New Thundercat in the works!

And so it begins!




As you can see I have a frame, swing arm, front calipers (need rebuilding), rear caliper (needs rebuilding) and clutch cable.

The R6 5EB shock would require some major modification to fit the T'cat so that will be getting sold with the linkage to fund a replacement.


Raymond

Good start for a good price.

Good luck and enjoy.

Rosco

That is a good price, I sold a swingarm for £30 last year so the whole frame and swingarm for that is fantastic (as long as you got v5 with it)

Take the opportunity to upgrade rear shock to r6 and think about gearing also.

Interesting idea that.

Thanks guy's, I need something to work on so I don't mess up my current T'cat

I got the Frame, Swingarm, suspension linkage, number plate and a full HPI check (it's clean) for £30. I only have to apply for a new log book.

Looks like fun, are you gonna build it standard or are you planning something unique?

dudeofrude wrote:Looks like fun, are you gonna build it standard or are you planning something unique?

Building it for the missus but I'm tempted to test out the R6 5EB shock and link that I have to see if I can make it work, but other than that I'll keep it as standard as can be But my T'cat is getting some nice upgrades in the process

Do you need the black plastic tray that hold the battery and everything under the seat?

At the moment yes but I will put a list up tomorrow in a new thread once I've sorted myself out.

Updated the main post etc etc.

Its like one of those 'Build a sailing ship' magazines, when you get a part a week!

The D'Agostini Thundercat?

Wooster wrote:

The D'Agostini Thundercat?

I read that as D'Agnostic Thundercat.
You gotta see it to believe it.

Wooster wrote:

The D'Agostini Thundercat?

Aye - build your cat over 1000 weeks. £15 per issue. You're onto a winner!

That occurred to me as well, not very cost effective.


Ondurin's Frankenwagen is possibly more appropriate.

Yes I know not cost effective at all. Doesn't bother me though, getting another T'cat is a good thing and building it from this method is going to be good for my confidence in building a bike etc.

Ondurin wrote:Yes I know not cost effective at all. Doesn't bother me though, getting another T'cat is a good thing and building it from this method is going to be good for my confidence in building a bike etc.

No, no...
The magazine thing is not cost effective (the magazine instalments are about twice the price of buying it in one go).

Cost doesn't come into what you're doing.

Picking up a running engine on Sunday with a ton of spares. Will get pics once I'm home with it all.

At this rate I'll need front forks and a radiator and most of the big stuff is done

So after a rather long 3 hour 30 minute drive I finally got to Hull for the Tcat parts, there was more than expected, filled up the entire back of my Mazda 3!

So I then drove 3 hours 30 minutes back to Oxford and unloaded the car, this is the results!



Only thing that annoyed me was that the header studs are snapped, so Ill have to remove them and put new ones in

Other than that I'm happy with the £350 that lot cost me.

The build thread will start once I get a full weekend to myself, but no idea when that will actually be :(

Raymond.

It looks like what you would find in the gravel trap after a highside & barrell roll on a track day lol.

Plenty of parts now to make a good start raymond.

Paul

Lol yeah it does look rather messy just piled in my back garden, it's all in the shed now though

Looking over the parts that I need will be the following: Front Forks, Radiator, Fairings, full exhaust system and chain & rear sprocket and maybe a few other parts but until I can get time with the bike it's just a rough list.

Update!

Had some spare time this morning so I started to pre-assemble the clip-ons.


I do need to rewire both clutch and cylinder switch so they take the correct connector but that's a 30 second job with the soldering iron and some thermal tube

Next week will see the bigger updates as I have 5 days off (Yes I booked some Holiday just to do this! ) to tinker and drill out the old header studs and replace them with new ones.

I'm having an issue finding a set of front forks but that's not a problem just yet tbh.

Raymond

What do you still need as parts?

Not 100% just yet, but I defiantly need front forks, radiator, rear sprocket and chain.

I'll have a much better idea next week though when I start to place it all out and catalog it all.

Chain and sprockets you want new, wouldn't go used on those, I have a set of ace forks but they are 50mm, I also have a radiator with fan I believe.