Z1000R-2

[RUDDY]

It's big brother will be lonely now

Keep the snakes and spiders away from it !!

Paul

[Is Vic There]

She'll be safe in the bubble

[Beastie]

Stunning!

[Is Vic There]

Gents,
As you know I bought the bike from Paul and shipped to Australia, really happy with the bike but it was missing a couple of little things to bring it back to standard
I've fitted the original shocks which I found in the US, fitted the black chrome 4-2, stripped and rebuilt the carbs and had all the engine cases repainted in gloss.
I can't stop looking at it

[Taffus]

There's a horrible inclusion on the clutch cover

[Is Vic There]

Oh, and fitted a period fork brace just because I had a new one in a box!

[garyd]

There's a horrible inclusion on the clutch cover

I thought it was a horrible '80s mural!

[G]

Fantastic,a credit to present and previous owners

[Pigford]

Looks 100% (the bike - not you!)

[swampy]

cases are mint and an inclusion is just that its part of its history. love it and look after it there a rare beast now days.

[Is Vic There]

Well, things have not gone very well over the last month or so, couldn't get the bike to run right! Thought it might have been bad fuel so drained the tank and flushed it, then moved onto the carbs, they were stripped and ultrasonically cleaned, checked and assembled. The final check was to balance the carbs and see if that would work, balanced them and still ran like a bag of spanners! One of my mates suggested we do a compression check, I argued that it would be a waste of time as the engine had just been rebuilt! Anyway we did and the reading were not good, 110,115,120,140 we thought we'd recheck these reading with another compression tool and came up with the same results +/- 1PSI, so the engine was stripped and sure enough brand new pistons were uncovered, went on to measure the bore and its basically oval, I suspect the person that measured the bore measured it at the bottom of the stroke, I have double and triple checked, got a couple of my lads at work to check and then took the block round to a customers who builds V8 engines for racing boats and everyone came up with the same results. This is why it blow oil everywhere, crankcase pressure!
So I've just ordered a 1075cc MTC piston kit from Joe Hooper in the U.S once here I can get the blocked bored and move on
While the block is off it will be blasted and repainted, the head will be stripped and checked will new valve guides, APE head bolts and heavy duty studs!

Once completed at least I'll know it has been rebuilt to spec, remember never assume always check.

[weaver]

not good I'm sure the bike didn't come cheap

[chrisw1]

I'm considering a 1075 kit for mine ........ it does blow a bit of smoke when changing down hard
Ive watched a you tube video which seems to show that they did this from new anyway .....is this normal ?

[Is Vic There]

If its just a little bit of smoke I wouldn't bother mate.

[VinnyE]

I think it is a known fault with the Z1000J and possibly Z1000R ?
The cylinder bores were not completely round and hence the piston rings could not seal properly.
I believe a rebore was the fix at the time?