Project Hanz-Rod

Hi ho.

This blog is created to share the modification process on my ´93 Honda CBR 900RR fireblade, this year 2010.

As a newbie and one with no experience at all in customizing motorcycles I took many photos to memorize as much as possible for the assemble process. During this project I searched a lot for a website or blog holding similar project that might have saved me some time. Now after the bike is finished I still have all the photos and thought it might be helpful to someone having them accessible on the web.

Hans Alan

So this is the bike before, right before I started.

...and as you can see, here I´v started the project :)

In this case the former owner placed an electrical gear-switch in the bike so the camera was very handy here :)

Here I´v removed most of the brake system and after removed every single thing related to it, I stored it all at the same place. It fallows many small necessary things that is very important that do not get lost - unless brakes are something that don't fit your riding style, well then just give it to the trash :)

The motor was very dirty and to avoid the dirt would get inside it I had to spent a valuable time closing every hole perfectly, cause it´s almost impossible to clean without some liquid flow that you don´t want inside the motor.

Working long times on something that´s laying on the floor is very quick to be come a pain in the ass, so I moved it to a better working environment, a good table is acceptable.

After many hours of cleaning I took the valve cover off to be sure I would not have to replace the sims, tighten the chain or any thing - all was perfect here. (you can find a decent sim-set on e-bay)

The "IN" and "EX" marks are suppose to fit in the middle horizontal line, you might have to adjust tho motor to see if it´s correct - I totally recommend it, otherwise the motor is not running correctly ugh .. ;)

Here is the motor painted, obviously heh. Cause it is an aluminum case there is no primer that is made for it to stand this kind of heat. One way is powder-coding the motor, but to me it is to messy and risky process for the "heart" of the bike so I bought a paint that is made for fireplaces that has a head-resistance up to 650°c ..or 1200 f, and made sure to remove all the oil and fat of the surface before applying it.

On the rear swingarm I vent for sort of "stone-varnish..?" it´s a tar-mix spray that is good in this case for that reason it slowly leaks over any nicks and scratches that comes on its surface - in much heat it can get a bit sticky so it´s not good for the whole bike heh

I also painted the frame with heat-resistant paint, different type than the one I put on the motor - just for the slight of color difference ;)

Here you can see the "brake-fluid mud" that I found when I was doing the "anal-cleaning" of the brake system. 80% oil-free alcohol works well on a dirt like that.

The wheels back from the powder coding process - they came back so messy that I had to spent 4 hours cleaning the brake-disk seats and all the bearings was soaked in code so all of them had to be replaced. I was very thankful for not taking the motor to that place :D

New bearings in front and rear wheel.