Car wheel conversion to a VFR 750 Single Sided Swing Arm

OK, My name is CBRRRT, and I have a thread on Aussie Streetfighters forum called
CBRRRT's Blade - VFR SSSA info included

I have covered lots of subjects that can be located from the index on page one of
my thread.

I have found that the most difficult part of any task I have taken on is finding the
information about "HOW TO do the job. So what I plan to do here is try to put
down in a format thats understandable, with no technical jargon that I hope
everyone can understand no matter what level of expertise you are at.

So here we go.

The first thing youll need to be fair is a single sided swing arm from a VFR 750.
The Fireblade uses the arm from a 1996 VFR, but I have seen Bandits and GSXRs
on this forum using the earlier arm. The difference between the two is clear.



Left is Fireblade Right is GSXR/Bandit.

The reason for this is the VFR hub has 4 studs much like a car and has a stud pattern
of 4 x 100. That means there are 4 wheel studs, 100mm apart. Now you are going to
need to know this as when you buy your car wheel youll need to tell them this
important fact so they can check what wheels will fit your hub.

I found that a 2000 Honda Civic wheel was the right stud pattern, but I am also aware
that there are other car makes that will fit too.

The next thing to find out is the offset of your VFR wheel. The offset is not as hard to
find as you may think. Think of a wheel, now imagine you could slice the wheel in
two right down the middle (That would be the wheel centre)


Now look at the face of your VFR wheel where it meets the face of the hub on the
VFR arm. That face is not in the centre as you may think, but its slightly offset from
the centre, and that is your offset. Now next you need to know what that offset is.









Step 1.

Lay the wheel on a flat surface hub face side up. It dont have to be level, just flat




Step 2.

Place a straight edge across the top of the tyre. This is so you can measure from
the floor to the underside of the straight edge, and give you an overall width.
Now depending what size tyre you use on your wheel will depend on averall width
so dont go with my measurement unless you are using a 180 tyre.




Step 3.

I got 184mm, Make a note of the size on a bit of paper. I found it easier to make
a sketch of the tyre and add a centre line, then add the dims to it.




Step 4.

Now measure down to the hub face, mine was 110mm. Now add that to the
sketch.




This sketch should make things a bit easier




So

Overall wheel width = 184mm (With the tyre on)
and = 92mm to the centre of the VFR wheel
I then laid the straight edge on top of the tyre and measured down to the hub
face = 110mm
so that is 18mm past centre. This 18mm is my existing offset,
that being the case then new wheel offset = 40mm - 18mm = 22mm + 8mm
spacer to centre VFR wheel, so new spacer is 30mm


Next thing we need to do is remove the wheel studs from the VFR hub



I thought it might be a bit easier to do the job if I removed the sprocket first and
got the chain right out of the way.




They are the little buggers I need to get to




So after I got the sprocket off the next thing to do was undo that big nut. I dont
have a socket that big so used an adjustable wrench.
Behind the nut is a washer that needs to be removed carefully with a flat screw
driver.




Once they are off the hub should pull off.




With a soft mallet, tap out the hub from the splined side.




I used my Haines manuel, but now all you have to do is follow this, happy days!!!




Next I placed a socket in my vice that would fit over the head of the stud so when
I hit it with my hammer, the hub was supported.



I then placed my disc hub onto the vice with the wheel stud sat inside the socket.




It only needed a couple of gentle taps and it popped out.





Now up to now its only taken about half an hour, so not hard at all




And there they all are.




Now I have something I can go to my local car spares shop with and ask for
something a bit longer.




Hub is 8mm + 30mm spacer + new wheel, so I'm gonna need something to cope
with all that




I'm gonna do it with two spacers, 1 x 20mm and 1 x 10mm, coz I'm not a clever
git with a lathe that can make one. When the 20mm spacer arrived it was just a
touch to small, so I went round the inside with a round back file and took off a
very small amount.




Then it popped straight on, and was a nice snug fit.












I thought I would spend a bit of time tarting up a few bits and bobs while it was
in bits.










Time well spent.

These are the studs I used, they are 63mm long and are from a Ford the thread
on them has a pitch of 1.5 mm (The angle of the thread) and your VFR wheel
nuts will fit straight on to them.









Right then, lets see if I can remember how this pile of nuts and bolts went
together




piece of cake, it was easy to take it to bits, so putting it all back was a doddle.




The studs I used were 63mm long Ford studs (M12/1.5) The M12 is the size of
the bolt and the 1.5 is the pitch of the thread. They have a 13.1mm spigot, thats
the bit that bites into the hub. You'll need to drill out your hub to fit them, but if a
numb nut like me can do it, then so can you.




I put the 20mm spacer on first as the back has hollow sections that sat nice over
the disc rotor nuts. Then the 10mm spacer went on next.




Loads of room for the wheel, and plenty of thread for my funkey wheel nuts.















And the wheel is on





A really easy job to do and one I would most defiantly recommend.

There are a range of tyres on the market that will fit the hub, I went for a Dunlop
200 x 50 x 17 as it is used on the ZX12 I dont see Im going to have any
problems with it at all.

Well I hope you found this interesting and may even have a go yourself. As I
said the hardest part of the job is finding the information "HOW TO do it. Well
then, thats now been done for you, so no excuses.

Crack on!!

Regards,

CBRRRT.