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Not a whole lot done to this thing, still looking for parts mostly. Tonofun set me up with a extra 650 roller he had behind his shop that had a straight fork legs. Got those on and then made some clip-ons out of extra bars and the extra fork tree I had from the other frame. need to finish up the...
That's the idea, even though it won't really be a board tracker, I just want to look like some GI had a '70s Jap bike with mag wheels and disc brakes and threw something together to race on the weekends in his garage in the '40s.
Here's another headlight option and the tail light I'm going to...
I was at the gas station filling up my KZ550 and a guy walks up and starts talking to me about it. After a little chatting he said he had a kz650 that he wanted to sell, for shits and giggles I asked how much and he said $100. I was excited and imagined some untouched bike in a shed but then...
Nice work, love the shaker tip. I have that same header on my 550, I cut the muffler off ant the weld and made a baffle for it. Nice work on the tail too. Did mine out of aluminum too and integrate the tail light into it. Check it out in my build thread
Syncing the carbs makes sures that all 4 carbs are pulling the same amount of vacuum while running. To bench sync all you do is after the carbs are assembled is make sure all the slides are at the same position (one isn't anymore open than the other 3.) again this is a starting point, the only...
Looking good. Nice clean wiring too, I'm sure you're smart enough to stash an extra fuse in there like me, but not as dumb as me to not have a screwdriver (or hell even a dime to pop the aircraft fasteners to take off of my tail to get to it). For a baffle look on ebay for something that will...
Get online and see if you can track down a manual for your bike that has those carbs, comes in handy when you forget what goes where. The idea is to be methodical and organized. When I rebuild carbs I take them off the bike as a whole unit then I work on one at a time. It also helps if you get...
Nothing really new here, ordered some new dyna coils because one stock coil is getting a little weak so I figured it was time for new ones. Also still working on the handlebar situation, have some clip-ons that will need some modifying to fit and also waiting for a guy to dig out some clubmans...
Re: 1982 Gpz550 cafe build - Grid Rocket
Looking good. I've always wanted a GPZ. I have the snotty little brother the KZ550. I also have that same MAC 4-1 exhaust. I didn't like the look of the giant can either so I cut it off right at the weld and made a small baffle out of exhaust pipe...
Made a new petcock for the tank this weekend, yet another hardware store fitting turned motorcycle part. Took some brass fuel fittings like this,
and a little machining and soldering you get this,
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