[spyder]

I broke down and did the swingarm swap on my bike this past weekend. Took 2 days to fuckin finish 99% of it, 11hrs on Sat and another 11-12hrs on Sunday. I just have a couple small things to finish and Ill be ready to ride.. Gary (a friend of mine) is gonna mill the offset flat on the front sprocket for me, aswell as extend my kickstand. Then I just have to run my speedo sencor and re-calibrate my Veypor computer.

Heres some before, during and after pix. Enjoy :yeah:

To start Gary took me up to his machine shop and had a real nice older gentleman cut me some sweet ass swingarm axle spacers on one of the machines there. The spacers allow's me to run the '04 R6 swingarm bearings but let me use my stock FZR swingarm pivot bolt which is ALOT smaller then the R6's.

R6 spacer (swingarm bearings ride on this)

The new spacers slide inside like so

Before and after the spacer.. big difference!

Size difference between the FZR and the R6 axle

FZR axle slides right in the new spacers

 

[spyder]

FZR axle and new spacers in the 04 R6 swingarm

This tells you how fuckin skinny my rear tire was..

Stock upper shock mount.. its gotta go

Ripped it right out.. lol

The new rear end is ready to go in

 

[spyder]

I made this little deal to help me measure my cut.. It butt's up against the frome on the outside and on the inside pretty snug. Then when I start shaving the inside part of the frame I can just measure from the steel plate where the frame use to be

GET TO CUTTIN!!!

I cut away what I didnt want inside the frame (sorry no pix) and filled in the box of the frame with steel plate and welded it all in nice nice.

Then I did a mock-up fit and everythign was pretty good, but I couldnt slid the dust caps in to protect the bearings.. But the slid the new rear end in temporarily just to see what everything looked like. Talk about a HUGE difference!!

 

[spyder]

Heres the new R6 shock and linkage's

I then fab'd up an upper shock mount and lower dog bone link mount

Mounted up the new '05 ZX6r front sprocket (thanks TonyD), the 50 tooth Vortex rear sprocket and Regina gold 520 chain

Straight as an arrow, damn Im good

The new shock

 

[spyder]

Everything is all mounted up

No brake rotor in this pic but its on now

That shit is hot!

 

[DougZ]

Nice work bro. Is that an SV tail light?

 

[spyder]

That it is.. with integrated turn signals

 

[DoDriven]

Get that exhaust out of the way. Show off the new swingarm, it will look 10x better. :rock:

 

[Candyman]

Great work man, looks a ton better with that arm on therearty-smiley: :rock:

 

[DougZ]

That it is.. with integrated turn signals

cool beans. :rock:

 

[ab420]

Nice work man, it looks pimptacular!

 

[skr00zloose]

frickin sweet!

that looks 1000 times better.

i really dig the whole bike. you have to look real hard to even know it's an fzr600!

 

[shift1313]

that swingarm looks great on the bike, you just need to loose that muffler and take that votec sticker off the swingarm!

 

[rdannar]

Nice, I did the same swap, but not as nicely. You did that up right and with a lot of thought, wish I had that kind of planning since I just cut and pounded mine into place. I love the look of that swing are, hence why it is on my kawi. :rock: :rock: :rock:

 

[BLONDE BOMBER]

+1 on high mounting or re routing the exhaust... dont hide that sexy swing!

Hey spyder, with your practiced skills, and resources, you wanna help me on the r6 swing swap on my yzf? Shouldnt be much diferent than the FZR....

 

[spyder]

Hey spyder, with your practiced skills, and resources, you wanna help me on the r6 swing swap on my yzf? Shouldnt be much diferent than the FZR....

Id have to see it and measure shit to even know what to do, I dont wanna give advise and tell you to cut this and that ya know? Your bike is TOTALLY different.


I finally drove the bike tonight and the tail sit's so fuckin high... It stoppies REALLY EASY! But the suspension is stiff as a bitch, maybe its me... or the fact that the 18 year old, non adjustable (except for ride height) fzr shock felt like it was pulled from a bad mattress..

Im gonna fab up a screw type lowering link in the next couple days and drop that pig an inch or two and see how it feels.

On the bad side of things I might have to send back my Veypor computer and wire harness. I think the speedo sencor took a shit cuz it wont read, let alone it wont let me calibrate the new rear end.. idk

With every build 1 thing has to go wrong, Im just glad it was that and nothing too serious lol (knock on wood)

The REAL test ride is tommorow night, Im headed out to a local car/bike show thats held every Wed night out my way. Then Im doin a vigil ride after that for a kid that died last night on a bike. Some bitch decided to just turn in front of him, he t-boned her and pretty much died instantly

 

[BLONDE BOMBER]

Then Im doin a vigil ride after that for a kid that died last night on a bike. Some bitch decided to just turn in front of him, he t-boned her and pretty much died instantly

You can represent all of us that can't be there. It's a shame....:jpshakehead.sml: Send our wishes to his buddies and family.

 

[drunkNun]

Then Im doin a vigil ride after that for a kid that died last night on a bike. Some bitch decided to just turn in front of him, he t-boned her and pretty much died instantly

Really sorry to hear about that dude. On another note the swingarm looks awesome.