way for the VFR800 swingarm.

limitless · Sep 26, 2011

The VFR 800 swingarm from an 02 Vtec.

Removed all bearings and trimmed the inner edge of the swingarm down, 4mm on the foot brake side.

This should be your end result

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A big thanks to Papabear and r3voltn1 for this info.
next thing was to make up the sleaves for the vfr swingarm bolt, i got the cbr swingarm bolt.

Cut it to the lenght of the cbr engine (183mm) and bored the inside out to 20mm, as this is going to be the sleave that sits in the back of the engine.

Then me mate Shaun at WOODS RFS turned up some sleaves to go over the ends of the vfr bolt.

Also got Shuan to turn down the vfr swingarm sleaves.
1. the sprocket side to allow the bolt to pass through further to the other side.
2. the foot brake side for the swingarm sprocket to stay allined with the front spocket.

ctluba · Sep 26, 2011

Nice details on the work needed to adapt that swinger. A fuckin idiot like me could probably pull off the job with directions like that to follow!!!:thumbsup:

limitless · Sep 26, 2011

Thanks ctluba, just trying to do my bit for the CF community.
Papabears info helped alot.

limitless · Sep 26, 2011

VFR 800 Swingarm in.

limitless · Sep 26, 2011

Just waiting for my new rear wheel to turn up.

Mean while i started work on fitting an 2008 R1 rear end.

The 954 and R1 tail.

Cut off the mounting brackets from the 954.

cesarderio · Sep 26, 2011

Off to a great start. Sub'd

FIGHTERMC · Sep 26, 2011

excelllent start there mate
and will look the the dogs balls{good LOL}
when finished.

speed is all i need · Sep 26, 2011

i`ll be wathing this one for sure

spdu4ia · Sep 27, 2011

loving the R1 tail

twr3cks · Sep 27, 2011

sub'd cuz it's freakin awesome!

FIGHTER7R · Sep 27, 2011

looking forward to this one nice bike dude :metal:

rubbersdown · Sep 27, 2011

looking good, im working on a 954 right now too.

limitless · Sep 28, 2011

Thanks everyone.
Its been tricky positioning the R1 tail, as i'm a short ass i want a to be able to reach the ground.
Where the tail has to mount on the frame it comes 2" higher than normal, so i copped 3/4" off both sides.

limitless · Sep 28, 2011

R1 tail cut and fixed in position, then i cleaned all the paint off ready for welding.

limitless · Sep 28, 2011

This is what the tail will look like when finished.

Also if you follow my swingarm measurements then your chain alignment will look like this.

JRK5892 · Sep 28, 2011

that looks mean man... love the swing arm

FIGHTERMC · Sep 28, 2011

fook ya.............
that r1 tail is made for it

fieldarcher · Sep 28, 2011

Hi, the back end will look great, what will you do with the front?

limitless · Sep 29, 2011

Thanks Fieldarcher, i was in your neck of the woods today at Venhill sorting out my custom rear break line, not to sure about the front end, I've stripped off the stock front end and was thinking of a showyo mask.

929_adam · Sep 29, 2011

Coming along beautifully man! Love those bikes! Make us proud! :metal:

ultimate fighter · Sep 29, 2011

You cannot go wrong with showyo parts

They do great products

limitless · Oct 3, 2011

Could anyone please help?

My knowledge for knowing the different grades of aluminum are very limted, and i'm now stuck trying to find out what grades of alloy the honda cbr 954 (03) and the Yamaha R1 (08) are made of, for me to continue welding the bike together.
Would using 6082 be best for welding them together.

Any advice would be much appreciated.
Cheers

limitless · Nov 24, 2011

It's been a while since i last posted anything on here, finally got all the r1 tail section welded up to the 954.

Before

After

Blended all the welds and scrached for filling.

limitless · Nov 25, 2011

After hours of sanding and filling, i finally got to primer the tail.

Then after all that hard work i decided not to go down the lithium battery route due to there aren't any suppliers in the uk, and didn't want the hassle of waiting for a replacement unit.
So i went with the off the shelf gel filled standard battery, which meant cutting the R1 tail about and then welding a box into it.

limitless · Nov 25, 2011

So back down to WOODS RFS to see me buddy Shaun to get a battery box made then welded into the R1 Subframe.
While he had the bike i got him to weld up another bracket to bolt the petrol tank to the subframe as welll as making it still tilt back for maintenance work.

Full Tilting tank

929_adam · Nov 25, 2011

sick man! Thanks for the update! Keep at it, coming along nicely! You planning an undertail exhaust setup on there?

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