I got the spacers turned down on the lathe, ended up with 1.811" (drive side) and 1.771" overall widths on them. Then I took .35" and .31" off the swingarm. I rough cut it with a cut off wheel then ground it nice with a file, turned out pretty nice! Chain seems to line up nice and straight too. (I noticed everyone uses the metric system when measuring for their builds... why? A decent bit of us are in America! The metric system is based off of a scale of 10...and that makes too much sense lol j/k I deal with the imperial system all day at work, so just more natural to me)
I am hoping to address the motor mounts next weekend. As it is sitting right now, the motor is rotated up as far as it can go hitting the coolant line into the head. I plan to make a plate to clock forwards for more room for the bigger tank; like Tedh98 did (thanks for the good idea!).
As it sits though, it looks like the Gnarly pipe is going to work out, I'll keep my fingers crossed.
Did anyone have an issue with the front head stay interfering with the coolant line? was thinking about making a mount for it on the frame, but I think its going to interfere and need cut off.
I would like to ask for a little assistance with setting the motor mounts. What am I looking for in regards to sprocket position relative to the swingarm/chain slider as the bike is sitting? Horizontal with the pivot point? Or higher? I guess I don't know how to judge what a good amount of contact would be with the chain slider while the suspension is at fool droop and not on its wheels. Any photos would be helpful if anyone had any handy. I was looking at my buddy's YZ450F yesterday and his sprocket center line looked like it was directly in line with the swingarm with the bike at fool droop. Imagine if you drew a straight line through the center line of the rear axle, thru the centerline of the pivot point; it would pass through the center line of the sprocket. Is that what I want? Just thinking about it, I would have thought that would be too high while riding it.