fj1200 turbo "thug"

[backstreetheros]

I welded a boss for a fixing into the sump, I've got a pump assissed drain though as I feel my turbo is just slightly too low. I'd gravity feed yours back above the oil height, into the oil filler seems as good a place as any. You're not 'Falmouthgrove' by any chance are you, sold my sidewinder copy pipe to someone down your way a while back and I noticed a bid on my DYNA2000 from the same name? It's the long forks got me thinking.

i'm not falmouthgrove i'm sorry to say.
i already purchased my dyna 2000 from ebay.
what pump are you using as an oil scavenge pump? the brass gear pump i bought for mine is up for sale as useless to me now.


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If you order with USPS priority service you will have it in about 7 days.

If you still need that slave cylinder I have them in both colors, I can add the galley plug as well.

Do you know if you have the fine or course thread oil fill cap? If it is the fine one I have a cap that I removed from a customers engine years ago that has a 5/8" nipple pressed into it. I will throw that in the box as well.

Randy - RPM
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i'll make an order!.
i think mine is a fine thread, don't know what a corse looks like to compare?
definatly have a black slave cylinder as silver wouldnt look right.


i purchased the new oil line i need to take from the front tapping in the engine (yet to order) to the turbo.
i have decided to do this in AN-4 and not add an aditional oil cooler for the turbo seeing as i have that huge 16 row one on the engine anyway.

randy do you suggest i slightly overfill the oil to compensate for the oil in the bigger cooler and in the turbo or just make sure its at the top level?

[backstreetheros]

just placed my order for oil galley plug and a black slave cylinder. after ordering it... i thought... i dont have the bolts for the slave either...
dont suppose you have the bolts too randy? happy to pay for them. pm me and i'll make a balance transfer.
many thanks.

[Havoc]

Agree with Randy, the gallery blanks are made of monkey metal, you've made the correct choice. After consideration I do recall one snapping off the thread during the rebuild. I'm using an electric pump to scavenge the turbo, will be turned off separately a couple of seconds after shutting the motor down.

[backstreetheros]

just aswell do it properly...
once again i'm waiting on the postman haha. he says he hates me! i get at least 3 parcels a day and he doesnt like carrying them up my drive 
poor bloke.

i have realised i'm going to end up with a big space behind the engine seeing as i crammed everything upfront to make it all fit and now everything behind the engine i'm going to chuck out.
i'm sure something interesting will turn up to go in there!
might just have to be another ammo box so i can take a packed lunch for when it breaks down and the misses has to come and get me in the van!
one bonus of having big vans...

i confronted my MOT tester yesterday with a few questions as to having the bike with no lights...
for him to pass it he's said...
i need a reflector (i bought two of those small stick on ones that i will stick on the furthest rear of the frame)
a full size number plate.
an electric horn.

in answer to my questions...
i dont need a front mud guard.
i dont need any lights. front or back, indicators or even a brake light.
i dont need mirrors.
i dont need a chain guard.
i dont need a speedo.
and my exhaust is fine!
(aparantly a speedo and a mud guard is a legal requirement but not needed to pass an MOT?)
i'm not going to fit a mudguard anyway.

with regards to brake lights... i will fit one after the MOT test just for safety, but no other lights.

[backstreetheros]

got my oil line fittings in the post today to take a feed from the engine oil galley to the turbo
3 meters of hose so i dont come up short.
an-4 to 10 x 1.25 adapter to go into turbo oil feed
an-4 to 1/8 npt for randys oil galley plug.
two an-4 to hose 90 degree bends.



just waiting on my parcel from randy now...
the misses birthday today so i should really do something with her and not play with my bike... 

[dixiethedog]

I think ive sent you a PM,but just in case it hasnt worked and you need things relating to the 50 quid offer (egay)feel free to PM me.
This is still one of my fave FJ builds,along with Havoc's. The brits rule!!! lol.

[dixiethedog]

Can i quickly share a couple of pics to show you a bike being built by a good friend of mine,who was going turbo,but decided to just go normally aspirated.



This show's the brits make the craziest stuff when it comes to wacky stuff with FJ's.

[backstreetheros]

thats a real pretty frame!

just recieved my parcel from randy.
got my slave cylinder and oil connection for the turbo feed.
also a massive thanks to randy for the tapped oil cap and the spare bolt.
i'm very dissapointed to say this oil cap will not fit my fj... fuck!



i will have to have something made i think.

i went to fix someones central heating system yesterday who has had a lot of problems with it...
finally found the cure and fixed it to both of our delight.
he is a very avid motorcyclist and has 2 bikes he rides, one for his misses and one chopper he's building.
all of which have their own bedroom in his house!! a lovely chap and a damn good laugh.

the bike is a GSXR 750 slingshot motor in a Hard-Up-Choppers frame, USD forks, a real pretty bike.
after having a few words with him about his mid position valve being broken on his central heating system i bought the bike off him...
not that i really needed another project but it was too nice not to!
i'll get some pictures up soon.
this one will be a bit prettier than the fj as its already been booked in with a friend that ownes a paint shop to do a full candy/pearl white spray...

i could do with 2 weekends in a week if anyone can make that possible?? lol...

i've finished early today to get these turbo lines done but got a bit stuck without the cap! bugger...

[backstreetheros]

spent the last hour or so doing these bloody turbo lines...
all my remote oiling system for the turbo is now in the skip.
made up the new oil line to the turbo and was quite pleased with my efforts.
the braided hose and AN fittings almost looked too good to put on the thug.

was just about to fit this lovely hose when it fell apart in my hand... maybe i tightened it too much?!
obviously im not used to these limp wristed hose fitters fittings...


so i decided i'd give up after that as i don't have anymore AN fittings to fix it 
went to fit my clutch slave cylinder and was pleasantly confronted with another issue...
you can't fit a clutch slave cylinder without a engine side sprocket cover?!?!!!!
i wish i had taken the FJ apart in the first place to remove this donor engine.

hopefully i shouldnt have any of these problems with the GSXR chop.
the seat is already mounted, just needs springs (its has padding too!)
its got a propper electrics box under the seat with standard GSXR ignition.
the forks don't have any stupid antidive holes in them to cap off like the fjt
all the controls are finished as well as all brake lines bar one are done
it needs... wiring properly.
paint.
exhausts.
rear brake caliper tourque bar making.
a chain.
might go for another daytime MOT on it like the fjt
pictures soon.

[dixiethedog]

As a fellow HUC owner,I found the chain run,with std sized sprockets,allows the chain to hit the battery box. You cant use donor exhausts,as the front down tubes of the frame are badly positioned,and watch for them being very very low!! I know,as Ive 3!!! Im chopping the front downtubes out of mine,rebending some new tubes and welding them back in. Im using a Bandit frame as the template for the tubes. Its a bit of a bind,but it will give me a nicer exhaust fit. Ive just made some turbo headers for a HUC,and they had to be  extended out from the engine to make fit. They are cheap bases for a build,but i hate them now!!! lol.
I bought (as you know)a frame for an FJ12,and i bought a complete fj12 as a donor,but have had a change of heart. But good luck anyway! lol. Give me a shout if you need a window cover thing.

turbo huc

[Havoc]

Loads of covers on the bay. This is the cheapest

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/YAMAHA-FJ-1200-FRONT-SPROCKET-COVER-/190752387921?pt=UK_Motorcycle_Parts&hash=item2c69ba7351

Havoc

[backstreetheros]

nice to hear from another HUC owner!
i've already spotted the standard exhaust issue... im either going to buy a set of headers on ebay and chop them about, being stainless... my local xar tuning place will have to do it.
or... just buy HUC's exhausts for £320 delivered... job done.

i've just bought a sprocket cover on ebay so will do the clutch when that arrives... anyone know what thread pitch the slave cylinder banjos are? im short of one.

also anyone selling anti-dive blanking plates contact me!!

still not done anymore on the fj as the oil line screwed me right up, i might just drill a hole in my oil cap and press a tail in it for the return line.

my HUC doesnt have a battery box fitted yet. i was going to mount one on the right hand side of the frame and use it as a bracket to hold the rear brake resivoir.
no turbos on this one i think. i'm quite keen on the wrapped exhausts look too so might have a go at that.

[backstreetheros]

right progress...
i managed to get the AN oil line fitting from hosefittingsUK on ebay, and finished that oil line.
i pressed the pipe tail out of the aluminum oil cap randy sent me (cheers again) and machined out my resin one so it would fit snugly in there...
after about 10 trial fitments (i could almost push it all the way through by hand) and i decided to press it in there... using locktite as lubricant.
my resin plug shattered as i obviously didnt machine enough out! bugger. (i've had alot of "bugger" moments on this build!)
now i need to find an aluminum course thread oil cap to set to work on...

i've ordered the front sprocket cover for the fjt.
i have been looking for ideas for speedos and i've spotted this...




where would i get two of these? just aswell have one on the fjt and the gsxr!
i'd prefer to stay away from the streetfighter style vapor ones.

not that anyone on here is interested, i bought a set of GSXR headers to go on my GSXR chop but they will need chopping about all over the place to make fit the low slung frame, luckily i know a lad that works in a car modifying place opposite my local plumbers merchants! he's going to give me a price for the whole job then i can leave the bike there so i dont have two choppers taking up all my space. the GSXR chop is already booked into the paint shop at the end of december so i better hurry up and get all the welding done on the frame! (candy and pearl white frame, tank and rear mudguard should be pretty!)

i've also ordered a boost pressure switch for the fjt that is normally open circuit. i had to special order this from Wizards-of-nos as i couldnt find it anywhere else. i will use this to trigger the ignition retard from my dyna 2000 ignition. and luckily... the brass 42mm-42mm-1/2bsp "T"  i used for the dump valve happens to be 1/2"bsp thread inside, so i can thread a T into it and have the dump valve and the boost pressure switch (which is male 1/8bsp) in the same place. nice job 

once i get these faffy bits done i will have to mount my fuel pump properly and run all the fuel lines.
then i've got a whole lot of wiring to do.
i've bought some small aftermarket ignition switches for both bikes so they can have keys ( a bit safer )

getting a bit stressed with running a plumbing business, building a turbo chopper,building a GSXR chopper, restoring and modifying a mercury outboard and having a misses all at once! 

i palmed my outboard off on my painter and told him to take a few months to repaint it all (keeps it out of my way for a few months!)
once the GSXR frame is complete that can go to him too so one less thing to worry about...
the misses... unfortunatly i can only send her to the salon 

[backstreetheros]

this is how i did the oil plug...



i used some plumbing fittings and a vice to press out the tail from the aluminum oil cap.




this is what it should have looked like...



and this is what it actually looks like...



"bugger"

[dixiethedog]

I forgot to mention i think,i made the turbo headers for the turbo huc. Ive still got the welding jig for them too.