Bucket build in progress

[Henk]

Anyway... love the thread.. owning a highly mod CG150 myself.
FXR ... to dam esay.

Go old school buckets..

Says the man with two FXRs that doesn't want to bring them to the track in case they get scratched

[tigertim20]

had a busy day today, so DM and I went and spent a couple hours messing around with the bikes tonight instead.

Hayden had begun stripping the rest of the unnecessary wiring of the CB, while I Started off by thinking I should do an oil change on the SL. I got as far as loosening the drain bolt, when I am interrupted by 'Tiiiiiiiiiiiiimmmmmmmmmmm..... how do I do this, what do I do next, I dunno what Im doing' (is this what its like having kids? god I hope not!!)
I went over to take a look at the tangled mess of wiring DM had managed to get strewt across the length of the bike, and set about showing him what do do, which, of course, led to doing it for him... so we (and I use the term 'we' lightly) removed the rest of the useless stuff, and shortened a few other pieces, and did a bit of soldering, before wrapping the loom back up again all tidy like.
It crossed our minds that we hadnt had it running in the last couple of weeks, and that we had only checked for spark, so thought, why not.
Found a kick starter for it, put it on, and gave it a kick. The kick starter promptly broke. so I threw the kickstarter at DM's smug little laughing stupid face, and found another one that luckily, fitted perfectly!.
Next, we remembered his fuel tank was fucked, and rather than piss around too much, we just chucked the nearest spare tank on for the sake of firing it up.
Hooked up the jump battery, and after a dozen or so kicks (each getting a little more aggressive than the last in desperation) the bike coughed, spluttered, farted once (or was that DM?....) and burbled into life.
Satisfied that DM has managed to not make a big enough hash of anything that he completely fucked the CB (how he managed to not kill it yet, I dunno, but for the sake of my sanity, I will just be gratefull!)
The next little while was spent figuring out whick tank to use on the CB, and we settled on the original SL tank. seeing as it seemed to work OK, and should require the least effort.
After this I managed to get a few minutes to put the sump plug back in the SL after draining the oil, and topped it up. Thought Id better fire it up for a minute too.
I am now looking into whether or not to completely remove the stock airbox, and just run a pod filter directly off the back of the carb. I will have to test how it runs like this, as it may not like it very much, but we will see. I also relocated the regulator a little further away from the engine as it will get quite hot when racing, and located it under the seat. The coil has also been relocated from it's hot-house like stock position above the engine, in the recess in the underside of the tank.

I Will add a few pics and a couple of vids for our progress so far

[tigertim20]

here are some pics. Not bad considering when we got them it was just a crate full of parts!
these are just the SL

[tigertim20]

and some quick vids.
hayden (also referred to as 'DM' or 'DrunkenMistake') with his CB
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And me on my SL.
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[DrunkenMistake]

Ok so today we got a bit of work done to the Buckets... After i woke up at 1:30pm
When I had arrived at the workshop TT was glueing up his CDI and then was taping it up from here to Timbuktu with insulation tape, at which I asked "What did you do to it?" and all I go was "Rebuilt it.", TT put it back into his bike and gave it a few kicks with the plug out to see if we were sparking.. Still nothing.. Rechecked the "kill plug" and it was a bit loose so put it back in and gave it a kick, and BAM one big F**k off spark, so the CDI is fixed! TT was telling me the bikes run on a 6V system so thats why the CDI decided to give up on life because we had jimmied in a 12V battery, so after all this we ripped off the air boxes on both bikes so we can put on Pod filters and make some room under the seat, we then took some scrap steal and drew the basic shape of out 6V batteries, for the sides and bottoms, Then the fun began!.. we used the plasma cutter to cut the pieces out as these pieces were the start of our new battery boxes, TT started to wield the pieces together while i cut them out and then I started to grind them town to pretty them up somewhat, TT swapped with myself and got me to wield one of the bottoms on, I think he was just looking at an excuse to ruin my ego again.. well whats left of it , go that wielded up and ground down, and the tricky part started, we havnt finished this part yet but have started it, the new battery boxes are been wielded to the inside of the frame under the seat where the air box was, the battery was originally mounted to the side of the air box ..
I think Iv averagely summed it up, I got a few pictures ill upload them later,
If anyone has a couple of 36mm pod filters they want to "lose" let us know
If iv missed anything im sure TT will fill it in :]

[Arronduke]

Bike looking good... what an effort....

Henk... we must not butt in others threads

Maybe I collect FXR's!!! naaa that would be very lame... I just want a shed as full with shit as yours !!