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...needs a bit of love, will buy it from a friend in installments then i will get the bike. Will post a pic up here in a bit, oh and hi!

i currently ride a zxr 400 l4 as my daily commuter bike...i do like my 90's bikes, the fazer will be a 89 G-reg...and this is after i promised myself not to buy another carb'd bike

its gonna cost me £400 for the bike, which is a bit of a bargain as i can do all of the mechanical work myself - plus my friend im buying it off works in a waterjet workshop with every kind of machine you could want so i can get anything i want machined

will be nice to have something i can work on that doesnt need to be ready for the morning to get me to work

I picked one up in boxes that had been apart for 10 years so it sounds like your project will be a far cry easier to be on the road. Have fun with the re-furbishing

have a handshake-contract, £100 when i get paid, the rest in mid-october, bike delivered to me for free, the only extras are 4-cans of beer in exchange for the service and haynes manuals

im looking forward to getting into the engine, there is a shot-peening/abrasives place literally around the corner from me, so the whole engine will be going there to have the external metal cleaned and exposed ready for a (probable) paint-up. i will also look at getting the crank balanced and probably knife-edged/superfinished at the same time, dont know about lightening it, will have to see if it will cope with a few grammes taken off here and there...

it will be a full top and bottom end clean and rebuild, all new seals and gaskets, i want the engine in brand-new condition before it goes in the bike, im pretty sure i will street-fighter it...cheaper to do that than to get all the fairings resprayed with a 4-5 colour paint-job.

im also looking at a 520-pitch conversion, as there is more choice of sprockets, plus a bit lighter than original, with a 180/55 17" rear tyre and sprockets front-1 rear+1 i will lose about 10% of the top speed (but it should still hit almost 160mph) but it will be mental in the first 3 gears...like it should be.

am just looking forward to getting stuck in, my zxr400 is a sweet handling bike, it will be nice to finally work on something that i can leave in peices for a month at a time because i dont need it to get to work.

My ZXR 400 L4 (1994) with +41,500 miles on the clock and 12 previous owners:-

Rooster wrote:I picked one up in boxes that had been apart for 10 years so it sounds like your project will be a far cry easier to be on the road. Have fun with the re-furbishing

nice, bikes in boxes are always fun

im expecting it to take 8-12 months to finish...if it is on the road for the summertime i will be pleased. depends on how much time i can put into it over winter.

looks like you keep your bikes really clean and I am looking forward to the final result of your efforts, and I am going to name my bike build "bike in a box." hopefully I can have it out of the shop by spring and then see about the full restoration the next winter, this winter I am hoping to reassemble the engine put it back in the frame and run it for the "summer' here (approximately 4 months of riding time if there isn't too much bad weather).

current condition of the fzr thou...


gonna need a lot of work

you'll be sound with that...If you've seen some of the projests at our place, theres hope for everything. If you dont have a rad, theres a 89-90 one on ebay at present

Stig wrote:you'll be sound with that...If you've seen some of the projests at our place, theres hope for everything. If you dont have a rad, theres a 89-90 one on ebay at present

i have a rad, its a complete bike...just in bits at the moment.

once i get it sparking it will be in even more pieces gonna refresh the loom (new connectors packed with dielectric grease), chop off some bits (kill switch, side stand switch etc...) and trim those wires back. Once i get everything repositioned where i want it the loom will get fully stripped back, re-wired and re-heatshielded/wrapped etc...them wires have mass you know

i can get cerain hard-to-find chemicals in my job so im gonna be getting my frame and wheels powdercoated for free looking at matt black frame and swingarm, with matt black wheels and orange pinstripe then some coats of laquer to give it some longevity.