my spondon blade

by radiobloke Sun 20 Jul 2008, 21:32

gonna be a long time til its done

going for a deadline of TT 2010

the engine was bought off Griz...hopefully you'll approve of what I'm doing to your old girl!

got the engine out of the blade frame yesterday, what a bastard job that was...the lower engine mount bolt was seized in....took friggin ages..had to get the grinder and a dremel on it in the end!

then sat the frame on the engine...

now here's the thing...
whilst the engine is out....was thinking about thowing a set of cams at it and having a bit of head work done,..just to spice it up a bit

in my racing cbr6's it was just cams and inlet/outlet machining, but it was a good reliable 20+bhp extra.

here's some pics.

by plasticorange Mon 21 Jul 2008, 16:51

You not listening to my post on the other site, or are you just sharing?.
pm me.

PO

by Tazfiend Mon 21 Jul 2008, 17:19

From a purely aesthetic point of view that frame is lovely!

by 1992fireblade Mon 21 Jul 2008, 21:50

The frame does look the business!
Keep us updated with the build radiobloke.

by radiobloke Mon 21 Jul 2008, 22:27

plasticorange wrote:You not listening to my post on the other site, or are you just sharing?.
pm me.

PO

PO...sorry mate,

I can't get on t'other site from work...will have a look in a bit!

by plasticorange Tue 22 Jul 2008, 00:03

Answered on the dark side.

PO

by griz Fri 25 Jul 2008, 16:05

Woohoo that looks great mate! clap

Sorry to hear u had a job gettin the engine out but it's taking shape now mate, I love the frame & would love to do the same type of project one day!

Keep up the good work mate Wink

by Fringe Fri 25 Jul 2008, 20:45

Sweeeeet. Wish I had the balls and the £££'s to do a Spondon. drool

by zippy Sat 26 Jul 2008, 18:40

spondon chassis are the bollocks..
have you got the swinging arm too...

by radiobloke Tue 09 Sep 2008, 15:48

ok..time for a few more piccies..

for some unknown reason my phone has decided to take really small pictures...

close up of the bottom yoke

top one to come later

my spondon blade DSCF2023

by alsieboy Tue 09 Sep 2008, 16:12

Keep the updates comming, this build is fantastic sunny

by hioctaine Tue 09 Sep 2008, 16:26

it looks great now i cnt imagine how good its going to look once its finished

by griz Mon 15 Sep 2008, 15:29

Its lookin really nice mate!

I love the swingarm too, is that a ZX10 frontend?

I'm in the process of streetfighting my blade too & will post up some pics soon Wink

by radiobloke Tue 16 Sep 2008, 21:53

yes mate..ZX10r forks, brakes and both wheels.

I have a set of 06 GSXR 750 forks in the garage..spare!

look the same, use the same brake calipers...but I picked the ZX10 front up so I didn't have to change them to fit the kwak wheel I had

gis a shout if you're interested!

by radiobloke Sat 15 Nov 2008, 22:26

Been busy today

started with this..

then did this

then fitted the yokes off the blade ( backwards) so I could fit bars to push it around ( no,...not having renthals!!)

then put a gsxr wheel in just to get it moving ( using ZX10r wheels!)

then took it outside for some air

then played with a few seat units...

not sure about the R6 one...got some more to try

so...good day
and I have more pics of the steering head for yan..top yoke should be on the way soon ( in between his Turbo bits I hope :wink: )

by yantosh Sat 22 Nov 2008, 21:06

workin on details

by radiobloke Wed 10 Dec 2008, 21:48

update

picking up a Turbo on Saturday

A SPONDON TURBO BLADE !!!!!

Yantosh made me do it!!!!!

peer pressure

he's also working on the top yoke

we did the design accross 2 countries...he sends me a 1:1 Plan on paper...I cut it out and make changes

did it twice

here's my paper yokes!

by shadow Wed 10 Dec 2008, 22:11

uuuummmm turbo (in best homer voice) hyper

by wild bill Wed 10 Dec 2008, 22:44

Making your own top yoke!

You (Radiobloke), Yantosh & Cabbie would make a good team for Scrapheap Challenge!

by radiobloke Fri 19 Dec 2008, 20:27

christmas present to myself!

by radiobloke Sat 28 Feb 2009, 22:38

did a bit today....

my spondon blade P2802032

by griz Sat 28 Feb 2009, 22:45

OMG you've done some work at long last!!! rofl

Tasty wheel & seat mate, what make are they? eyebrow

by Fringe Sun 01 Mar 2009, 21:51

Love the lines of that seat unit. clap

by radiobloke Thu 05 Mar 2009, 22:50

this project has just taken a bit of a change of direction...

I've just bought a Tuned big bore 1200cc Blackbird engine

lets see if it'll go in...

so the turbo will be going on the blade when I've finished the Sponny

Spondon BlackBlade and a Turbo Blade....that'll do !

by griz Thu 05 Mar 2009, 23:20

Thats great mate! I was gonna fit a blackbird engine in a blade next too! it should go in the spondon frame no problem, although the mounting points are a bit different but I'm sure you'll figure it out! Smile

by BlackBlade Sat 07 Mar 2009, 18:03

Well well fancy seeing you here!!!

by radiobloke Sat 07 Mar 2009, 22:20

thought it might be you!!

haha

so..today I checked out the clearance of the frame with the impending arrival of the bigger engine...

should be fine...fingers crossed