XB9R to S Conversion and Lowering Questions.

[Glade21]

Hey everyone. I am new to this site and scene in general. I have been browsing for hours and hours on this site getting some knowledge on this bike as I am going to be picking one up a week from today, and I have a couple questions, and I apologize if thats has been covered, but the search engine isn't the greatest. The bike I am picking up is the white one, but I would love it to look like the red (buellchick) or yellow one. I understand the parts can be interchanged, but does anyone have a definitive "parts list" for everything I would need to do the tail and front end conversion? I just couldn't find any real answers. also I read that the yellow one is lowered a bit due to fork and rear shock swaps and I was wondering if there is any info on that because I love the stance. Anyways, please pardon my ignorance, I just want to get everything I need without hunting down other parts, thanks alot.

 

[airbrushgary]

I was kind of entertaining this idea as well since my fuse box and relays are already wired in my tail section under the seat. I wonder if my situation would be as easy as swapping the front fairing and lighting assemblies but since I am only getting familiar with the R's and have no experience with a Lightning, I wonder if the plugs for headlights are the same as well as the other electronics???

 

[upthemaiden]

Gary, sounds like you got lucky. The electronics up front are always peoples biggest headaches when they try to swap the front ends.

Glade: the search engine on this forum does suck the most out of any forums I've been on, but that's ok. If I remember correctly, to do the tail you need....

Subframe
seat
undertray
little piece that goes around the taillight and holds the license plate

To do the front you need to move some of your electronics to the tail, then get the new headlights, flyscreen, side panels, and a new wiring harness because of the electronics you moved. If you're good with electrical work I'm sure you can just modify yours to work.

What are your plans for the handlebars? If you are leaving the firebolt bars on you need to drill some holes in the top triple, cut off the mount for your ignition, and cut some holes in the side panels for the flyscreen so the bars have clearance. If you want the lightning bars you'll just need to get the new top triple and bars. Either way the ignition for the lightning front end is on the left side behind the flyscreen. If you look at the picture of the red bike above, you can see the blue key right below the end of the clutch lever.

Hope that helps, there are a couple people on here who have done the swap so I'm sure someone can get more specific than I can.

Some people like to go the other way with it too, so if you ask around you may get something that will just trade you front/rear ends for yours.