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Project Opossum is under way!
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PostPosted: June 10, 2008, 3:46 am    Post subject: Project Opossum is under way!
Ok I'm in the begining stages of this so I will post progress pictures as I go. By the way. The bike isn't going to be red, I just wanted to get some color on it. Let me kow what yall think. As I'm saving the money to get it running good I'll be doing all the other stuff. The plan is to have the forward controls built and on the bike, the dent in the tank fixed, the rear fender & taillight mounted, and I'm going to take about half of the foam out of the seat by next Sunday. Hopefully I'll have it painted the way I want it by Sunday also. If I get anything else accomplished, that'll be extra, lol. Then I want to lower it. I'm planning on getting that kit from JC Whitney and some shorter shocks. I would like to get it around 4"-4.5" lower, so if the lowering kit is 2.5" then I would need about 11"-11.5" shocks, right?

If anyone has any ideas about the shocks let me know. There's a Honda dealer, a Harley dealer, and an all metric dealer located close to me, if that helps.

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Jamey

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PostPosted: June 10, 2008, 6:14 am    Post subject: Re: Project Opossum is under way!
eBay has a set of 11" being sold by TAS out of Indiana.
I'm pleased with mine. Do a search on eBay using this heading...

Yamaha XS650 Chrome Short Shocks XS 650 Cafe Racer

This is all the lowering that I needed.
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PostPosted: June 10, 2008, 6:37 am    Post subject: Re: Project Opossum is under way!
You can get those chain adjusterds and maybee springs polished up prety good beleivi it or not.
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PostPosted: June 20, 2008, 9:37 pm    Post subject: Re: Project Opossum is under way!
savage or rebel shocks are 10.5, 10 on lowest setting
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PostPosted: June 21, 2008, 1:33 pm    Post subject: Re: Project Opossum is under way!
NateDogg wrote:
savage or rebel shocks are 10.5, 10 on lowest setting

So both of those will bolt right up?
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PostPosted: June 22, 2008, 1:00 am    Post subject: Re: Project Opossum is under way!
I'm not trying to be an asshole but that seat has to go, otherwise that bikes got potential
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PostPosted: June 22, 2008, 3:43 am    Post subject: Re: Project Opossum is under way!
Ga, what an asshole! No, I'm just messing. I don't like the seat either. It's too...bulky...maybe. I don't know, I don't like it though. It does feel nice to my ass. It's all soft and stuff, lol.
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