to fe or not to fe,,,,

[johnr]

that is the question......
or for that matter, to sd or not to sd.....
ok, im after info from folk who know about either sd or fe katanas. i got a kat from chris a while back, he thought it was an 1100sd, there wasnt much left of it, rolling chassis, engine and thats it. no bodywork or seat or v5, so it was assumed to be an sd. however, im stripping it tonight cos the frame is going away, and ive got some suspicion that it might actually be an fe or a 70th edition kat. the frame has a few features that ive not seen before. firstly its currently black, but underneath the paint is silver, its got sd footpegs but a rather nice cast ally brake lever rather than the steelmone of the sz, does the sd have this? the frame also has a bit of extra bracing under the headstock, as well as two mounts on the frame at the fromt of the engine that look like oil cooler mounts and that arent present on my 750sd frame. the front engine mounts dont bolt through the frames but are only bolted into captive nuts from the inside, so no bolt holes on the outside. the frame also has a mounting for a sidestand cutout switch which im pretty sure the sd didnt have. as well as this there are a couple of extra fittings on the frame that arent on the sd, near the front of the seat rails. to add to this, the wheels are both all black with no bright bits, i thought they had been painted matt black, but under that there is more sniney black paint, the wheels are snowflake pattern btw not sd pattern. theres also an extra set of numbers stamped on the headstock and it just doesnt look to me like its an sd frame. so, anyone know about sd or fe frames.

[johnr]

oh, the extra line of lettering on the headstock says DCM 50574 OM

[Uncle Bob]

See other thread for images:
http://www.katanaownersclub.co.uk/forum ... 575#p47575

but mine also has that on checking this evening.

[johnr]

dont know how this got fuplicated.