Z650 with a Modern twist

GIMPieZ650 · #16 PostAuthor: **GIMPieZ650** » Fri Aug 01, 2014 3:52 pm

More progress has been made, made the rear torque arm out of a simple piece of aluminium flat bar, rear brake has been bled and is now fully functional, rear sets are finally mounted with the rear master cylinder and HRC fluid reservoir.

Done more work on the wiring and mounted a few little things like the horn/ flasher relay and starter solenoid etc.
Headlight and brackets are also mounted and wired up.

And mounted the modified Xj600 diversion front mud guard

And has a very exciting delivery this morning

freddyz1r · #17 PostAuthor: **freddyz1r** » Fri Aug 01, 2014 8:24 pm

Those carbs look gorgeous ( and a break from the norm:?: ) :drool

have you mounted the calipers at the front :?:

keep up the good work, cheers freddy :up

GIMPieZ650 · #18 PostAuthor: **GIMPieZ650** » Fri Aug 01, 2014 11:37 pm

Cheers Freddy, yeah calipers mounted infront of the fork legs as a hark back to the original z650 and z1, some reservations as to whether it will work properly but we'll see

Jay1969 · #19 PostAuthor: **Jay1969** » Sat Aug 02, 2014 9:10 am

Great progress Dan, nice new upgrade's, your project is very interesting :up

Pigford · #20 PostAuthor: **Pigford** » Sat Aug 02, 2014 9:14 am

GIMPieZ650 wrote:Cheers Freddy, yeah calipers mounted infront of the fork legs as a hark back to the original z650 and z1, some reservations as to whether it will work properly but we'll see

I know the smaller pistons usually "lead", but those calipers are bloody powerful and should work great - just give it a go lad :wink:

GIMPieZ650 · #21 PostAuthor: **GIMPieZ650** » Sat Aug 02, 2014 4:48 pm

Removed the lower front engine mounts this morning ready to collect the 1100UT tomorrow morning, can't wait, its like Christmas day but nobody's fighting... :lol:

GIMPieZ650 · #22 PostAuthor: **GIMPieZ650** » Sun Aug 03, 2014 6:44 pm

Just got back with this beautifully well looked after 1100UT engine

Just got to unbolt all the other bits and pieces from it, anyone need any Unitrak parts?

GIMPieZ650 · #23 PostAuthor: **GIMPieZ650** » Mon Aug 04, 2014 12:55 am

Engine removed and beginning the strip down

Nearly ready to split the cases and remove the crank ready for it to be sent to Ray Debben for welding/balancing

GIMPieZ650 · #24 PostAuthor: **GIMPieZ650** » Mon Sep 29, 2014 5:39 pm

So as you can probably tell, this ones been on hold for a little while due partly to me working too many hours yet still not having enough money (can't work this one out... :shrug ) and I've been messing around with a couple of 'daily riders'

Top yoke is done and is beautifully made, fitted the bars to it and then decide to fit the (empty) engine back in to see how it looks and begin to find out where this will fit around it... was going to mock up some engine mounts but got to excited and zip time my dads old V&H pipe to it, fits very well and nearly made me sex wee my pants, looks like I've got some persuading to do .

Pigford · #25 PostAuthor: **Pigford** » Mon Sep 29, 2014 6:09 pm

Comin' along nicely lad :twisted:

sanderz · #26 PostAuthor: **sanderz** » Mon Sep 29, 2014 7:43 pm

Pigford wrote:Comin' along nicely lad

Yep, second that. Stick with it GIMPie :up

Gus · #27 PostAuthor: **Gus** » Mon Sep 29, 2014 9:27 pm

That pipe runs beautifully.

Get the old man drunk

Gus

GIMPieZ650 · #28 PostAuthor: **GIMPieZ650** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 10:32 am

Thanks guys and Gus, you said it, the pipe just looks... Right :lol:

GIMPieZ650 · #29 PostAuthor: **GIMPieZ650** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 11:47 pm

Again no real work has been done but I put on the b1 green paint set just to see how it looked and then thought I'd offer up the FCR's and have found out I will need to use a pingle tap as the FCR's foul on the stock one

Crofty · #30 PostAuthor: **Crofty** » Wed Oct 01, 2014 6:11 pm

Taking shape nicely

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