Animal

This is my new playtoy. It will probably be the death of me. If not in an accident - then in a heartattack.
I went for a testride and had to change my underpants when I got back. You don´t actually ride this - more like hang on, and hope to live and tell.
I´m gonna put it on the dynojet - just to know what sort of power comes out of this beast!
I estimate 120 Bhp for 200 kg weight.

This is based on a Suzuki GSXR 1100 from 1987 I think - have to check this.
Nice (homemade?) carbon fiber exhaust can. The sound is ... well ... let´s say it is not modest ... not at all.

Nice little decal on the gastank.
Riding position is nice and upright.

This bike has an almost identical swing arm (and linkage) as the one I am using in the Snake III project.

Typical for the streetfighter styling, this sort of headlight.

The dashboard is simple and functional.

The naked subframe ...

Removing some insulation tape revealed this. A perfect example of how *NOT* to do it.
I had suspected finding stuff like this - as the wiring seems to work - but only barely. To name a few things ... the brake light works even without the key in the ignition; The light switch is reversed (high beam/normal beam); cockpit lights don´t work; more connections on the battery than you want to know!

I plan to fix this - make a new custom wiring loom for this bike. Need to strip the bike further, and have a good close look at the schematics.

I cut open the wiring loom to check ...
I was not the first to open it up. This is someones idea of an electrical connection.
The wiring loom was not too bad - so I decided to reuse a lot of it.

The sidestand contact. The pins were bent over and touched each other. Not much use having this then, huh?
I scrapped it - the more gimmicks - the more potential sources for problems.
Keep it simple and keep it reliable!

The heavy wire from the starter relay to the startermotor. Totally schafed through to the wire. If u wanna see nice sparks, and even possibly see a bike go up in flames, then this is the way to go.
Needless to say - I repaired this thoroughly!

The NEAN relay. Took some figuring out - but this is the relay that controls the anti-dive of the front fork. It was just taped up a bit and hanging behind the fairing.
I am not decided yet if I´m gonna keep the NEAN anti-dive system - or scrap it. The fork felt ´jittery´ under heavy braking - I definately need to check this out, could have had to do with this.

The black box for the electronic ignition. It is loose in it´s protective casing. It apparantely worked ok - for now I´m just gonna secure it - but I might pour some 2 component stuff into the casing to secure it and make sure water cant enter. But first I have to check if this needs cooling or not.