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What year 999 front fairing is adaptable to S4RS

Started by DucRS, January 21, 2009, 08:47:05 PM

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DucRS

Looking to replace my OEM front fairing with the 999 front fairing and I was curios about what year would work, and does it take a lot of modifying to install.
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Quote from: DucRS on January 21, 2009, 08:47:05 PM
Looking to replace my OEM front fairing with the 999 front fairing and I was curios about what year would work, and does it take a lot of modifying to install.

Take your wheel off, remove the stock fairing, place it on ebay, install the new one and go for a ride.  [thumbsup]

Capo



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Raux

why not just get a 999, take off the side fairings, put handle bars instead of clipons and ... wait. that's a Streetfighter.

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Quote from: Capo on January 22, 2009, 11:29:08 AM
You would need extensive bracket work

What? [roll]  It's plug and play. I did to mine..

damianS4RS

Fairing or fender? Fender is pug and play. Icon's is a sick example. [thumbsup]

DucatiBastard

Quote from: Icon on January 22, 2009, 11:18:31 AM
Take your wheel off, remove the stock fairing, place it on ebay, install the new one and go for a ride.  [thumbsup]

yeah, fairing or fender?  And why remove the wheel to take off the fender Icon?
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Quote from: DucatiBastard on January 22, 2009, 08:51:01 PM
yeah, fairing or fender?  And why remove the wheel to take off the fender Icon?

From what I recall, you need as much room as you can sliding the new fender through the forks. It's pretty thick Carbon and will not bend. If the S4RS fender did not have the rear part that attaches to the Brake, then yes it would slide right in.  Once your there, you'll see.

Capo

The Olins fender (as fitted to the S4Rs), is much more difficult to remove that the Showa fender


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mikecu

You can get the front mudguard off an S4rs without removing the wheel. I know this because I have done it. I only attempted it because I read a previous post explaining how it was done. It is a bit of a squeeze and you need to mask your wheel as there will come a point where the carbon guard is mighty tight and therefore likely to scratch your paint. I replaced my front guard with a 999 version from Casoli and it looks much sharper and is also finished to a much higher standard than standard! If I could only manage to get some photos uploaded I could show you but I have consistently failed in my attempts to do so, so you will just have to take my word for it.

dbran1949

Quote from: mikecu on January 26, 2009, 11:34:25 AM
If I could only manage to get some photos uploaded I could show you but I have consistently failed in my attempts to do so, so you will just have to take my word for it.

Can you upload the photos to any sites like Flikr or Google Picassa? I am trying to determine if your problem is just getting them to appear here or just in general can't upload photos.

Bill in OKC

Quote from: Icon on January 23, 2009, 08:43:56 AM
From what I recall, you need as much room as you can sliding the new fender through the forks. It's pretty thick Carbon and will not bend. If the S4RS fender did not have the rear part that attaches to the Brake, then yes it would slide right in.  Once your there, you'll see.

I *tried* to get my fender off while the wheel was still on but gave up.  I was afraid it was getting bent too much and I didn't want to damage anything.  It is some thick CF.
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Quote from: Bill in OKC on January 26, 2009, 04:52:08 PM
I *tried* to get my fender off while the wheel was still on but gave up.  I was afraid it was getting bent too much and I didn't want to damage anything.  It is some thick CF.

Yup, me too. I gave up and dropped the F-bomb. I thought it was a drop in part. Nope.

mikecu

I have managed to upload some pictures to photobucket but I can't seem to get them to come across. You have to understand that I am fairly incompetent with modern technology - perhaps this is why I like Monsters! Any suggestions on how to make my photos leap across cyberspace would be gratefully accepted. I have tried following the site's instructions but to no avail...

dbran1949

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Quote from: mikecu on January 27, 2009, 11:23:45 AM
I have managed to upload some pictures to photobucket but I can't seem to get them to come across. You have to understand that I am fairly incompetent with modern technology - perhaps this is why I like Monsters! Any suggestions on how to make my photos leap across cyberspace would be gratefully accepted. I have tried following the site's instructions but to no avail...

Can you copy and paste the link from photo bucket into a post? then I can show you how to imbed the photo. Make sure you set the phot bucket album so that it is viewable without password

for instance the full link from photo bucket looks like this (note: I added an extra space just after the http: so that the browser would not display them as a link)

<a href="http: //s703.photobucket.com/albums/ww39/dbran1949/?action=view&current=IMG00039markedUp.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http: //i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww39/dbran1949/IMG00039markedUp.jpg" border="0" alt="Termignoni db"></a>

but you only want to put this part
http: //i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww39/dbran1949/IMG00039markedUp.jpg

between the [ img ][ /img ] tags

which gives you this