7/14 katana project .....

by **SBeachill** » Mon Jan 28, 2013 10:13 am

FBJ admin wrote:Coming on fantastic mate. Its vonna be gorgeous. You decided on the colour

Thanks mate, no not decided on colour as yet, still need to decide if I'm putting frame back in silver too??

Steve

by **SBeachill** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 1:53 pm

It's returned from the pipe makers.......and I have decided to christan it... FRANKENKAT

Steve

by **FBJ admin** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 2:21 pm

Looks great Steve. Aweaome quick progress. Its gonna be a torque monster. Do they go well with the turbo fitted. Did your old one

by **SBeachill** » Wed Jan 30, 2013 2:33 pm

Last 14 turbo put out 196bhp and 170ft/lb of torque

Steve

by **SBeachill** » Sat Feb 02, 2013 6:15 pm

now she's back home I tried the bodywork back on her so I can check everything clears ok and start planning bracing etc

Steve

by **SBeachill** » Tue Feb 19, 2013 7:23 pm

Finally got back in the cave to do some work after a few weeks out of sorts! Started on front end fitting Bandit 12 yokes (stem swapped) and ZZR1100 front wheel (bearing crush spacer swap) top bandit yoke is in engineers as we speak being modded to suit new stem

Cheers

Steve

by **SBeachill** » Wed Feb 20, 2013 3:33 pm

Got the modded Bandit 12 top yoke back today

stuck some straight bars on to see how it looked and felt

Steve

by **SBeachill** » Sat Mar 02, 2013 9:15 pm

Started on some of the dirty work today.

Welded up the removable frame rail:

Cleaned the rail up after welding and refitted for now

Finally rather than cutting away the original engine mounts I made an engine mount to hang of the original to locate the engine

Steve

by **FBJ admin** » Sun Mar 03, 2013 5:52 pm

Steve mate. What did you do to ur bandit top yoke to fit the kat headstock?

by **SBeachill** » Mon Mar 04, 2013 9:00 am

FBJ admin wrote:Steve mate. What did you do to ur bandit top yoke to fit the kat headstock?

Had an engineer open up the bore on the top yoke to fit the Kat stem, used a slim yoke nut to mount bottom yoke so the top yoke could drop in as far as possible and going to have a stepped top bolt made to lock the top yoke on stem

Got some work done on frame to start sorting the chain line out yeserday.

Also made a template up to double sking the outer frame panel where the swingarm and top engine mount bolt through, just a bit of belt n braces type thing.

Steve