Specfx 900

Saturday night to Monday morning progress on project 750/900. Will be tagged as
special fx900.
Front end almost ready to install. Safety inspection on the 8th.

 

So far, so good! Good luck, we will be watching and wishing you well. I do like those Diversion fairings.....

 

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Thanks. This is based on an 84 xj750rl in Canada. We call those fj600 fairings here.
The rest is 83 900 engine, 86 fj600 bodywork, fz750 forks, fzr400 fr wheel and diversion rear wheel.

 

Engine slid in peacefully on new cradle lift recently welded up. Makes it an easy one man job. Better pics of it won't load right now

 

Some good progress today
Exhaust welded up and installed
Cables sorted. Brake hoses being developed. Or robbed from other units.
Gets a test drive soon hopefully

 

@Jarich, that engine cradle is slick! Could we impose on you for info or pics of how you attach it to the engine? Or is it attach the engine to it.....

 

That is something my 63-year-old back wishes I thought of 40 years ago. I bolt onto the intake manifolds with two of these brackets and slide the c-shaped cradle into them. These were drilled for the 550/600 head and were just being drilled to bolt to the 900 head.
The top mount slides sideways to allow perfect level.
Once I have it on a sliding beam it will be the easiest one man engine install system.
The cradle is from an old exercise machine and it was exactly the shape when I went looking for something like this. But it could be easily duplicated. Even if you put a bar across the top and had a guy on either side lifting it would still be very easy.
We didn't even so much as bump the frame putting in the engine.

 

Very cool rig. Thank you for the pics.

 

No problem and thanks for the interest. I have better pictures but have trouble with loading some. Everything's from the same camera but probably 30 or 40% of my pictures say an error occurred
I switched longer rear shocks and drop the front and think it really improved the stance