What did you do to your Vmax today?

[gleno]

Ok, I finished the broadsword Sissy bar today without any more bloodshed. I painted the sword and crosspieces sort of a metallic fleck Mercedes Gray with silver for the centerpiece holding it all to gether to disguise the bolts. My friend the welder said welding stainless steel would be a bugger and the bolts hold it just fine.

So there it is, in all it's glory!!! The wife says I am suicidal and wants to be sure I am insured. My daughter, spawnette, says it looks awesome....

I'm sure this accessory would appeal to some of the European V-maxers. Real Gothic, Teutonic, Viking feel to it that's for sure.

 

[lankeeyankee]

Rode about 200 miles with a friend on his GSXR1100. :eusa_dance:
I think I have quite a bit better acceleration, but he can overtake me after a bit.

Broke speedo cable I think. :confused2:

Went and watched sprints at the local racetrack.

Either something was wrong with his GSXR or he isnt an expierenced rider.
I have owned both motorcycles and the GSXR is quicker in accleration, mid range roll on, top end. But the VMAX does have better accleration up to 65-75 mpg than a GSXR750 that is if you know how to launch your VMAX to its full potential.

 

[lankeeyankee]

Took a ride with my GF up to KY to play some scratch off lotto tickets, bought some smokes, and just enjoy the ride. Was able to cruise at 90MPH and a quick blast to 115MPH with out being jabbed in the ribs by her. (maybe she is getting used to the VMAX) Its been 3 weeks now since I havent wrenched on my VMAX.
My new project has been working very well with no problems what so ever. I am close to posting pictures of it. Just glad I havent had to work on it, weather has been in the mid 90's here in TN

 

[AEmedic]

I just did the exhaust mod. It is amazing what a couple of holes behind the end cap can do for the sound of the bike.
So far this is the only mod on the bike...

 

[one2dmax]

Started fabbing the exhaust on the 1500 last night. Got a long way to go and a short time to get there!

Sean

 

[mjsonar]

I added a windshield and bought a T-Bag that folds from big to small.

 

[4gasem]

Started fabbing the exhaust on the 1500 last night. Got a long way to go and a short time to get there!

Sean

Two weeks Sean! Don't let us down M8!

 

[Redbone]

I bolted on my painted side covers, radiator cover, hand polished scoops. I customized my radiator cover and had to figure out how to get it mounted(SS rivet nuts) but mounted it is. I should be able to pickup the rest of my body parts today and bolt those back on tonight. While the color did not turn out exactly as I wanted it to, it will have to do because it's the only thing left holding me back from riding.
This spring has sucked as far as work, truck repair bills, and other crap happening.:damn angry: But it should be behind me for the most part and I just want to feel my Vmax tearing up the U. P. roads once again! unk:

 

[KJShover]

Well, after cleaning the garage I got bored and started playing with my Ignition.

I got some decent detonation at curve 5, My particular setup responds well to curves 2 and 3. Curve 4 gave me a good midrange but started acting funny in the upper RPM like curve 5 was doing.

I'm leaving it at curve 3 for the street and when I use the squeeze when I go down south in a couple-three months I'll be using curve 7 or 8. I'll cross that bridge when I get to it then.

Curve three woke this thing up, it pulled strong all the way through my midrange and well into the upper end until I came up on the rev-limiter.

I also readjusted my shift lever lower to aid in more positive shifts. Looked at my new airshifter and a place to mount it. Dunno if I'm going to rebuild it or replace the clevis. My dipshit nephew put it outside when I was out of town and its in pretty pissy shape.

Ordered guage bling in the form of an oil pressure guage to complement a pressure switch. For those wondering the switch will shut off the bike if the oil pressure drops below a certain level. It will work indipendantly from the low oil light switch and wired inline with the oil pressure guage.

 

[4gasem]

Well, after cleaning the garage I got bored and started playing with my Ignition.

I got some decent detonation at curve 5, My particular setup responds well to curves 2 and 3. Curve 4 gave me a good midrange but started acting funny in the upper RPM like curve 5 was doing.

I'm leaving it at curve 3 for the street and when I use the squeeze when I go down south in a couple-three months I'll be using curve 7 or 8. I'll cross that bridge when I get to it then.

Curve three woke this thing up, it pulled strong all the way through my midrange and well into the upper end until I came up on the rev-limiter.

I also readjusted my shift lever lower to aid in more positive shifts. Looked at my new airshifter and a place to mount it. Dunno if I'm going to rebuild it or replace the clevis. My dipshit nephew put it outside when I was out of town and its in pretty pissy shape.

Ordered guage bling in the form of an oil pressure guage to complement a pressure switch. For those wondering the switch will shut off the bike if the oil pressure drops below a certain level. It will work indipendantly from the low oil light switch and wired inline with the oil pressure guage.

IMO a low level switch doesn't belong on a bike!!! I could see going into a sweeper and the bike loses oil pressure and shuts the bike off OR the switch fails and shuts the bike off for no reason... NOT GOOD!!!

You may want to think about that one KJ. Just a though.

Chris


I ordered an Exactrep rear sissy bar for my Max.

I will have to strip it all and get it painted flat black, but I like that it mounts with the stock grab bar and not the big one.

 

[Rusty McNeil]

Well, after cleaning the garage I got bored and started playing with my Ignition.

I got some decent detonation at curve 5, My particular setup responds well to curves 2 and 3. Curve 4 gave me a good midrange but started acting funny in the upper RPM like curve 5 was doing.

I'm leaving it at curve 3 for the street and when I use the squeeze when I go down south in a couple-three months I'll be using curve 7 or 8. I'll cross that bridge when I get to it then.

Curve three woke this thing up, it pulled strong all the way through my midrange and well into the upper end until I came up on the rev-limiter.

I also readjusted my shift lever lower to aid in more positive shifts. Looked at my new airshifter and a place to mount it. Dunno if I'm going to rebuild it or replace the clevis. My dipshit nephew put it outside when I was out of town and its in pretty pissy shape.

Ordered guage bling in the form of an oil pressure guage to complement a pressure switch. For those wondering the switch will shut off the bike if the oil pressure drops below a certain level. It will work indipendantly from the low oil light switch and wired inline with the oil pressure guage.

Something you might want to look at is the curve sheet from Dyna, it doesn't really jump out at you but;

The advance curves: 1 through 5 are not in order of highest advance, in order of advance they are 1, 2, 3, 5, 4

4 being more advance than 5

I called thier tech line and talked to them about it and they said it was not a misprint or typo; that it really is that way.

Mine runs best on 3, sometimes when I've run 104 at the strip I ran it at 5, but to be honest it really ran better on 93 octane and curve 3.


Oil pressure switch.

I did this once and got rid of it.

I used a 5 volt pressure sensor (expensive) and fed the signal into my Dynojet Wideband Commander and programmed it to throw me a warning light using an autometer shift light. The Wideband Commander has a programmable output that can be set up using any of the available inputs it's looking at.

I set it up to look at RPM's and Oil Pressure and programmed it to only throw a warning light when RPM's were over 3500 and oil pressure was less than 20psi

The pressure sensor required 3 AA batteries to power it since I couldn't find one that uses a 12 volt supply

It really turned out to be more trouble than it was worth. I ended up just using the RPM trigger to operate one of my shift lights and canned the sensor and all that crap.....

I considered a simple pressure switch but since the Vmax only makes 3-5psi at idle it created a barrier to setting it up for simple on off operation.

 

[KJShover]

IMO a low level switch doesn't belong on a bike!!! I could see going into a sweeper and the bike loses oil pressure and shuts the bike off OR the switch fails and shuts the bike off for no reason... NOT GOOD!!!

You may want to think about that one KJ. Just a though.

Chris

I've ran the setup before on one of my old drag bikes, it worked well. I'm going to hook it up to a toggle switch. So it can be turned on and off. You'll have to have it turned off to start the bike or keep cranking it until it builds pressure.

Its basically a drag racing safety switch. The roads are crap up here so there are no real twistys or sweepers in my section of earth. I'm going to wire it up to my N20 arming switch. So its on when the nitrous is armed. and off for everyday riding as I don't spray on the street. Too much traffic, potholes and critters, a 1500lb moose is hell on a bike :rofl_200:

But its still up in the air. I'm about done working on this thing. I think I'll call it quits after a notched swingarm, brake rotors and new wheels.

 

[KJShover]

Something you might want to look at is the curve sheet from Dyna, it doesn't really jump out at you but;

The advance curves: 1 through 5 are not in order of highest advance, in order of advance they are 1, 2, 3, 5, 4

4 being more advance than 5

I called thier tech line and talked to them about it and they said it was not a misprint or typo; that it really is that way.

Mine runs best on 3, sometimes when I've run 104 at the strip I ran it at 5, but to be honest it really ran better on 93 octane and curve 3.


Oil pressure switch.

I did this once and got rid of it.

I used a 5 volt pressure sensor (expensive) and fed the signal into my Dynojet Wideband Commander and programmed it to throw me a warning light using an autometer shift light. The Wideband Commander has a programmable output that can be set up using any of the available inputs it's looking at.

I set it up to look at RPM's and Oil Pressure and programmed it to only throw a warning light when RPM's were over 3500 and oil pressure was less than 20psi

The pressure sensor required 3 AA batteries to power it since I couldn't find one that uses a 12 volt supply

It really turned out to be more trouble than it was worth. I ended up just using the RPM trigger to operate one of my shift lights and canned the sensor and all that crap.....

I considered a simple pressure switch but since the Vmax only makes 3-5psi at idle it created a barrier to setting it up for simple on off operation.

Cool, I'm convinced. Pressure switch is out. I'm now just going to put moneys aside for my rotors, swingarm and wheels. unk:

 

[82ndCowboy]

It was actually Yesterday!
But I changed the oil and spark plugs. Did all the normal checks, bat, tire, pressure, swingarm nuts, rear differential oil, checked battery, and ran over Baby checking tightness and torque of all nuts and bolts I could see. Then I got to sync my carbs with my new Morgan Carbtune. It was a piece of cake and everything is running like a wet dream again.

 

[Redbone]

I rode my bike to work today in a very light rain. Nothing too bad, I thought that once I get there I can try out my new Nelson-Rigg 1/2 cover(uv-2000). Once I have it covered and safely in the office a coworker comes in, looks at my helmet, and says "you rode your bike in this rain?" I look outside and it is pouring down rain, so I take a look to make sure the cover is still on (it is). I check the forecast for the rest of the day and all it says is rain and more rain. At 5:00 it clears up, kinda spitting rain, and about 48 degrees. They cover works great and covers top 3/4's of the bike. Tires, pipes and from about mid case on down is all thats exposed.
I decide to go try out my Alpinestars Ridge waterproff boots. I made a quick ride home, put on the boots/rain pants then stopped over to see if my brother wants to go for a quick ride. He does and to my surprise, my nephew want to go too. They gear up and we head out. We ride for about a half a hour then my nephew gets hungry(what 13 Y.O. is not hungry!). Off we ride to a hamburger joint about 20 min away, have a burger, then take off for home. It's about a 30 min ride home, it's damp, 45 degrees now so it is kinda chilly, but nothing too real bad.
My feet stayed warm and dry, the tourmaster pants helped keep me a little warmer, Joe Rocket Sonic jacket kept me warm up top but I think I need some cold weather gloves. I was riding with just my regular gloves to start with, but had to put on some outer gloves that I used for quad riding for the last part of the ride. They are too bulky to use on a motorcycle as they have too much padding on the palm I think. The trip went for about 1 hr 45 min and we covered about 65 miles. I sure hope the weather warms up soon.

 

[one2dmax]

OK, getting closer to done. Got the exhaust done enough to test for now. I will be adding some crossovers later but time is running out.

Probably going to fire the beast this evening.

Sean

 

[maleko89]

Is that the wheel/tire you're using?

 

[4gasem]

Is that the wheel/tire you're using?

I was thinking the same thing! Should smoke pretty well...:biglaugh:

 

[Thevmaxrider]

Got a new front fender sold by NP Racing, bike is going in for paint Friday, hope to have it back together Sunday night just in time for Thunder. No more blue for this kid, goin old/new school muscle car with Dodge Copperhead orange w/flat black stripes. Then gonna order my seat from Sean after Thunder:biglaugh:

 

[one2dmax]

Not the tire I am using. I've got a 200/50/18 that is going on with an old Kosman 3 spoke wheel.

Sean