"My Green Connector Melted" rebuild

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Got some work done tonight.... I thinknill let the pictures do the talking

Rotors re-drilled to stock spec:



Mounted:



New pads:



And where i left off:



Tomorrow ill be flushing brakes and clutch.

I found today too that im going to need a new radiator. Its cracked and leaking. Oh well, upgrade time. Any suggestions on a nice alum rad? Pm me.

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New parts coming in soon. Delkevic radiator and new exhaust in the works. Hopefully santa brings some woodcraft rearsets because my brake pedal is snapped off.

Remember this face

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Some goodies came last night. Still waitin on one more piece from
M4. Its too cold to work in the garage today especially since the space heater broke.

[gmillz85]

Got a small amount of work done on my day off today until i ran into a snag.

Day infinity of build: replace radiator

As you can see the old one took quite the beating. Mangled piece of scrap metal.




The new one is sitting in the corner for now until my new fan comes in from muzzy, the stock plastic one was missing 2 fins and spun crooked so it needed to be replaced, so for now im on hold. Stay tuned.

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Little work done. The steering damp was hitting the lower tree preventing full side to side movement.

Before:


Did some grinding:


After:


It doesnt quite touch but thats because of my naked geadlight brackets, but its close so im happy.

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Santa is real everyone, and his name is blair layton.

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Got my fan in today and the radiator buttoned up and mounted. Exhaust is finished too. Tank is the last thing on the list to be buttoned up then bodywork is off for paint. More later.

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One huge qualm ive had with the 1k from day one were the spongy feeling brakes. Even using a vacuum bleeder never got them as stiff as other bikes ive ridden. So my solution was obviously new rotors, versah pads and these:



Stainless steel and bypasses the splitter. Cant wait to do some stoppies.

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Wrapped my exhaust today. I did it before and i like the look, this time i did it even better and like it even more with the standard sized exhaust compared to my shorti.

Before:



Today:









Also swapped the gold levers for some black shortis. Black grips coming too as well as new bar ends. Anyone need a pair o gold levers for an sv1k? Ill let em go cheap pm me.

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Finally found some time to work on things. Winter blows.

Laid some metal on the tank. Little more work to but almost there.





Alos went all black up front. Much better.



And one more because its starting to remind me of my bike again.