Did Honda ever make an 1100 VFR?

I am aware of all the BS over swapping a VF 750 to an 1100 or maybe a 1000 but did honda ever make a VFR with an 1100 motor? Can an 1100 motor be forced into a VFR 750 frame?

 

No VFR 1100, only VF 1100C,&VF1100S in the early to mid '80s C=custom/cruiser S= Saber, cool bike very top heavy.

 

1100 V4

Don't forget the other Honda 1100 V4, the ST1100, from 91 to 2003?

No, won't fit a VFR frame.

Larry

 

Ive got a guy claiming he has a 750 with a 900 cc kit

that was bored to 1100. I say he doesn't know what he's talking about. In the first place he has a VFR 700F AC. That is an early '86 700cc VIN number, ie not a VFR 700F2. Was there a big bore kit for the 700. He claims his is a 750. Sorry, I did not check the motor numbers. If there was a big bore kit it must have come in both flavors, 700 and 750. My info says that the 700 was a destroked 750. Then was there a kit to enlarge cylinders and pistons, sort of like a VW type one? Then the guy claims that the big bore was overbored. Sounds like a story to me. The problem with all that boring and enlarging cylinder volume is that eventually you run out of material and free area between the adjacent cylinders.

Any hotshots out there who have punched out a 700, or maybe a 750, to over 1000 cc or possibly to 1100? Can it be done. Were their fools selling overbore kits in the 80's/90's. Did they flycut the heads to enable installing the oversize cylinders? Sounds improbable.

 

Can`t be done as a 1100cc. The VF1000F and VF1000R were based on the 750 but not many parts interchange. The 1000`s were bored to 77mm which required wet liners and also stroked to 53.6mm to give 998cc. Max safe overbore of the 1000`s according to Dave Dodge is 79mm giving displacement of 1024cc.

 

no there was a vf1000r

 

honda has never made a VFR with a motor bigger than 800cc stock. the only 1100's that i know of honda making are the CBR1100XX and the ST1100. as for the 1st gen VFR's, the most displacement we can get out of them is 840cc, and thats with a 750 motor (or a 700 motor with a 750 crankshaft and connecting rods) and a big bore kit.

 

1100 CC VFR for sale

Thanks to you guys : Chris71Mach1, NYMBYSS,VF1000RS, and others for clear statement regarding possibility of punching out a VFR to 1100 cc. My question was prompted by a local Craigs List sale of an '86 VFR 700. It was probably a stolen or otherwise compromised bike. It was located in a remoter part Southern California in what is called the Inland Empire in a small town named Wildomere. It had had a hard life. It was repainted yellow at some point and its plastics were in bad to none existent condition.

I drive an 86 700F2 myself and I went out to see it (about 35 miles from Riverside, CA). The guy selling it was a peculiar type. He lived in a convered garage out in the hinterlands, in a low cost subdivided ranching area on a plot where He came out with this story about it having been enlarged to 900 cc with a big bore kit? I couldnt quite wrap that around my brain. Then he claimed that the big bore kit had been further relieved to 1100 cc.

He told me up front that the bike had no papers and he started getting into a story about retreiving it from someone who had stolen it from him. He was too edgy and strange and I was not in the mood for bantering with a mad man in the blistering sunlight of a 100 degree day. He was selling it for $500. I thought of offering $200 for it just as a parts bike, but did not want to extend the conversation. He sold it to the first money offered by someone with a truck to haul it away and no qualms about buying what might be a stolen bike.

I took the serial number (JH2RC261XGM000530) on the bike and referenced it as an early 86 VFR 700 made before Feb of 86.