Dre-XT-Stueck - the re-Dre-XT-Stueck-ening (pt.1)

Now the Dre-XT-Stueck is awesome - we can all agree on that. What we shouldn't agree on is that the piston and head are still fine. So in order to improve the awesomeness... let's fix the frame first. As the Dre-XT-Stueck grew some extra CCs and the fact that it is easier to use a different frame and re-register the bike than to have the displacement altered in the existing paperwork, I got a frame, which needed some love and got started with it.

First thing to tackle: The coil mount. Pictured is the one on the current frame.

Luckily I had some leftover brackets from the GPZ500 coils, where I lobed off the tabs.

And then welded on. Using the coil to get the spacing right.

Bit of dressing up of the tabs and then see if a proper broomstick could be pressed into service as a makeshift frame holder.

Works just fine. Next up some cutting to get rid of the sidestand switch as my XT frame (and loom for the same reason) came without a sidestand switch, it had to be removed from the new frame as well. 

And some non-standard holes on the rear subframe needed to be addressed.

This is only primer, but honestly it looks mighty fine in white too. (But the frame will be covered in flat black.)

The one thing I realised, I forgot to fix was the mounting point for the muffler, as the nut that usually goes in there has been drilled out and the whole mount needs reconstruction as this was done in a rather drastic way...