Seems like i keep moving weight from top to bottom in this poor old thing .... not a bad thing
but tedious.
Silly me originally installed the swing arm and engine, checked for clearance and figured out where to mount it ....before i chopped and welded the rack section of the frame, which lowered the rack about 2.5-3 inches. Had me puzzled all night as to why the engine mounting cross bar hits the rack. Dawned on me this morning. So the center rack bar has to come out yet, no big loss. I have an 2.6 gallon atv fuel tank to mount up there. It'll change the way i mount it, but should still work.
Got my fancy
"window" all done. Going to set the shocks so there's a relatively acute angle to the subframe, have to make sure the travel is all used up and i don't punch the engine into the seatback on big hits. Basically i'm just adding more ground clearance to the rear.