Let’s install the Yoshimura Step KIT.
It’s got kind of a gold tone to it—the industry sure is trend-conscious!
We’ll cut it roughly. I’m an air saw person—I really hate grinders because they’re so dusty.
Are you using masking tape? We’ll tape it up nicely.
I won’t use a belt sander either. There’s a handy tool that works like shaving—it cuts smoothly and cleanly.
The customer wants direct mounting instead of the Yoshimura Step KIT’s clamp attachment.
Yeah, that makes sense. That clamp really isn’t great. For a bolt-on kit, it requires cutting and has some awkward design choices.
We’ll keep it as simple, light, and strong as possible with this shape. Fabrication and welding aren’t our main business—you’ll get a cleaner, sharper finish if you have a custom shop do it.
That’s fixed it.
Now the muffler won’t fit, so we’ll fabricate a muffler bracket.
This is actually version 1, and while there’s hardly any difference, we’re now on version 2. The master forgot that the master cylinder mounts on the back of the bracket…
We’ll remove the rear master rod and clean it up while we’re at it.
Perfect!
The fluid hose layout is outside the frame. It doesn’t look great, so we’ll do a little modification.
I really wanted to route it to the side, but we can’t remove any more material, so this is the limit.
But it looks much cleaner now.
We’ll also need to make an adapter for the fluid hose, and there are lots of small details beyond what I’m writing about here.
