Zed 900 road racer .

[nw66]

Sweet

[Pigford]

Patience is a Virtue lad

You could always spend the time trying to grow some new hair

[stempy]

Take it easy Rob ,think about the next project

[paul doran]

best wishes and a speedy recovery Rob

[zpower]

Hi Rob,

I have been watching this thread for a long time and loving it.

Your a clever bloke and I would buy a lot of the bits you have made for this project.

Hope your bloody eye sight improves soon as I really want to see what more you have planned.

Get well soon (very soon as I want more pics )

Phil.

[RALPHARAMA]

I have have just read this thread and was gutted it comes to a stop

I hope you're feeling well soon and can conclude this awesome build. I am a time served airfame and systems fitter and I was amazed at what you did with the front mudguard - truly astonishing. You have really inspired me and it's time I stopped restoring bikes and got on with a proper build!

[zed1015]

Thanks for everyone's concerns.

The stop is only temporary and believe me i really want to get on with the build asap.

The eyesight thing has really thrown me and i have to wait several months to see if it settles before I can find a solution.

I picked up a pair of cheapo quid specks at Tesco's for reading and typing so I hope to make a start on rebuilding the carbs soon.

Big thanks to Geoff (Z1parR) for donating a carburettor back plate so I now have something to bolt them to.

Will post a pic of some carb parts so it looks like there's some progress

[Jay1969]

Yeah come on you old fart, get on with it

[coldsummer]

Good luck Rob, I hope your health improves quickly. Your technical contributions to this site are outstanding and I'm sure appreciated by all of us.

[weaver]

good luck,hopefully things will settle down soon

[zed1015]

A few carb pic's as promised.
Getting prepared for the carb rebuild.


First pic shows modified cable bracket which now takes the std zx10r cables i'm using.
A much better solution than having to make one off cables every time they need changing.


The original fuel tee's were dried up and loose and also set up for twin feeds.
I've turned up some snug fitting alloy, Viton 'o' ringed big bore replacements and converted to a large bore single feed to match the single fuel tap.
The internal fuel passages to the carb float needles have also been enlarged to take full advantage of these



With the carbs being bored out, the needles need lifting to compensate as they now sit lower in the needle jet.
Exact carb bores are now 29.4mm so needles need lifting half of the 3.4mm increase = 1.7mm.
By a stroke of luck the needles are sprung loaded with a plastic spacer either side of the clip.
Top spacer is 2.5mm and bottom spacer is 0.8 so as if by magic swapping the spacers over gives the 1.7mm lift I need.



The actual bodies I'm using are GS750 which have both fuel and air screws so i'm replacing all the internals with GS1000 keyster kits and i've also sourced a GS1000 ledar air corrector kit for when I fit the bellmouths .

[KeithZ1R]

Back in the ring Lad... good show

[Jay1969]

Wizard through and through, top man you are Rob

[Royalratch]

Awesome to see this back on the track.

[ROZZER]

Just read right through this build and frankly I'm gobsmacked, nice to see yer back at it mate, I can't wait see this one through to completion.

I'm gonna be off work for months from 28th Oct so I need plenty to read, so all you projects boys come on and ramp up the builds