Eddieb's DR build thread.

[Eddieb]

The stock DR650 seat and Seat Concepts seat.

[Shewolf]

mmmmmmm

[Eddieb]

They were dropped off to an upholsterer this morning to be changed over. I'm hoping to use the Seat Concepts one on the old DR at the Cold Kiwi this weekend but don't have time between now and then to do it myself.

[Eddieb]

I picked up the recovered seat today and fitted it tonight, all ready for the Cold Kiwi tomorrow.

It all looks good. A quick sit in the garage indicates it's firmer, but way more comfy having the extra width.

[gloves]

Hi Bud
We have meet once on a ride over the waiarapa wilth Mark Signal and co a few months ago.
Question is what have you done to the carb as my DR has a cycleworks exhaust
and back fires and i would like to sort it out

[Eddieb]

Hi Bud
We have meet once on a ride over the waiarapa wilth Mark Signal and co a few months ago.
Question is what have you done to the carb as my DR has a cycleworks exhaust
and back fires and i would like to sort it out

Hey, yes on the Sutherlands Hut and CNUT hill ride I believe.

They all do that, though whether yours is worse than others is hard to say. I don't recall hearing it popping.

I haven't done anything to my carb though the recommendation is to shim the needle, place a thin washer under the needle clip so that it lifts the needle slightly and richens things up.
On my bike I did notice it backfiring more after fitting the TL1000 exhaust, only subtly though. That pipe is still probably pretty restrictive compared to your pipe.

[Magnum Noel]

Hi Bud
We have meet once on a ride over the waiarapa wilth Mark Signal and co a few months ago.
Question is what have you done to the carb as my DR has a cycleworks exhaust
and back fires and i would like to sort it out

Eddie's right DR's with stock carb back fire and non standard exhaust just amplifies the effect. Mate its a great sound dont worry about it.

[Shewolf]

[Eddieb]

Haha, I didn't see that.

[ducatijim]

[QUOTE=Shewolf;1130135582]spent 7 or so hours in the saddle yesterday and it was so blissful,

QUOTE]

Goddang, how I wish I could still manage 7 hours in the 'saddle'....oh to be young again?

[Shewolf]

Goddang, how I wish I could still manage 7 hours in the 'saddle'....oh to be young again?

[Eddieb]

Garage day today.

I pulled the header off the new bike today and had a look at the weld, it wasn't the worst I've seen but still restricted so I attacked it with the drill and a few grinding thingy's.

Before:

'scuse the crappy cell phone pics but you get the idea.

After:


I didn't take the weld right back to smooth because a) the header port ID is smaller than the pipe ID, where I've ground it down to is as close as I will get without a micrometer, b) I didn't want to weaken the weld and possibly most importantly c) I ran out of grinding wheels for the drill.

The picture looks like there's still a lot of meat there but it's actually about 1mm all the way around.

Once the header was reinstalled I transferred the TL1000 pipe and Phreaky Phil midpipe off the old bike onto the new one and refitted the stock pipe on the old bike, and I've fitted my new Zeta handguards.

[Eddieb]

More garage time this afternoon so I got the Pivot Pegz and lowering brackets transferred between bikes.

I also removed the B&B bashplate and refitted the factory bashplate to the old bike, the B&B bashplate will go on the new bike when I get some new rubber for between the plate and frame.

Another job part done was mounting the smaller flexi stalk Touratech indicators. The front ones are all mounted up and going but the rear indicators require some extra wire soldering in as the leads provided aren't long enough.

I got some of these OEM plugs off Ebay a few weeks ago so that I didn't have to cut the stock wires up.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Suzuk...#ht_1543wt_939

[Eddieb]

I made my new loom up last night and got the rear indicators fully installed now.

Nordie, how much difference would cutting the airbox fully open vrs a 60mm diameter opening make?

60mm is 50% larger than the carb intake so the velocity through the opening should be quite reduced and much less of a restriction.

I was thinking of doing something like the below, but with only the upper hole in the pic installed. I don't really want to butcher the entire airbox.

[NordieBoy]

It'll be better but not as good as the whole top cut out.