Reverse Trike

[Thug]

Bloody awesome mate!

 

[cruppelt]

Absolutely Uebercool! Can't wait to see it with the panels on.

 

[Nitrotate]

Ok got all the controls mounted back in and wiring harness hooked up, battery installed etc. etc. Got it started again, headlights on and cables all run and mounted down.

The past week I got the subframe powder coated and hand built a little sheetmetal cover for the rear right over the top of the taillights. Turned out pretty nice for someone with zero sheetmetal forming work experience...!

I also cut all the bulky plastic under the tail out and cleaned it up with sheetmetal also and powder coated it.

Here's the cool part, I didn't expect these to turn out as perfect as they did because I've never cut pipes down before but these were regular chrome yoshimura RS3 pipes and I cut them shorter so they wouldn't hang out past the rear and then cut the baffles out so they sound AMAZING now, nice and deep throaty sound. Then coated them all the way to the headers with high temp flat black. Wrapped them with the rivet trim pieces coated in white and then the end cap in candy red!

Here they are mounted:

Here it is with the wing mounted back on. Everything is solid as a rock now, I can grab the wing or the pipes individually and shake the entire trike back and forth!

 

[Auburn]

Very nice! Can't wait to see it all completed. :clapping:

 

[Nitrotate]

Thanks I can't wait to see it also!! :yahoo:

 

[Nitrotate]

Just a quick update. I've been making a lot of progress lately but it's mostly little stuff not worth taking pictures of. Still a little slower than I would like but that's mainly because of all this freezing weather and snow!!

Anyway, I did get the right side air scoop and radiator finished up and painted. Also just ordered the new tire for the back. Because of the slight tendency to oversteer I decided to set the front suspension up pretty stiff, the rear suspension super soft and then the rear tire I ordered is a higher performance and stickier tire than the front ones are. So with this setup I'm hoping it helps to grip the road real tight and have much less chance of oversteering.

Sorry the lighting was a little weird;

 

[rogdeb]

looking goooooood

 

[Nitrotate]

Nice weather this weekend so I got quite a bit done. I finally got some paneling done for the rear so it's not just wide open like it was before. I could have done a better job if I was a sheet metal guy and had all the right tools but I think it came out pretty nice after powder coating. I should have the new tire on the rim and reinstalled by this weekend!

Here is where the air intake tube connects

 

[Nitrotate]

Woohoo FINALLY got the rear tire, got it mounted and balanced and back on the bike. So she's back on all 3 feet again.

Mounted one of the side blinkers and finished wiring up the tail lights and the extra brake light up on the wing.

I felt like doing a really short video update of the tire and rear lights so here it is:

 

[Bugnatr]

Thanks for the updates, it's fun to see your quality work. Looking good, really like the FJR"T"!

 

[Nitrotate]

Thanks! I'm getting extremely anxious because I'm soooooo close to being done yet there's still a lot of tedious and detailed work to be done. :dribble:

 

[Nitrotate]

Ok big update! Got a lot done the past week or so. I'm guessing I am only about 3 weeks to a month away from being registered and road legal!!!!!!!!!

I used to work in auto upholstery so I pulled the covers off the seats and got some new covers made and reinstalled about a week or two ago. Looks WAY better than the old crappy purplish ones huh?!

This weekend I got a TON of stuff done.

I got the driver's side panel, seat and harness mounted. I finished the bodywork, painted and mounted the driver's side intake scoop and the radiator with fan. Mounted it all up and filled the coolant system. The air intake tube is not necessary but I figured it would be nice to force a little extra air into the bike anyway.

I built the dash panel from sheet metal and powder coated it. Mounted all the switches and gauges and wired everything up. I wired a switch for the two cooling fans along with another switch for the backup camera monitor and a 12v accessory outlet.

Backup Camera; I did this because even with the mirrors mounted and I can see behind me it's still a bit difficult to turn and look over my shoulder because of the harness seatbelts. I mounted the camera on the rollbar instead of the rear of the bike because it gave me a WAY wider view of my blind spots that way and I can still see straight behind me fairly well through the tail wing.

I mounted some red accent lighting in front of the dash at your feet. You can sort of see it turned on in these pics along with the backup monitor.

 

[wfooshee]

So is the backup monitor reversed, so you behave as if it's a mirror, or do you have to remember to do everything backwards while looking in it?

 

[Nitrotate]

It's reversed so that it works like a mirror.

 

[wfooshee]

Good. Now I don't have to worry about you driving into the side of the house as you back out of the garage.

 

[Nitrotate]

Haha, no my sister took care of that little incident when she was 16...

 

[Nitrotate]

Made a bunch more progress this weekend. Got the front cover put on, tightened up all the nuts and bolts, mounted passenger seat, mounted front running lights, ran the blinker wires, and built the skeleton for the rear tarp.

If you look close you can see the skeleton I fabbed up yesterday. Tonight I'll be figuring out how I'm going to stretch some vinyl over it to hide all the wiring etc.

More updates to come....

 

[HotRodZilla]

Dayum man...You're frigging talented. That's very cool...As said many times before, I can't wait to see it finished.

 

[Nitrotate]

Thanks for the complements!

Quick and small update. Got the vinyl cover pretty much done for behind the seats. It looks pretty decent and will help hide ugly wires and keep any rain off also.

 

[rogdeb]

Yeahhhhh !! :yahoo: Looks really cool.