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fitscott wrote: Have you had a chance to sort out your carbs and get out for a ride yet?

Well I got them all cleaned. Then I decided to purchase a set of K&N filters that notaduc had for sale here. He bought oversized filters an made some slick delrin velocity stacks that adapt the larger filters to the Mikuni carb throats. I have to open the counterbore a bit on the velocity stacks to fit the 29's. I got two of them done an then had to go to Connecticut for three weeks. Once I get caught up on honey-dos and fishing trips I'll get them finished and back on the bike.

Ok, I got back at it today for a little while. Carbs re-assembled with Notaduc's velocity stacks and K&N filters fitted.

Now with the carbs cleaned out the bike starts right up again. I went for a little spin around the neighborhood. Then I decided to start looking at the heel guards that I always wanted to cut down, but never did. Here are the stock heel guards:

Now here is my first idea about cutting them down. I traced the stockers on a piece of cardboard, and then sketched a few different ideas on there. Here is what I decided to try out. I had some silver paint in the garage so I sprayed them to get the full effect. What do you guys think?

Those look really nice, and a lot better than the stock slabs. Of course, your whole bike is awesome.

Alan

Looks good, I say go for it! Nice bike!

gotta love those cardboard templates.definitely cleaner looking than the stock piece.plus look at all the weight you shaved.me likey

i like the way the right side has the lines going at the same angle as the fins on the engine.

make the left side lines go the same and they would be perfect ,in my mind anyways !!!

thats my .02,

leon

531blackbanshee wrote: i like the way the right side has the lines going at the same angle as the fins on the engine.

make the left side lines go the same and they would be perfect ,in my mind anyways !!!

thats my .02,

leon

Good call. I made the left side first and I actually had the lines on the left side lined up with the top line of the rearset. That didn't work on the right side so I did what I did. Maybe I'll try another template with this idea.

Nice to see you back at it!!

Your rearsets look like the stock ones off of my old 05 zx6.

And the heel guards look a lot like the sato racing rearsets that I had on it too.

I really like what you're going for with your templates, And making them certainly beats buying the insanely expensive racing ones