I have been looking for an oil cooler for months on ebay, but most looked squashed, filthy or corroded. Finally spotted one last week, at 20 pounds the price was good and had the oil lines. it turned up this morning, its sound, clean and the two oil pipes even released without any effort. It was off a GT750 shaft drive P7 model, smallish, but that way will stay out of the way.
Spent the afternoon making some mounts and welding them to the frame, careful to check lower yoke misses when on full lock and there is enough room when hard on the brakes.
It is also important that it does not sit directly in line with the top part of the head as it can lead to the exhaust cam area getting too hot.
The frame is now ready to have all the bits taken off and sent for media blasting and powdercoating.
What I envisaged as a small job ended up with steering lock removed, rear footrest brackets removed and different style ones made and welded on, frame bracing, oil cooler mounts welded on, new lockstop for ZX9R yokes, adapting jb's B1 rear section so as to accept tail cowling, moving the seat brackets, altering the angle of the seat stay slide and moving the top rear brake master cylinder mount back a few mm to accept the brembo one.
