Well after coming home with my PM inbox about to blow up i figured instead of answering everyone i will post up a little "guide/how to" on what i did to adapt F4i fairings to my F3. This would also work on other years as well as most of them are close enough.

First off understand these are not directions on how to duplicate my bike but more of a guide of what i did to get it where it is at now. Also alot of this is basic fabrication which most should be able to do with a good bench vise, drill, and assorted nuts, bolts, washers, tape measure and a good eye. Id say a good eye is the most important part since alot of what i did was sit back and look at it over and over again. And BTW it is much better to do this all at "ride height" or basicly not like i did with the rear stand only. It looked perfect on the stand but once i took it off the front plastic sat to high and i had to remount it all.

Parts i purchased:
F4i upper fairing
F4i side fairings
F4i center "V" fairing
F4i Fairings stay ( 2 pieces)
F4i windscreen
F4i mirrors
F4i headlight
F4i ram air covers
F4i guages
F4i bolt assortment from ebay

First thing i did was get all the F3 fairings stripped off the bike along with the fairing stay and anything else i didn't plan on reusing. Then i took the upper fairing and both side fairings and bolted them together. I also took the fairing stay and bolted it to the upper fairing where the mirrors bolt in using some random bolts and large washers so the holes werent damaged. After all was together i sat it on the bike ( you'll need a hand for this part as the fairings all flop around and you can break them). Once on the bike i started moving it around till things started lining up, like the stator cover and keeping it straight with the fairing stay mount. I used zipties to hang the plastic on the bike in the position i liked best. once i was happy with how the plastics sat on the bike i first made the bracket to adapt the F4i fairing stay to the F3's stay mount.




This is the first bracket i made to adapt the fairing stay. I had to remake it to lower the fairings down 1.5" since it made the front sit to high once i lower it off the stand. all the bracket is, is 2 pieces of 1/8 aluminum stock about 2" wide


After the stay was all mounted up and solid i began looking at how to affix the rest of the plastic. I was going to make mounts for where the stock holes where but that wouls have taken too long, so i made my own. I used some 1/8' aluminum about an inch wide and bent it at 90deg to make a tab which i mounted on the upper motor mount bolt. Then i located it on the fairing, drilled a hole in the plastic and lined it up on the aluminum, marked, drilled and tapped it.

 

only thing left was to mount the rear most part of the fairings. this takes a little cutting and some good ol eyeballing. i can't give any direction on this part but hold it where it looks right and start cutting a little at a time untill it fits right and up can moun it to the bike. I used the F3's mounting holes for the rear two bolts. the rest of the F4i's holes i filled when i paint the bike.


this is the final product after cutting


I didn't get ram air covers untill i was done with the bike ( couldn't find any cheap). to make them work i sat them on the bike in the general location they went, grabbed a sharpie and eye balled the best way to cut them and somewhat match the lines of my tank. its pretty easy to see once you set them up there.


and once done it went front this


to this

 

well that is about it for the front fairings. It took me about 3 hours total to complete this and wire up my guages. For info on wiring the guages see the tutorial section at CBRWorld.net. There are a couple guys floating around here and Cbrworld that used their stock guages and made them fit. I didn't want to bother since i didn't like them anyway.

Many people have asked how much money would the parts cost to do this and well i can't say. I got my fairings cheap (200 shipped) because they were busted up and rashed. I had to put alot of work into them to get them usable. I have seen fairings for 150-500 so its all on how long you wait and look to get cheap parts. I went to every sportbike forum i could find and looked all through the forsale ads for parts. I have less than 500 in the entire front section of the bike. some could get cheaper and others could be 1500 or more

The tail section is a hole different animal. way too much fab work to make a guide so attempt that at your own risk.

 

thanks for the info demented!!! if i happen to stumble across some money, and i somehow gain enlightenment and have more patience than i normally do, i would LOVE to do something like this to my f3[8D]

 

Nice post, Great job too. I'm glad to see some ingenuity. I hate when people put some flush mounts and some rim tape and call it "custom."
I do however have a winter project for you. take your tank and have the area just above the tail and just above the frame rails and get them filled in and smoothed out. I think that would really finish it out. It would make it look like the tank belonged with that bodywork. I had the same problem with my tank but I made some fiberglass peices to fill in the area from the tail to the lowers.

 

Don't know if this worked, but I circled the areas I'm talking about. Also, If you have alot of extra time, Thant frame would look awsome powdercaoted black. jm2c

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wered you get that steering damper ? i cant seem to find one for a F3

 

I have part of the tank worked out already, the section by the filler pieces. the other part i can live with. as for the frame, all in due time. I finished this whole project in 5 days with body work on the fairings, paint work, and blasting the wheels and painting them. So i definently know i have some stuff to finish. Im working on an undertail also, so next season be read for the final product ( maybe) LOL Thanks guys

 

Its a secret for which i can't answer...............



LOL it was on there when i bought it.

 

Eh man, would you mind posting a pic of the f4i ram air covers. With attention to the cuts you made on them. I'm trying to figure out how to cut mine to fit right...

Thanks