Z650 into 810 project

KWACKERZ1 · #136 PostAuthor: **KWACKERZ1** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 10:35 am

Slabby 750gsxr mudgaurds also mount to the brace loads of them around.

Crofty · #137 PostAuthor: **Crofty** » Mon Sep 17, 2012 1:00 pm

Cheers will take a look

Crofty · #138 PostAuthor: **Crofty** » Fri Oct 05, 2012 3:11 pm

My forkbrace was ready to pick up today, brought it home and started to clean it up, radius the edges and will get it polished better next week. Have a 16 hour remote area first aid course to do all weekend

I went back in the shed after dinner and did a bit more, I could'nt help meself and ended up putting the wheels on, so I could move it about. Even tho I will have to take em off again to fit the rotors.
Then I thought I'd try the panels on to see if I could think what colour would look good.

Royalratch · #139 PostAuthor: **Royalratch** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 11:00 am

Not far behind you Crofty! Look awesome.

if you want, I can photoshop some colour options up for you. Just let me know what to try and I'll grab them out your photobucket and send them back to you.

Crofty · #140 PostAuthor: **Crofty** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 5:50 pm

green pearl with original type b1 striping or silver or blue metalic with c1 type stripes are options or..... too many
dont really want to go the elr, moriwaki ,z1, copy route though did consider the old kawasaki racer look, lime green white stripes black pinstripe like on the old 2 stroke and endurance racers
but think a sleeper look good, so originalelements but different

Royalratch · #141 PostAuthor: **Royalratch** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 7:15 pm

Lol, dunno what any of that is but PM me some references and I'll sort it.

Crofty · #142 PostAuthor: **Crofty** » Sat Oct 06, 2012 8:22 pm

cheers Ratch, will do gotta do some light first aid course reading now

Crofty · #143 PostAuthor: **Crofty** » Sun Oct 07, 2012 10:03 pm

First aid course done, Ratch I have pm'd a couple of colour examples.

#144 PostAuthor: **Ginger Bear** » Mon Oct 08, 2012 7:17 am

Hope you'll share the pic's.

Crofty · #145 PostAuthor: **Crofty** » Mon Oct 08, 2012 8:14 am

Will do GB, still waiting on discs, will be phoning them later this week

Crofty · #146 PostAuthor: **Crofty** » Thu Oct 11, 2012 9:06 pm

Was checking chainline yesterday and ordered a 3/8" (9.52mm) offset with one tooth extra (17) as with the smaller rear wheel and more HP it will need slightly taller gearing. Chain was just touching back of one of the footrest studs which were not installed when I did the dry build. I removed the stud and shortened it a couple of threads. ditched the nut and locktited the thing in.
Even better news is the battlax tyre gives a couple of mm more clearance than the Michelin I used in the dry build, so room to take up to 3 off the carrier till chain even gets close to the tyre.

Re the offset sprocket which turned up this morning, I am glad I did not have to go to a 5/8" offset as the chain rubbed on the back of the sprocket cover with just 3/8", I attacked the cover with the grinder and it clears OK now.
I can now see I will have to remove some more of the rear sprocket carrier to get chainline spot on, but it will be fine.

Ignore the grotty chain its an old one just for lining up.

Crofty · #147 PostAuthor: **Crofty** » Fri Nov 02, 2012 5:22 pm

Like sand in an hourglass, a few more things have moved on. The rear disc turned up a couple of weeks back and today the front ones arrived. I wasted no time in getting them bolted to the front wheel.
Happy with the way they look, quite a bit less metal in the carrier than std kawasaki, but I think they will be fine.

Front discs

Rear disc

I have also trial fitted the rear brake pedal and found I needed to space the master cylinder in slightly as the tightening of the pedal pulled the shaft through the frame a bit more and the piston rod ended up touching the frame.

Having two spacers made which will allow the rear shocks to sit straight up rather than at an angle due to swingarm mounts being a bit wider than top shock mounts, the good news is there is plenty of threads on the top mounts to allow this.
Chainline now sorted, ended up with 3 more mm off the rear carrier as off the shelf offset was slightly different to the home made one j.b. leant me. If you need it back , give me a shout and I will pop it in the post, Jim

sanderz · #148 PostAuthor: **sanderz** » Sat Nov 03, 2012 8:29 am

Good work there Crofty, over coming the problems as they arise.

Like the attention to detail being put into this :up

Any joy with the front mudgaurd search? ......and is the paint scheme a secret? - like the blue it is already to be honest :wink:

ash · #149 PostAuthor: **ash** » Sat Nov 03, 2012 8:41 am

Jim i just welded new mounts to the top to take the width of the swingarm on my z1000, lining the rear can be a bugger but with a bit of thinking and the tools to do it its quite easy, well for some,

Pigford · #150 PostAuthor: **Pigford** » Sat Nov 03, 2012 9:20 am

Crofty - why not change the torque arm to summink a bit more refined :?:

I got a length of M10 s/s studding, a bit of 10mm alloy tube and a couple of M10 ball joint thingies - and voila :wink:

Cheap & effective - and a bit lighter too :lol:

Keep at it - great stuff :twisted:

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