Hello Triumph forum!! A little more than 2 years ago I bought @trumppking 2011 daytona 675. I had 3 street bikes ranging from an 1989 FZR 600 to a 2003 Kawi ZX6R. A daytona 675 was always a bike that I lusted over and when a blue one came up for sale locally from @MGFChapin who was dealing with the sale I just knew I had to have it. Luckily the price was right and so I snagged it even though there was snow on the ground. Paul @MGFChapin) was a great salesmen and showed me around his shop and his track bikes and made the sale super easy.
Fast forward a year and I was ready to start getting serious about riding on the track. Riding a motorcycle fed my adrenaline habit but I was constantly fed up with cars that disagreed with sharing the road with motorcycles. I had done a track day with my FZR 600 in 2008 and 3 with my 03 GSXR on the east coast with NESBA and I knew that would be the way to get my fix. The 2011 Daytona 675 was just wayyyy to clean to throw down the track so I bought a 05 GSXR 600 to figure out if track days/racing was something that i wanted to pursue and 5 track days later I was all in. I sold the GSXR and bought a 2006 Daytona 675 track bike. I could tell that it had a hard life so I pulled off the nice track parts (GP Forks, Penske Shock and track body) and put it on the 2011 Daytona. I did one track day at the end of 2019 and started planning my 2020 season.
Now that the 2020 season is coming up quick this is my build thread as well as question thread on how i navigate this process and build the best race bike for myself. I cant thank Paul enough for the help so far, he's been amazing when it comes to technical processes as well as just general track knowledge. I literally would be in the dirt both metaphorically and physically if it wasn't for him.
As for the bike. The pictures will show but its mostly stock but some Attack rearsets and woodcraft clip ons. I've added some 2006 forks with GP internals and a Penske triple clicker rear shock. My plans for the build are both mechanical and electrical. I'm hoping to chop of the stock harness to get rid of all the BS to make everything more simple and clean. I'm fully comitted to this being a track bike so I'm gonna grind off unused fairing mounts and try to make it as clean as possible. I'm a bit OCD and I think the better you treat your bike the better it will treat you.
Futre mod plans:
Brembo 20x19
R6 brakes
Attack triples
Chomped up wiring harness - Paul told me to contact @MacBandit as apparently he is the wiring guru
Rear Link
Pictures:
Original for sale pictures
First picture at home with my old ZX6R
Couple Track Day Pictures:
Current Pictures:
Thanks so much everyone and looking forward to building her up!
If you want to change calipers, go with the brembo M4s from the R model and pair them with a Brembo GP mk2 19x18. Ive run team endurance races on my bike and have R6 guys saying "Holy shit, your brakes kick ass"
Is it safe to cut the battery tray area along this line? It doesn't appear that the part behind it is holding or connecting anything. IMG_2580 by Joseph Hutter, on Flickr
1. Looks like the plug for the taillights, yeah.
2. That's the plug for the OEM alarm system. Yours is blanked off.
3. Why do you want to cut there? Is there any heat shield on the exhaust side of the battery tray?
1. Awesome. I'll cut those back to the ECU
2. Is the alarm system tied into the ignition or an immobilize at all? For example if I traced all those wires back to the ECU and cut them?
3. No heat shielding. Basically just to get rid of things that aren't needed.
My suggestions are only practical:
Keyless gas cap
Woodcraft ignition bypass; having to remember to take the bike keys to the track sux. Forgetting to take them sux more.
My self and other track riders have all had piss poor life from batteries. Not idea why trackbike uses little power. And the bike lives on a battery tender. Still every 18 months it starts running like crap and eventually on 2 cylinders. A fresh battery cures it.
I relocated the rectifier from behind the engine to up on an aluminum bracked i mounted Off the ram air duct. The goal is to run cooler and less chance of failure. And if it does fail it is stupid easy to disconnect and swap out.
None of these are sexy but they are serve the purpose of keeping me on track with minimal effort.
Are those pics taken at the ridge? Asks the guy from houston.. looks familiar.
A little update. I spent some time at Paul's shop and with his help we got the Attack triples and rear link installed. He also showed me how to change the fork oil (we did fork seals while we were in there) and shock oil.
[/url]
After I got home i went to work on installing the R6 Brakes and Brembo Master
Sanding down the rotors
Installed with correct spacers
Brembo Z04 brake pads
Brembo 19x20 master
[/url]
Fresh fluid and a nice short run
Next in line is a red sub frame and continuing to work on the wiring harness.
Hello all your restless quarantine folk! I made a bit of progress on the Daytona this weekend. Fitted the read subframe, tank and superbike tail. Swapped the fuel pump and installed the new keyless gas cap. Still working on the wiring harness. I have a track day in 10 days so at this point i feel like my strategy is if anything isnt plugged in, its good to cut. Thoughts?
[
[/url]
Superbike seat. 517 isn't my race number as I'm still a track rider but its my birthday (May 17) for picture sakes
Don't cut yet - tape it up, tape it off. It's a lot easier to plug in some forgotten item while the harness is still intact! Give it a weekend or three, make sure nothing's gone missing.
That's the best advice I've seen on here in a while... Being British there is just way too many things that can and might go wrong. Tape is cheap and easy, and will ensure that your not forced to buy a whole new wiring harness when you get a little happy with the knife...:lousyputer_smilie:
Hello All! A bit of update on the track bike project. So I followed the the Snip --> Start, Snip ----> start process over and over again with the wiring harness and everything but then BAMM didn't start so I spent 2 hours back tracking where i went wrong and finally figured it out and after that i was like "ok we are done with this..." I was able to zip tie the rest of the harness under the ram air assembly which solved my problem of having to deal with it every time I took off my upper fairing.
Below you will see the work I did before my first track days on 5/31 and 6/1. I couldn't be more excited to get out there......Spoiler alert.....The day went HORRIBLE! The front brakes were sticky and cause a horrible shutter when I was braking and the battery i installed from my previous track bike was obviously on its last leg and didn't start In the morning so I had to charge it after every sessions. On top of that I did a shit job of bleeding the coolant (water) system and had overheating problems in addition to the brake and battery problems.
I was pretty much ready to quit the sport and roll my bike into the pacific, but I had some Green Label whiskey, regrouped and bought new seals for the R6 calipers, a new Yuasa Battery and Galfer Rotors. Once those arrive I'll drop them in and hopefully have a better day.
Thanks for looking!
******* massive wiring harness that I attempted to cut down
Superbike Tail
The extra wiring i took off the wood craft ignition eliminator
Why Triumph....why
Zip Tied to the ram air. Zip Ties are always the solution!
Next was a custom AIM Solo 2 mount.
Mocking it up -
[
Test Fit
Unfortunately once I got it put together it rattled a bunch so I put some supports together to give it some strength. Thanks JB Weld!
[/url]
Painted
Next was a custom mount for the Pit Bull TRS system for a Kendon Trailer
I rebuild the R6 brakes with brand new seals and got new to me Galfer Rotors. New Yuasa battery and refilled the cooling system and bleed the absolute piss out of it. Did a track day on the 8th and it went 2000 times better. No issues with braking or overheating and with the bike running well I was able to drop 6-8 seconds off my lap times. I am doing Yamaha Champions Race School on the 16th and then I will be putting some slicks on. Tire warmers and generator are already in the garage.
No pictures of the repairs but someone took one sessions worth
For sure. That’s why it’s fun to try new disciplines. I was going flat tracking this year before the virus shit it down. I showed you the 85 I bought to race didn’t I?
For sure. That's why it's fun to try new disciplines. I was going flat tracking this year before the virus shit it down. I showed you the 85 I bought to race didn't I?
Update - Time to change the title from Track Bike to Race Bike
No real repair items of notes. Bike has been running perfect so no reason to mess with it. Been doing track days a bunch this summer. The Ridge Motorsports Park got a chicane this summer and that added 7-9 seconds to lap times. A New Racer School track day came up and so I decided it was time to send it and go racing. Signed up, pass the on track session and finished up the classroom session this past weekend. Next time you see the bike it will have black and yellow novice numbers
Picture from the NRS
First race for me will be Aug 16 so I went out with @MGFChapin this last Monday (8-10) to get some final laps in before it gets real. Few 2:01s and a bunch of 2:02/2:03 so I'm feeling pretty good going into the race. I know it will be WAY different than track days and I'm excited!
Time for a quick update. What started out as a street bike turned into a track bike and after August 16th it was officially a race bike. No changes to the bike in between the track day and the race day just some fresh rubber.
I did my first race on August 16th at the Ridge Motorsports Park. I wasn't able to make the Saturday qualifying so I was stuck at the back of the grid for the race on Sunday. There was a big group doing 2:00 laps and another big group doing 2:10 laps. I was hoping with a good start there was a chance I could stick with the 2:00 group. Unfortunately i didn't get the start I wanted and was slotted behind most the group. I was able to get past the slower riders into 7th position at the start of lap 3 of 6, and set off chasing down 6th. After 2 laps I wasn't gaining on him and so I decided to back off the pace and just finish the race which i did in 7th. Overall a pretty boring first race but I popped my cherry and was excited for the next round
My 2nd race was September 5th at Pacific Raceways. I was able to make qualifying this round and after a couple of strong laps I was able to qualify 5th. Didn't get a dream start but it wasn't bad and slotted into 6th place. I was able to hang onto 5th place and reel him in but he was much better at getting past the slower 1000cc riders (we do wave starts with 1000cc novice riders). No enough laps to catch 5th so I ended up finishing 6th.
This will be the final update to the thread as I have decided to sell the bike and have bought a 2014 Daytona 675r for the upcoming race season.
Thanks for watching and looking!
Videos:
This is an older thread, you may not receive a response, and could be reviving an old thread. Please consider creating a new thread.
Related Threads
?
?
?
?
?
Triumph 675 Forums
1.2M posts
39.9K members
Since 2005
A forum community dedicated to Triumph 675 owners and enthusiasts. Come join the discussion about performance, modifications, classifieds, troubleshooting, maintenance, and more!