{"id":36787,"date":"2020-11-21T21:01:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T12:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=36787"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:45:19","slug":"oil-cooled-gsx-r750-1100-early-model-conversion-fairing-plan-in-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20201121\/everyday-events\/oil-cooled-gsx-r750-1100-early-model-conversion-fairing-plan-in-progress","title":{"rendered":"Oil-cooled GSX-R750\/1100 early model conversion? Fairing plan? In progress…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We won’t forget about it.

Plans are uncertain and things rarely go smoothly\u2014that’s what I’ve been thinking lately.
There are so many ambulances around.

Tokyo is pretty scary; I feel it every day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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We’re going to attach the ears on the upper fairing stay.
You know, the bits for the mirrors and such.

Since we have a bender, bending is easy. Heating and bending by hand is a pain.

Don’t you think these bend easily if you drop the bike or lay it down, and then it’s a hassle to fix?
So the strategy is to make it removable.

And manufacturing becomes a bit easier and more flexible\u2014nothing but good things, I think. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I made a boss that attaches to the stay. I milled it so it fits the pipe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And that’s how it all came together. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If it’s weak, we reinforce it.
If it doesn’t work, we remake it. I love building things that don’t fail.
More to come! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We won’t forget about it. Plans are uncertain and things rarely go smoothly\u2014that’s what I’ve been thinking lately. There are so many ambulances around. Tokyo is pretty scary; I feel it every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-36787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-gr77c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}