VFR owners' thread, for VFRPS members and prospective members

[Jonno.]

There was a cdi on tm a few weeks ago.
What happened?

[HenryDorsetCase]

My "project" NC30 came with fairly average* looking wiring. The motor is in, turns over but there is no spark. Its not cost effective to fuck about with the loom as is. I have sourced a loom, and that might fix it. If not, new CDI time. Yay. I canl try and make it run with the CDI out of my track bike first up. I have pretty much lost interest in the project, so when I get it running I will selll it. But its worth nothing if it doesnt run. If it doesent run I will wreck it out on trademe, and keep the rego plate and mainframe, in case I ever want to put my other one back on the street. Hilarity.

Oh, by "I" I mean Mr SpannerMan, who is actually doing this for me. As I say, I've pretty much lost interest.

[koba]

My "project" NC30 came with fairly average* looking wiring. The motor is in, turns over but there is no spark. Its not cost effective to fuck about with the loom as is. I have sourced a loom, and that might fix it. If not, new CDI time. Yay. I canl try and make it run with the CDI out of my track bike first up. I have pretty much lost interest in the project, so when I get it running I will selll it. But its worth nothing if it doesnt run. If it doesent run I will wreck it out on trademe, and keep the rego plate and mainframe, in case I ever want to put my other one back on the street. Hilarity.

Oh, by "I" I mean Mr SpannerMan, who is actually doing this for me. As I say, I've pretty much lost interest.

Pulse coils?

[HenryDorsetCase]

Old CDI was toast.

[jono035]

Old CDI was toast.

So still lookin for that new CDI then?

[HenryDorsetCase]

Nah, I have officially lost interest. I am going to sell it with full disclosure, or wreck it out on trademe. I have a VFR400 trackbike which is setup really nicely and runs well (if not in great cosmetic condition) and thats enough. If I can afford it, I would like a Street Triple next year. Want to keep the Scrambler too.

[gatch]

This may be a well known thing already. But I just came across a website of a UK based shop. They deal in replacement electrickery for japanese bikes. They sell regulator/rectifiers for our gorgeous vfr's. Also NEW 18 pole generator units for about 100 pounds.

Lots of different models covered there.

http://www.electrexworld.co.uk/home-1-0.html

[Harvd]

Yup just bought one and installed today. finally all running nicely again. mind you i replaced the entire charging system...with a new battery and r6 r/r

[motorbyclist]

I'll just leave this here then:
http://www.davidsilverspares.co.uk/parts/part_31330/

and there's a guy who sells programmable CDI units for NC30 also

[motorbyclist]

http://www.davidsilverspares.co.uk/parts/part_22860/

[jono035]

The programmable CDIs are Ignitech units (made in Czech Republic) and sold by Rick Oliver (http://www.rvf.dk/rickoliver/) in the UK. I've got one of them at the moment so I've also got a spare CDI in perfect condition that I may look to sell.

I also bought a set of jets and needles off him to shift it to the UK stock jet sizes (a little richer) before playing with the CDI. The CDIs look like a pretty well made unit, lots of stuff to play with.

Total cost: GBP 215 or about $470 all up, shipped.

Will install all that over the next week or 2 and report back if anyone is interested.

[koba]

Will install all that over the next week or 2 and report back if anyone is interested.

Yeah, Let us know.

[imac]

I'm toying with getting a VFR800 spending in the $12k range, are there any "gotchas" or common problems that I should be looking out for?
Cheers

[glegge]

i have a vfr800 VTEC 2002.

the oil lines that run to the cooler (kneal down in front of bike and look up under cowling under where the head lights are) you will see the oil cooler and two silver pipes going away, one from each end. they have a rubber cover over the hoses. the hoses rusted on mine. so check these hoses for rust. you dont want oil coming out of these like i did. and they are about 300 bucks to replace.

timing chain noise at start up, cold idle (up to about 70deg on the temperature gauge). this is common from what i read, and can be fixed by new timing chain tensioners, i'm told. not a hard/ but tricky job.

thats about all i can think of.

PS, mines coming up for 115,000 oil change now.

[vifferman]

I'm toying with getting a VFR800 spending in the $12k range, are there any "gotchas" or common problems that I should be looking out for?
Cheers

There were several recalls for various things in Mrka and Yrp, but here where we don't have a culture of litigation, I don't think they were instigated. They involved the proportioning valve for the combined braking system, the stator on some years, the front wiring harness (a common source of electrical faults). The earlier 800s (19989 - 2001) had none of these problems, nor the horrible Honda camchain tensioners.