Billet Throttle body Trim

This is my second attempt at making a billet trim piece to replace the cheap looking IMHO stock chromed plastic throttle body trim, and I machined them up today and just installed them. The first ones I made were to big and didn't look right, so I made these smaller than the first ones but bigger than the stock trim pieces

I'm using the original bracket I made for the first trim pieces I made that I modified slightly and attach to the stock trim piece mounting tab on the throttle body. I plan on CNC machining up a new set of them with an integral mounting bracket so that it won't have any visible mounting screws as one of my projects when I go back to school next week.

I started off using the angles off of the stock trim piece, then I tweaked the angles so that the top edge runs parallel to the bottom of the frame tube and the bottom edge runs parallel to the centerline of the throttle body and the lower front edge runs parallel to the cylinders and the top forward face matches the angle on the back edge of the fairing, then I just stretched everything it making the entire cover bigger. I then sanded them and buffed them up to a full polished finish.

I'll take some full on side view pictures of my bike tomorrow, as they really look flow with the lines of the bike and look much better than the stocks one IMHO.

You've got skills, bro. The piece looks good.

GregH said:

You've got skills, bro. The piece looks good.

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Thanks Greg, and the next version with the integral mounting bracket will look even better as it will get rid of the mounting screws on the face and it will allow me to add another ball groove to the face of it also.

Whens the billet engine block coming?Thats what i want to know

red757 said:

Whens the billet engine block coming?Thats what i want to know

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I'm slowly working my way there.

Looks very sharp! Love to see that side view.

I've already gone ahead and drew up the trim with the intergral mount and added an additonal ball mill groove now that there are no mounting screws, and as you can see it looks a lot cleaner.

Billet Throttle body Trim part II

Look Ma, no mounting screws.

I would love to have your scraps, screws and all. SZ.

Well after looking at my new trim covers I decided that they would look better with the some black on the covers. I first painted them semi-gloss black and it was too much, I then removed the paint from the grooves, but I didn't like that look either, so I reversed it and painted the grooves black which I like.