Re: my spondon blade

by **1992fireblade** on Sun 08 Mar 2009, 15:23

Damn them yokes look kinda sexy dude!

by **cabbie** on Sun 08 Mar 2009, 17:46

1992fireblade wrote:Damn them yokes look kinda sexy dude!

Don't they just hyper

Will the bike be ready for the Mayday run? rofl

by **radiobloke** on Sun 08 Mar 2009, 20:47

which year?

by **radiobloke** on Sun 08 Mar 2009, 20:50

cheers blackblade

hoping not to need any mods....we'll see!

by Fringe on Mon 09 Mar 2009, 10:41

Jus shown ya work to my m8.
we droolin.
Looks Brill woot

by **radiobloke** on Mon 09 Mar 2009, 15:45

picking the bird engine up 9am saturday morning

expect pics saturday night!

by **1992fireblade** on Mon 09 Mar 2009, 16:01

radiobloke wrote:picking the bird engine up 9am saturday morning

expect pics saturday night!

Are those pictures going to be fitted??? Blimey! You dont hang about mate. Lol

by **fastbikefinder** on Mon 09 Mar 2009, 16:24

1992fireblade wrote:

Are those pictures going to be fitted??? Blimey! You dont hang about mate. Lol

It's a fast engine......

by **radiobloke** on Mon 09 Mar 2009, 21:32

gonna try n dry fit it for size

by Fringe on Thu 12 Mar 2009, 17:53

where ya up to Radiobloke hyper

by **radiobloke** on Thu 12 Mar 2009, 21:05

like I said....picking up the engine on Saturday

done some research...some blades with bird engines have cut frames...some don't

Griz gave me a link to a wicked Swedish site...no, not one of THOSE sites...a fighter site with a blackblade fighter build...so thats bin a good read

but...roll on Saturday

by Fringe on Thu 12 Mar 2009, 21:09

Post the link. I wanna see hyper

by **griz** on Thu 12 Mar 2009, 22:19

Fringe wrote:Post the link. I wanna see

Here you fringe :-
http://www.sporthoj.com/forum/showthread.php?t=162141

I'm wanna do one of these next eyebrow

by **fastbikefinder** on Thu 12 Mar 2009, 23:42

griz wrote:

Here you fringe :-
http://www.sporthoj.com/forum/showthread.php?t=162141

I'm wanna do one of these next

I can't read swede LOL, 25 page thread and he painted all those bits at home

Thought they'd have powder coaters in Sweden?

Swedish streetfighter of the year 2008

I don't like the frame being welded personally, I'd be inclined to manufacture a bracket or 2 to avoid that, He's done a good job allround and the machine is very impressive but half the MOT stations over here would be in a quandry wether to fail it or not due to the frame job as it would be officially classed as a frame repair.

by **radiobloke** on Fri 13 Mar 2009, 11:53

plenty of bikes around with framework on them...

and there's plenty of MOT testers who

a, have no idea what the frame should look like
B, are bike freindly and will pass it

the brown bits look pants...but its an impressive build, with no major frame cuts, just the mounts

by **radiobloke** on Fri 13 Mar 2009, 11:55

saying that...hopefully some nice billet brackets will do the job eyebrow

its not too far out!!

by **fastbikefinder** on Fri 13 Mar 2009, 18:58

radiobloke wrote:plenty of bikes around with framework on them...

and there's plenty of MOT testers who

a, have no idea what the frame should look like
B, are bike freindly and will pass it

I'd pass it but there are a lot that wouldn't.

It's just a shame that all that work and it's slightly let down but that frame job.

I wouldn't be happy with it, it sticks out like a sore thumb.

Just my opnion.

by **radiobloke** on Fri 13 Mar 2009, 22:30

could be finished better..

by **1992fireblade** on Fri 13 Mar 2009, 22:35

That white Swedish streetfighter of the year for 2008 looks very nice!

by Fringe on Sat 14 Mar 2009, 10:48

radiobloke wrote:the brown bits look pants...but its an impressive build, with no major frame cuts, just the mounts

I'm with you on that, should be RED.
Apart from that it 'ACE'. woot

by **radiobloke** on Mon 16 Mar 2009, 10:34

fell out with this f**king thing now

will post when my dummies are back in the pram

by **fastbikefinder** on Mon 16 Mar 2009, 11:14

radiobloke wrote:fell out with this f**king thing now

????

by Fringe on Mon 16 Mar 2009, 12:27

????

by **griz** on Mon 16 Mar 2009, 12:58

Oh no mate please tell me it fits ok, I'd be well upset if its not looking to good!

If it don't fit mate I'll have the engine off ya! eyebrow

by **radiobloke** on Mon 16 Mar 2009, 13:00

trying to decide if I should pour petrol all over my garage and set fire to it....or not...right now!

normal service will be resumed at some point when thew smoke clears

by **griz** on Mon 16 Mar 2009, 13:06

radiobloke wrote:trying to decide if I should pour petrol all over my garage and set fire to it....or not...right now!

normal service will be resumed at some point when thew smoke clears

Oh my, that don't sound good mate!

Come on spill the beans......

Tell us all about it....

by Fringe on Mon 16 Mar 2009, 13:16

We're all right behind ya.
Chin up

by **1992fireblade** on Mon 16 Mar 2009, 17:22

Come on dude....... Its good to talk!

by **radiobloke** on Mon 16 Mar 2009, 21:49

i'm sulking....

by **radiobloke** on Tue 17 Mar 2009, 21:23

RIGHT....here goes....

picked up the engine...had a good natter to the guy selling it...ex racers can always talk bollocks for hours!

got the engine home...mate comes round to buy the GSXR1000 and gives me a lift out of the car with it.....and takes the gixxer home ( yey, more cash and space!)

so...dropped the blade engine out...lifted the frame over the bird engine..."sweet"...me thinks...top end slots between the rails..."brilliant!!!"

then I lower the back of the frame....and try to line up the engine mounts..."BOLLOCKS!!!!"

the rear mounts don't line up,...or rather I can't get them close as the engine mount by the head fouls the engine case.

tried all sorts of different ways...but the frame wont fit without some frame mods...removing the engine mounts and re positioning them.

for referance, and to make sure I wasnt missing anything...I think ...I'll drop the blade frame over it...

Griz...remember you wondered if the frame was twisted??
f**k me mate...its been squished to buggery!...but we knew that.

SO...I had a plan...blackbird spondon..and a blade turbo...but thats kinda shot to shit now.

the last 3 days have been spent pondering weither or not I should cut and weld the Spondon frame....basically I can't...I can't do it and risk the frame twisting or making a bodge of it...just can't bring myself to do it.

well,....all is not lost...I still have a Spondon blade to build...and on the shelf I have an awesome motor for my next build...a blackbird fighter!!

just got to work out which one gets the turbo!! lol!