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well here we go again anouther z9 to build for next year the story so far,,picked up a z900a4 with a gsxr1100 engine shoehorned into the frame but it came with a tottally rebuilt z9 lump ,so sold the suzuki lump on ebay and put the z9 lump back into the frame had to line up the front and left lower mounting and reweld them into place as they were removed to fit the suzuki lump ,so at least its looking like a zed again with the engine in the frame ,,next was to start getting some parts up together, so on to good old ebay picked up a set of upside down forks of a gsxr ,front wheel,six pot calipers ,bandit 1200 discs ,brought a starter motor from a guy close to me so went to collect it and he had a complete well nearly z9 he was breaking so brought loads from him i,e clocks, engine covers ,a mint frame and the icing on the cake a mint kerker exhaust ,,i have got to sort out a rear end now ,going for gsxr1100 as they fit in to the z9 frame with out to much messing about with dont know wether to mono shock this one yet will get the back end in there and think about it later will start posting photos when i can get my head round how your supposed to do it am know good at stuff like that anyway keep you all informed how its getting on

Sounds like Xmas came early .Good luck with it,look forward to Pics`.

That sounds interesting project znut, get yourself a photobucket account and follow the instructions on the site to post pictures,

Good luck with the project

Sounds good, just sort out the pic's please.......

going for a nice little trip up to leeds in the morning to collect a complete rear end of a gsxr 1100 picked up a near mint harris exhaust the other day so now spoilt for choice either going for the kerker or harris ,any way one of them will be for sale shortly ,watch this space, so now i have most of the main parts sorted will get on with the build this week ,,still cannot get my little head around posting pics opened a photobucket account then it all gets a little complicated for an old git like me anyway all this typing is making my finger ache so back to ebay now to try and source a few more parts

znut, you could e-mail the pictures to someone for them to put up for you.
I am volunteering if required. If you trust me you could e-mail your login and password for photobucket and i could put them up there if you prefer.


(honest) AL

thanks zorded might have to take you up on the kind offer ,going to take some more pics this week will give it anouther try and if no luck will email them to you ,thanks again for the offer,,

had a play with the bike today ,ripped out the old rear end will post pictures soon someone might like the old unit,fitted the rear end in, need to get spacers made and pivot insert,, fitted the kerker in place and think thats the pipe i will use so there maybe a nice harris up 4 grabs ,, fitted the front wheel into forks and offerd it up will have to lenghten the forks slightly but looks very nice ,,this project is going to be an intresting one in the respect i will have to make everything so out with the grinder and welder also keep looking at the 1260 pistons and block i picked up the other day descions ,desicions ,,anyway will deffo sort some pictures this week

1260 it and bring it out to the drag strip. Debbens are doing a very nice base circle grind on cams which gets 135 BHP with 1260 and its only a few hundred quid.
I dont know where abouts in Hants you are but if you need one there is a very good engineering shop just local to me who does a lot of work on these engines and these bikes in general.



AL

tempting zorded to use the 1260 kit i also picked up a set of engine casings off the same guy so will get the casings machined to take the larger liners,, will run the engine i got with the bike for next summer if its finished as that engines been rebuilt ,,as for the machining work hopefully have found a guy to do that side of it ,, cheers

old z which i built last year and my new winter project long way to go yet


more pics to follow now i have sorted getting the pics up and running

Very nice

love the front muddy

engine back in the frame with the correct mountings welded back onto frame



fitted kerker think i will stick with this rather than the harris



fitted gsxr swingarm will have to get spacers made



front end i intend to fit will need a stem made

1260 kit maybe

well thats as far as i have got so far with other things getting in the way ,,will hopefully get on with it again in a day or two

1260