Turning into a VFR400 restoration project

[1-600-matt]

One down... 3 to go

[1-600-matt]

Bit of progress.
Forks in and top yoke on, just refitted the clocks.

[Dom1]

Looking good.

[Jarse]

Looking good.

+1

A lot of graft there!

[1-600-matt]

Bit more progress on the carbs. They are fiddly things to get bolted back together, it's like carburettor Tetris getting everything in place.

[1-600-matt]

What I had hoped would be a flurry of easy, shiny, tyga exhaust fitting is turning into a right pain in the arse hole.

One of the rear pipes doesn't line up very nicely, when it's forced into the collector it then drags the pipe down and the swing arm fouls the pipe. Pish it up and then clearance at the other side of the swing arm disappears, pull it back and then it would hit the spring on the shock, clear the spring and underside of the swing arm and the top of the swing arm hits the pipe. Tyga customer service is proving quite difficult.

This will be about 5 weeks I have been emailing back and forth getting nowhere. Fucked right off.

[MOzZereLLa]

Where did you get the Tyga from?

I seem to remember one of their importers being less than helpful....

[1-600-matt]

Where did you get the Tyga from?

I seem to remember one of their importers being less than helpful....

Jap4performance think he is the only uk importer

[m6rk]

my tyga pipes didn't fit either.. seems par for the course I took them down my local machine shop and got them to bend them a bit for me as gave up trying to get the issue resolved..

[1-600-matt]

my tyga pipes didn't fit either.. seems par for the course I took them down my local machine shop and got them to bend them a bit for me as gave up trying to get the issue resolved..

I may try to return them and explore another option. It's fucking bullshit to have to rework something like that.

[1-600-matt]

No resolution to the exhaust issue as yet. So I moved on to start doing a few other things while I try to get the exhaust sorted. Decided to loose fit the new rad hoses and make sure the new lower rad and exhaust don't foul. All looks good.



Quickly ran into more problems with one of the samco hoses being too short. Needs about 15mm more to get it far enough into the connections. Hopefully will get that resolved fairly easily.

[m6rk]

looking good..

return the tygas and get mark hill from mhp to make something for you..

[1-600-matt]

looking good..

return the tygas and get mark hill from mhp to make something for you..

I was in touch with mark. I'm waiting to hear back from him.

[1-600-matt]

So progress slowed somewhat by the birth of my first little one. Little garage time... I did get a while over a couple of weekends.

Exhaust I decided to modify it!! We have an SEM (scanning electron microscope) in work so on of the metallurgists could tell me that the tubing is 304 stainless. I bought some straight 304ss pipe from eBay. It's as close on dimension as I could get but is 1.2mm wall where the tyga stuff is 1mm, so the bore is 0.4mm smaller diameter, but that won't make any difference to flow as I am only inserting a small spacer to get the clearance away from the swing arm.

With only mig welding capability at home I cut the tyga pipe, rotated the front section a few degrees, put in a small spacer and tac'd it in place.



It's goin to our workshops next week to be tig welded.

The samco hose has been replaced with a new one. Just need to get some more time in the garage!

[MOzZereLLa]

Excellent.