CBR400RR NC29

This is a work in progress but as the blog is being written at the same time as I am working (for a change), I thought I might as well publish it to make it a live update of sorts. So do pop back in the future to see when I finally give up and set the lot on fire. The " From Road rashed to race " Blog entry very quickly got a bit out of hand so I have removed some detail and made it more of a story. The real bones of any particular job, such as this one, are now in separate blogs which I will link between whenever relevant. This should make it easier to find useful info whilst still getting it all down. During the time I spent fart assing with engines, for the bikes strip down, I had spent a lot of time head scratching on the computer. Some of that time was on ebay and in doing so I had found the odd useful part. One in particular was a set of forks. They were listed as tidy but missing a damper rod and listed at a fairly low price as a result. N...

The " From Road rashed to race " Blog entry very quickly got a bit out of hand so I have removed some detail and made it more of a story. The real bones of any particular job, such as this one, are now in separate blogs which I will link between whenever relevant. This should make it easier to find useful info whilst still getting it all down. Seeing as I had the engine out of the bike during my initial strip down, it seemed like a good idea to drag out one of the spare engines I had bought to see what the differences were and if they would fit in the NC29 chassis as the forums seemed to suggest. I had a choice of an NC23 motor which would need different carbs due to different inlet port spacing or another NC23 motor with NC29 heads which seemed okay for a straight swap should I decide to go down that root. I picked the NC29 head/NC23 case' hybrid as this should be most similar to play spot the difference. Turns out quite a lot.  Engine moun...

This is a work in progress but as the blog is being written at the same time as I am working (for a change), I thought I might as well publish it to make it a live update of sorts. So do pop back in the future to see when I finally give up and set the lot on fire. This Blog entry very quickly got a bit out of hand so I have removed some detail and made it more of a story. The real bones of any particular job (Like the sodding engines) are now in separate blogs which I will link to whenever relevant. This should make it easier to find useful info whilst still getting it all down. I didn't waste any time getting stuck into the new CBR400RR-L NC29.  It had crash damaged fairings. It had crash damaged engine cases. It had crash damaged front fairing stay.   It had chain lube and engine oil pretty much everywhere. I needed to get this thing apart to find out how much work I had to do. I had already been shopping for bits and had a pile of spares sat in the sh...