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Looking good! I like your youthful enthusiasm! 

Thank You!

Test fit. Still needs some filing and tweaking....

very nice work. You a man on a mission and seems like you are going to accomplish it. A fun well running RD400.
Keep it up.

Thank you very much for the kind words. It sure is fun to see a project come together!

Sketchy? Never heard of it...

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Thanks hahaha. Now tell me the secret;)

Nice work!  What caliper are you going to use?

Thank you! I'll use the r6 "blue dot" calipers.

looks good. the hubcentric ring is a nice touch.

Thanks! I didn't want the bolts centering it, so the spacer I tried to make wouldn't work very well so I went with hub centric one instead. A huge thanks to you as well for getting me started on the project!

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Sorry for the sideways pictures. Trying to figure out the forum picture format...

First picture is my neighbor Dave using his lathe to turn down the I.D a tad...
Second picture is the thickness being turned down to 13mm on a good 'ol Ammco brake lathe!

Huge thanks to Sean Skinner at Motorelic (Hooked me up with a spare spacer), Chuck Quenzler, my awesome neighbor Dave who helped with machining, my Dad who also helped me machine the spacer with a brake lathe, and Eric Zanutto for advice.
The spacer that was supplied wasn't quite right so i had to make some adjustments to make it fit precisely.
More pictures to come!

Here's another picture.
Nick

Nick, good effort thus far.  If you're doing hand work if recommend making a complete pattern from display cardboard first, then test fit your parts to the cardboard pattern  The critical part is the alignment of the two sets of holes and their relationship to each set will determine the rotor path clearing the inside radius of the caliper.  Doing the one off part I would bore the holes first then cut your profile.  With square edges it's much easier and accurate to drill your holes while hold the part in a vice of some sort.  If you're doing it by layout measuring from a straight line is easy, a curved one.. not so much.  BTW, are you using the stock RD400 mag wheel, just to be sure?  Just trying to give few tips when learning how to make parts from metal.
   Cheers, 50gary

Thanks for the pointers. I know the alignment is the most important part and will be tricky. I got the template off of the forum so that should get me pretty close. Just doing my best. If it doesn't work out, I'll just try again! Yup, keeping the original mag wheels. Hopefully everything works out. Fingers crossed!

When did the caliper mount move from the front to the back of the fork?

Not sure what you mean...?

lol brake fluid. They should bottle it and sell it as paint stripper.

ok... found some Kleanstrip at walmart on the net. I'll go get some tomorrow.

Thanks again!

Yup they should hahaha! Good luck with the project!

Brake fluid always seems to take paint off when I don't need it to:) Maybe try Klean-Strip or Jasco....