What did you do to your Vmax today? Part 2

[user 75206]

Do you happen to have a list of the parts you used to do this? I'm looking for decent bar end mirrors.. all the ones I've found look cheap. I can't see crap out of the stock mirrors.

What mods did you have to do to make them work?

 

[user 75206]

I added Highway Pegs (thanks Jim @VMAX Gen2 Highway Pegs) and engine guards.

 

[CaptainKyle]

Dang Kyle, you must have the Midas touch. The “bonuses” that I find when I get them home that I have missed are usually unpleasant ones…

I guess it makes up for the grabrail and back fender that he did not tell me was missing. I do not always have good luck ! He said 2nd was good but I have heard that before ! I went all the way to Mississippi to an airforce base to pick up a clean 85 the guy guaranteed nothing was a matter besides been sitting and I really appreciate the people serving so like to think they are honest but this guy knew it had problems after digging for his name in Facebook post.

 

[CaptainKyle]

Working on more carbs today not for mine though.

 

[TK3333]

added Highway Pegs

Nice lookin bike. Like the low backrest and tail bag, just enough for storage but not too big to look outta place.

 

[Jerry Klay]

I added Highway Pegs (thanks Jim @VMAX Gen2 Highway Pegs) and engine guards.

That looks like a very nice highway peg solution..

 

[gentsvmax]

Well not today but yesterday I rode my machine to get it to "normal" operating temp.
It was 19 bone chilling degree's, felt like 40 below at 30 mph.
But, I got to ride!
I'm hopefully wrapping up a complete jetting change for up here at 5280 that
without the advice of Vinmax, and some postings in the carb tune section, wouldn't have happened. Many, many thanks, I've got total gratitude here.
I have tried and could not tune it well on my own.
The bike was running so well I couldn't believe it!
I will post the jetting, my bikes setup, alt. etc. in this forum's post-your-setup
section.
I really want to see how the difference in air temp (density) will effect my adjustments between now and in more normal riding temps.
The mod monkey say's dyno time or at least an A/F/R reading needs to happen to gauge the real effects beyond my seat-of-the-pants elation
from one freezing blast around the hood.

 

[williamwallace760]

good man i rode my vmax around the block at 34 degrees man it was coldddddddddd

 

[desert_max]

Rode up the hill to Superior yesterday on the 86 in tandem with a buddy on his Connie. BBQ run!

It was about 60 when we left. Approaching 70 on the way back down. We ate out on the deck in the sunshine with the smokers pouring that wonderful wood smoke in the air all around us.

This 86 is a joy to ride. The 05 had better be on its game to dethrone this thing.

 

[user 75206]

That looks like a very nice highway peg solution..

Look for Gen2 Highway Pegs on Facebook

 

[CaptainKyle]

Just kind of hopped around today and worked on a number of different things.

 

[D Larson]

Just kind of hopped around today and worked on a number of different things.

How many do you have? I count at least four in the picture.

 

[gentsvmax]

Just kind of hopped around today and worked on a number of different things.

GOTDAM man I wish I would have talked to before I had my bike painted!
The guys here did a good enough job, in fact I think it looks great, but your work shows alot more original creativity needed for a VMax.
Those bikes and your V8 sleeper P/U look great.

 

[CaptainKyle]

GOTDAM man I wish I would have talked to before I had my bike painted!
The guys here did a good enough job, in fact I think it looks great, but your work shows alot more original creativity needed for a VMax.
Those bikes and your V8 sleeper P/U look great.

Thank you !

 

[CaptainKyle]

How many do you have? I count at least four in the picture.

Just the 4 and a lot of parts. I buy and sell a lot of them though and part a lot out. My blue and white 85 is the only one that stays here permanently.

 

[Fire-medic]

Just kind of hopped around today and worked on a number of different things.

The paint of Kyle's '85 reminds me of the C2 Corvette Gran Sport cars, probably the most-expensive Corvettes ever-built by the factory. Dig those 58mm side-draft Webers!




The 1962 C2 Corvette Grand Sport: One of the Rarest Corvettes Ever - LSX Magazine

 

[Marauder03]

I started yesterday, let it run for a while. To much ice on the driveway to get it to the sloppy roads so all I could do was let warm up and blip the throttle. Sounds like Mozart to me! Not so much to my wife, don’t care lol! Maybe today a short ride around the neighborhood. I know, pretty lame but pretty much all I can do to it until I get my parts.

 

[CaptainKyle]

First day we have had good weather so finally got out and got to run this thing thru the paces.

 

[Mass 2112]

I had a hard morning banding 16 angus bulls @ 400lb. and smaller. Better them than me lol, but it got up to 72 deg. this afternoon and I been putting some aftermarket small changes to my bike so I got her out and hit the road for about 2hr. BIKE ran great but it was weird with warm air hitting ya in the face an snow in the ditch. Great afternoon to ride.

 

[gentsvmax]

First day we have had good weather so finally got out and got to run this thing thru the paces.

Yea I think we're ready to call this winter a wrap and get out and ride!
I got to get out today, 41 degrees.
I take it out for a run to good operating temp then on back home and love every freezing minute of the ride.
I'm trying some jetting combo's, makin some mods, just trying to keep the mod monkey in check LOL.
During my carb R&R which I could do blind folded (Strange Iv never had to take carbs off any other bike this often LOL) anyway I finally got tired of the
bowl drain hoses getting caught on the manifold boots, pulling them of the little barbed drain fittings.
So I have zip tied the hose at the barbed fitting end and made little pull proof holders for the bracket end of these drain hoses out of pop rivet heads.
All for the shut-in mod monkey....