Italjohn's Typhoon project 172

Hello to you all. I'm John from Norway, and I have been so inspired by tErr0, so I have bougth my own Typhoon. It's 1996 compete standard, but not for long
I have started stripping it down, and want to paint it black like tErr0.
Hope you don't mind? I have also bought new NRG wheels for it + a new type speedo. All from Ebay uk. It cost a fortune in postage, but I have scooters as a hobby, and hobbys ain't cheap.
I will post pictures as I progress, but this is a winter project, so be patient.

This is how she look when I bougth her.





Here I have started the stripping her.


NRG front wheel. NRG original disk is too big, so I have to buy a new fork to use it.

NRG rear wheel

Wheels on the chassis


Some parts back from powder coating. I have even powder coated the exhaust. I don't know how it will cope with the heat, but I had to try as it was so rusty.



New and old speedo.

Sanding down the panels.

 

Wow.
Didnt think there was many unmodded typhs kicking around!
Looking forward to this one mate.
The wheels look sick already

 

good work john...keep up the good work

Typhs looking good already

 

Ye man, looks damn good!
What colour you thinking of having the wheels or keeping them yellow??

Well done so far< keep us posted and keep them pics coming :nerd:

 

love it, one thing i will say is powdercoated exhaust is gonna be a no no.

powdercoat is basically a plastic-like coating, it doesnt like heat very much, it MIGHT stand it, but i would be a bit skeptical.

other then that looks like its gonna be a good project.

 

Any one tried this pipe from SIP? Art.-no. 20040000

 

This I already have on my Runner, migth want one for the Typhoon as well.
http://www.sip-scootershop.com/upload/f ... 34_000.pdf

 

I also want to get rid of the standard air box, but do not want to use a open airfilter, as this make a lot of noice.
What do you think about this?Art.-No.: AC115210F

 

personal mate on a zorst id go for a scorpian as for the open filter id go for a malossi one mines great.

 

really i thought scorps performed mint, but yeah that pipe does look fuckin wankwhat 172 kit you got on it mate?

 

What do you recomend then, MiNoR cOnFuSiOn?
How about the RS180 from

And you are right about the engine, so I'm trying to get a series 2 engine from Ebay this days.

 

was that called for i was saying what ive been told

 

yeah sorry

 

Ok I keep this in mind then.


Edit 06/08/08 Think i will go for this:

 

i have seen a few jolly moto pipe they sound nice but i fink they make it look to much like a 50 and loving the typh mate