750 seca project

ok guys looking for ideas. i have an 82 750 SECA thats for sale but if i dont sell it soon its gonna be my new project the bike is in good shape and runs great but i took it in on trade and im not a big fan of the huge gauge cluster and massive square headlight so i want to change that for sure. also wanted to know how i should go about lowering the bike and wanted to know about a 4 in to header. i like the way guys are doin the cafe style but i dont want to get into chopping the frame up. and last but not least i gotta get rid of those ugly handle bars. any ideas would be very helpful or if your interested in the bike as well just let me know.

 

you can check my gallery I got ride of the gages anf handle bars pretty easy to do. To lower it just get shorter shocks and slide the fork tubes up you usually have to shorten the kick stand if you lower it alot

 

get a used top triple and riser from a smaller XJ, ditch the gauges altogether, and put on a 5 3/4" headlight like this http://www.debrix.com/items/item.aspx?itemid=141536 and you are good to go... $50-$60 and you're done and wow, what a difference!

 

keep me in mind for your instrument package and headlight bezel. i could certainly use them...

thanks

 

chances are very good i will be shedding the instrument cluster and headlight from my 750 seca as well in the coming winter. If the OP doesnt wish to part with them i certainly will.

 

thanks for the input guys. what about getting back of the bike lower? and anybody know what kind of clearence issues i might have when lowering

 

Try to sell it.
That bike is in way to good original shape to chop it up.

 

If I suddenly came into possession of a clean and complete Seca 750 and planned to keep and ride it, I would be looking to do the same thing: lose all the "square stuff" and go 'old school' on the headlight and gauges while still keeping it looking Yamaha all the way. Like DW said, you can do the conversion easily by swapping the upper tree from a different Yammie. Of course, I would save and carefully preserve all the stock parts, and wouldn't cut or damage anything in the conversion process. That way it could always be put back to original.

 

I hear ya, I ride a 650rj, so round is the way to go.
Big round headlight!
8O

 

ive thought of doing that to my xj750rj. the roundy round stuff that it...

i picked up a set of gauges from a 79 XS750 with a proper 120 (140?) mph speedo. it needs new gaskets to seal the upper bezel with the can but ive not looked to hard for them yet...

is there a standard aftermarket 8" round headlight out there or does everyone just swap out one from a 650?

would one of those swap straight across or would it require some fabbing of the mount? i can do that or get it done but i dont like to have to experiment...

 

Dave I can give you a 550 headlight bucket to play with I have extras; and in a month or so I'll have a whole "extra" assembly (as soon as my parts come back from being BLACK chromed.)

 

ok i think ill probably hang on to it then anybody know if im going to have clearence issues and how to get the back of the bike down

 

First: ROUND HEADLIGHTS RULE!!! Sorry... now then,
As far as clearance the best way to check is to remove one rear shock and take its spring off. Put that shock back on and take the other one off. Take the bike off the stand and the rear suspension will fully collapse. See how much clearance you have to the fender. Then you can:

1: Get rear shocks shorter than stock based on the amount of clearance you have.
OR
2: Get an old school "lowering kit" which consists of two links that move the lower shock mounts rearward about 1 1/2" or so. JUST saw one on eBay now I can't find it.
OR
3: Don't screw with the suspension at all, get the seat redone if you need your butt closer to the pavement. I can recommend http://www.sargentcycle.com/custserv.htm They do great work cheap.

Finally; I can totally understand the desire to change handlebars. I have NEVER as in NEVER met a Jap bike with handlebars that DIDN'T put my wrists at a weird angle. I have replaced the handlebar on every Jap bike I have ever owned starting with my first street bike the potent CB160 (Sport!) The Norton has its original bar but I did saw about 3/4" off each end. Don't tell the Norton guys.

 

i kinda like the way seat is im not a big fan of those tiny things some guys call seats im 6'1 but i just didnt know if it would look goofy with just the front lowered

 

I wouldn't say you were so much "lowering" the front as correcting it. Lowers bars are the way to go, both my 550 Secas got lower bars before I rode them a mile. Won't look goofy at all, I think it makes the bike look more aggressive and purposeful. (Not quite as much as clip-ons do but without rearsets they're just damn uncomfortable...) I choose bars by sitting on the bike with NO bars on it, and putting my arms where I would want them to be. (And did I mention round headlights RULE? I thought so...) I personally think a 750 Seca with low (tubular) bars, a round headlight and old-school round instruments would be totally SEXY. I've actually been considering taking my speedo transplant on the '83 to the next level and going to separate round-can white-face instruments like on the later Max's... Plus you got the second coolest color.

 

where do you live and how much do you want for it?
k

 

im asking 1000 obo its for sale in the trade sell and wanted section

 

Tofty,
I was at the same delemna when I got my 750 Seca. It looked identical to yours. I hated the speedo/tach box, square headlight, tank shape, and event he color (silver like yours)
There are so many ways to change the looks of these bikes. The ideas are endless.
I ended up with a round headlight off of a Kawasaki, mounted on ears off of a Suzuki (couldn't even tell you what model)
I swapped the guages for a single speedometer off of a CB350 Honda and made my own mount. The stock cable worked perfect with it and it is more accurate than the stock guage. I don't use a tach, as I don't seem to rev it high enough to make that an issue.
I changed the gas tank for one off of a 650 Maxim. So I had to change the side covers to ones I made out of aluminum.
I then lowered the back by cutting the springs off 1", which brought it down to my liking. Then put the rear wheel/tire setup on it to have a fatter rear tire (looks sweet)
Then I cut the frame rails and used a Harley bobbed fender on the rear and used an LED tailight I bought at an auto store.
I ve chnaged just about everything on the bike to make it more user friendly. I didn't like the foot controls where they were either, so I made my own forward controls out of bits a pieces I had from other bikes.
I added some Harley mufflers for a lot better sound too.
My bike looked identical to yours when I started (same color too) and
this is what it looks like now:

 

Got any close ups of your forward controls?

 

I don't have any real good photos of my forward controls, but this should give you an idea of how I made them. I used 1" tubing and welded two pieces of flat stock to it to mount to the front lower motor mounts (just had to change to longer bolts)
The ends have a flat 1/4' plate for the controls and foot pegs (or mini floorboards in my case) to mount to. I made my own control rods for the shifter and brake. The shifter is only 1/4", which is strong enough. But the brake side had to be 3/8" rod to prevent it from bending when applying the brake.

 

as a fellow ohioian its freezing out side pull it in and start doing it up its winter and sucks selling a bike right now mine is a 81 750 look in my gallery mine is about as low as it can go here it is a lttle lower now with the 16"wheel than in the pic