Will get a look at the seat subframe tomorrow--having it welded in the late hours before I split the country. New gauge cluster should be done this week, too. Hopefully it all comes out well...if not, it was a cheap experiment.
Chumma was recently through India and was kind enough to drop by my place. Gave me a lot of stuff to think about.
Here's what I'm shooting for after the rebuild:
Engine/drivetrain:-Fireball package on a 2002 engine with the coated chamber and piston, barrel cryo'd. Magnum cams/TM32 carb per spec.
-Newby belt primary
-5spd right-shift transmission
-Spin-on oil filter, oil plumbing either Chumma's standard copper tubing, or possibly with braided stainless hose. (flexible, which I equate to durable in this application.)
-Stock header chopped to 32" with the cheap Emgo megaphone on it. Dreamed of stainless custom, but this'll do for now and still look awesome. Plus I can glass-pack the crap out of it to try and keep it from deafening me.
Suspension:-Fork cartridge emulators from YSS
-Rear Hagons with adjustable damping (310mm)
Electrics:-Upgraded alternator
-Boyer micro-digital ignition and powerbox R/R
-Home-built wiring harness
-Halogen lamp (ditching the current cheap Chinese HID experiment), probably a 5 3/4 Bates-style bottom-mount bucket supported by a bracket on the lower crown
-Dual LED rear tail lights and LED gauge lamps
Chassis:-Frame sent for alignment
-Seat/tail: alloy unit I had custom-made, mounted to sub-frame with electrics and storage tray underneath. Seat removable via quarter-turn dzus fastener to access tray.
-Rear-set pegs moved forward an inch and a half or so, with clean mounts to replace the bodged-up mess on there now.
-Excel alloy rims (probably valenced, but the jury's still out; maybe just the dimpled standard rim) WM2 front, WM3 rear with stainless swaged spokes. K70 tires.
-Front disc
-Possibly: disc brake tab welded to swingarm, derived from the Indian disc brake rear kit, with bosses for the slave and master cylinder. (Both to make my rear brake more usable with my rearsets and to make user-level maintenance easier...I can rebuild a caliper, but not cut a drum or arc pads.)
-Also possible: tapered head bearings in custom-machined cups
Controls:-"Thunderbird" triple trees (as I have now, eliminating casquette)
-Dirt-trackish bars, probably
Emgo "Magna Wide" in chrome-Motion pro "turbo"
throttle.
-Low-profile bar switches from
Highwaydirtbikes for hi-lo, kill, and horn.
-Main light on/off via toggle switch in gauge cluster.