Winter Project

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Update:
 
I have finished and filled the cooling system renewing all the rubber pipes to silcone jobbies as they were showing their age.
 
Following the fit of the YZF750 rear wheel I have had to take steps to sort out the rear caliper. 
It wouldn't be my bike if I didn't have any completely custom parts on it, I have had to make some new spacers on the right hand side so the caliper carrier sits square over the top of the rear disc. 
 
basically this is the problem:
 

 
now that the caliper carrier is slightly more inboard, the swing arm mounting point doesnt line up. 
 
So I did this:
 

 

 
 I am nowhere near competent enough to attempt a job like that with the potential consequences of it failing, so farmed it out to a welder fabricator mate. job looks really nice. 
 
In hindsight I could have also spaced the brake disc off the wheel, but I think this is a better more permanent solution. 
 
 
Now this is quite interesting (to me):
 
I thought I had mentioned that I had abandoned making the exhaust job as it wasn't coming together to the standard I wanted. all those welds so close together was causing a lot of heat distortion and it was looking like a bit of a frankenpipe. I managed to sell the TRX 42mm 2 into 2 system which gave me the funds to purchase that system from Greece off ebay. 
 
I have got talking to that guy that makes the exhausts, he makes loads of performance parts for the tdm. Over in Greece the TDM is extremely popular and they use them as entry level drag bikes, run them on methanol or turbo them.  
 
Was talking to him about my plans for throttle bodies, he was saying they don't give a lot on their own, but combined with other mods they release a reasonable amount of torque on the low mid range (unexpected) and a couple of extra ponies up top. That is perfect to me. I love the mid range punch the bike has and any beefing that up would be great. 
 
He was saying a good normally aspirated setup produces 95 to 110rwhp. 
I think the extra power is achieved by raising the rev limit. I am not chasing max power figures, I want solid reliability. I might knock the rev limit up 500rpm over stock, im sure my carrilo rods could handle that. 
 
he was saying what I will definitely need is one of his uprated billet clutch baskets - anyone had problems with them starting to fail? thinking about it my father in laws trx tdm900 hybrid had problems with a sticky clutch.