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Posted: **Tue Jun 14, 2011 6:03 pm**

Started with this ropey old 1980 Z1000A4 (Mk.II)....

Stripped it, powder coating here & there, GPz forks, GSXR wheels & s/arm...

GPZ1100 head - new over sized valves & guides, gasflowed, APE idler gear conversion....

...and an Orient Express 1392cc big block (2nd hand off Rob Zed1015)..

Painted engine...

Rolling chassis with half a motor stuffed in it....

Got it finished & all bolted together. More or less as it is today....

Just need to get carbs tuned in & do a shakedown run - but been uber busy last little while :roll:

Posted: **Tue Jun 14, 2011 11:30 pm**

There's more here than there was the first time

Posted: **Wed Jun 15, 2011 6:01 pm**

Looking real good Pigford.

Can't wait to see the video of the first couple of runs :wink:

Posted: **Mon Jul 04, 2011 11:30 am**

turned out good mark..

Posted: **Mon Jul 04, 2011 2:02 pm**

Looking mighty fine. :xbou

Posted: **Mon Jul 04, 2011 5:10 pm**

Must admit - it's more or less ready bar the final sorting of getting it running right.... :!:

But life gets in the way sometimes and I have been side-tracked :roll:

.... wifey being made redundant, granddaughters 1st birthday, son & daughter borrowing money, busy at work..... :cry:

Might get a chance to look at it this weekend :twisted:

Posted: **Mon Jul 04, 2011 9:15 pm**

Keep at it Piggy............. You'll get there.

Sorry to hear about all the 'side issues' :??

Posted: **Sun Jul 17, 2011 9:59 am**

Well, Shock - Horror - Hold the front page (Mr Murdoch) :shock:

I spent an hour out in the garage with the Mk.II.

Didn't do hell of a lot (coz its raining) but I fitted a pair of "quick release" fuel line things to speed up carb setting......

Then I re-torqued the head after I ran it a few weeks back - and they needed a good 1/2 turn (30 ft/lb).

I then fitted some new Denso Iridium plugs and started the fooka up and ran it for a few minutes :!:

Theres still a weep from the front of the cam chain tunnel :cry:

and shes running weak - need the choke on full and still don't smoke :wink:

If truth be told I'm not planning to run her this year to give me time to get her sorted for 2012 :roll:

Posted: **Sun Jul 17, 2011 10:45 am**

No point rushing these things Piggy......... Take your time & get it right I say.

Let me know if you need any 'Pit crew' for 2012 :up

Posted: **Sun Jul 17, 2011 11:18 am**

Ginger Bear wrote:No point rushing these things Piggy......... Take your time & get it right I say.

Let me know if you need any 'Pit crew' for 2012

May just take you up on that Bear :wink:

Posted: **Sun Jul 17, 2011 11:22 am**

Well that's that then......... 'Team Pig' may well have just been born. :shock:

Posted: **Sun Jul 17, 2011 2:31 pm**

OINK

Posted: **Sun Jul 17, 2011 6:35 pm**

Nice work Mark :wink:

Are we going to see that beast at Santa Pod in 2012???

Posted: **Sat Mar 31, 2012 5:57 pm**

Did a bit to the Sprinter today - gonna get stuck into it over Easter .......

Just need to get it running proper like :wink:

Posted: **Sat Mar 31, 2012 10:35 pm**

Loverly stuff, have you any picture of the 900 in the back ground, or a thread? Would'nt mind a read of would you have done to that!

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Pigford - Mk.II Sprinter (monologue)

Pigford - Mk.II Sprinter (monologue)