Maintenance & Technical > KX500 Aluminum Frame Conversion (AFC)
'09 500AF build
bloudin:
This build it beautiful, however what are the chances of you being able to copy the mechanical drawings of the yoke and mounts so i can send them to my friend who has a CNC machine? I can send a big thumb drive if that works. I know you have put a lot of time into the project and i would be willing to send some Cheddar with the thumb drive. Thanks for you time and this bike will decimate all!
jBernard:
--- Quote from: bloudin on October 28, 2015, 07:49:18 AM ---This build it beautiful, however what are the chances of you being able to copy the mechanical drawings of the yoke and mounts so i can send them to my friend who has a CNC machine? I can send a big thumb drive if that works. I know you have put a lot of time into the project and i would be willing to send some Cheddar with the thumb drive. Thanks for you time and this bike will decimate all!
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Bloudin,
Thanks for the kind words, greatly appreciated!
In regards to the files, i'm kind of on the fence about that as you could imagine.
There's a guy on ebay selling yoke and frame kits that are already made, so letting go of those raw files where someone could pretty easily sell my design, even though its not rocket science in the slightest, would be a bit hard for me to let happen.
On the upside, I'm sending these new rail designs off shortly to get made up, and since I designed the yoke a while back, I've had a number of people ask me if I had any more made up as they would like to purchase some. I will probably make up around 5+ sets of yoke and rails available to people coming up soon. If that interest you at all. Let me know what you think.
Thanks again
Taylor
jBernard:
Hey guys,
Sat down in some free time I finally had and made some revisions to all the designs of the HPSD mount, rear brembo adapter, frame rails, and yoke.
GOOD NEWS though. I've had numerous people reach out and want me to make them a Yoke, rails, or other things. And its just real hard to get one single part machined up, but I'm planning on running a set of the yokes, as well as the rail system, so people can use this method and save a lot of time hopefully! So stay tuned on that, and feel free to post in here, or shoot me a PM if its something that you'd be interested in, and I can take down your email and hit you up when things start getting close to in my hands!
Here are some revised parts.
I added a few more visual changes to the yoke, so it wasn't so 'blocky' on the front side, as well as trim off some un-needed material to give me area to get a nice weld seam to the frame to.
I revised the rear master cylinder mount, so I could use button head bolts instead of hex head, this will alloy me to mount the adapter flush with the side of the frame (like stock) yet recess the bolt heads (not like stock) so they don't wear your boots out and wear over time which in turn makes them easy to strip.
Revised the HPSD, added a nicer looking fillet to the top so it wasn't so blocky as well.
Well, I ran some diagnosis tools, and a SOLID billet rail system is slightly heaver than tubing, to say the least. Since I'm wanting to shave weight on this bike, I spent a lot of time putting in some weight relief pockets in the rail system, while still having .500" wall thickness at any given area, and having no square corners for better stress distribution. Added a little meat around the engine mount areas as well, so I didnt have to worry about welding around the pockets.
Same idea on the bottom offset adapter, took out the middle relief pocket so all the weld seam would be attached to solid billet and be easier to weld.
Really excited to have these in the works now. Should be finalizing manufacturing here within the next day or so, and then have a week or so of downtime in getting them made, then once in hand this bike will start looking like a bike again. This time, a bit better engineered!
jBernard:
Hey guys, quick update!
Got my front brake master cylinder back in from Cerakote'ing.
Looks pretty awesome! Its a nice thin finish like anodizing, so it came real close to matching the brembo clutch master.
I wish i could have afforded a real Brembo factory front brake master, but they are like 700$+ and I think brembo sxs caliper + 280mm tsunami galfer rotor is going to be WAY overkill for me in the braking department.
and color i was trying to match:
Also dont know if I posted pictures of the tank i got to fit up with a bit of persuasion. Its a '14 KX450f tank, had to modify the tail end of it, as it didn't clear the frame spar, but will easily be able to be filled in and get a nice solid mold from this.
The Acerebis Flo Green plastic kit (12-15 kxf) fits up perfect to it and surprisingly to the stock mount point behind the radiator on the frame. Got a nice year upgrade for very little work, now it looks like a '15!
Note:
I'm about to pull the trigger on getting the newly revised yoke and frame rails CNC'd. I'm contemplating getting 5 sets made as some people have spoken out they'd like a kit.
I haven't set a price in stone yet, but the only other kit out there is that CP conversion guy for the CR's only and his is 310$ just for the yoke and some crappy engine mounts. Pricing wise, mine would be considerably a better deal figuring its a CNC billet yoke AND rail system.
It would be a decent amount of cash out of pocket for me, so please let me know if you'd be interested in a kit ASAP!
Please shoot me a PM or email me at:
txfrc0 +AT+ gmail dot com (replace the +AT+ with an @)
more updates soon!
Thanks
Taylor
Foxx4Beaver:
lookin great, as usual! 8-)
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