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final drive
Written by bigphillip79 on 2/3/2012 at 11:54 pm

Man I love this thing.
I rode with the ROMEO Riders to lunch today. If any one doesn't know this group
its: Retired Old Motorcyclist Eating Out. Mostly snowbirds that show up in the
winter here but have chapters all over the place. They just meet up for lunch
here and there.
Lets just say they are not the fastest group to ride with but its fun. We did
about 275 miles at 55 to almost 65mph sometimes. With this new final drive I
never needed 5th gear. The bike cruised happily in 4th from 4000-4500 rpm.
Before I would've been stuck right in between 4th and 5th and shifting up and
down to there inconsistent pace. When I broke off from the group I picked it up
to 75 and 5th gear.

--- In ipcrc@yahoogroups.com, "Hungry White Boy" <bigphillip79@...> wrote:
>
> 1- 2004 Shadow Sabre, VT1100C2.
>
> 2- All that is need is the Final drive, just the pumpkin. The dust guard (part
7 in the parts schematic) and the collar spacer thing (part 8) is all I needed
to swap over.
>
> 3- The VT1100 drive shaft and swing arm are 2-3 inches too short to use on the
PC. Just get the Final Drive.
>
> --- In ipcrc@yahoogroups.com, "douglasvanb" <douglas.vanbossuyt@> wrote:
> >
> > Here is what I threw together this evening:
> >
> >
http://www.douglasvanbossuyt.com/2012/02/02/final-drive-options-for-the-honda-pc\
800-pacific-coast/
> >
> > I still have three questions for people who have swapped in VT1100 final
drives they are:
> >
> > 1) Which exact model of VT1100 final drive did you successfully swap in?
There are five candidate final drives used across the different models and
years.
> >
> > 2) What pieces transferred over from the VT1100 final drives and which ones
were reused from the PC800 final drive?
> >
> > 3) Are people only buying the VT1100 final drive or the whole rear-end
(final drive, swingarm, wheel, misc pieces, etc) to swap into their PC800s?
> >
> > If anyone who has done this conversion could answer these three questions
(and provide any other relevant details), I would be GREATLY appreciative. I
will update the page I linked to above as I find out more information.
> >
> > Thank you everyone! Let's get these questions answered and we can finally
say we have fully answered the questions surrounding the VT1100 final drive
swap.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Dougals
> >
> > --- In ipcrc@yahoogroups.com, "douglasvanb" <douglas.vanbossuyt@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Thanks HWB/Big Phillip!
> > >
> > > I am working on putting together a spreadsheet to lay out all of the
options and differences. Hopefully in another hour I'll get all the formatting
sorted out and have a link for everyone to look at :-)
> > >
> > > ...I wonder if we could change the ratios in our secondary drives...
> > >
> > > Cheers!
> > >
> > > Douglas
> > >
> > > --- In ipcrc@yahoogroups.com, "Hungry White Boy" <bigphillip79@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I did a little research and the final drive ratios in VT1100s are the
same. The secondary drive that puts power to the drive shaft has different
rations between models.
> > > >
> > >
> >
>