The Z900A4 I "stole"
Posted: Fri Nov 24, 2017 10:11 pm
After 5 years I've decided to restore the Z900A4 i stole off my mate in 2012, I posted the story back then, but briefly, my mate owned the bike from about 1984 it was black with pink fish scales sorta painted on it (WTF). i remember the day he bought it. He diced it up a bit over the years until about 2000 when he parked it in his garage and his wife hung the washing on it. I tried with no avail to buy it. increasing my offer as the years went on.
In 2012 "bang" literally his boiler blew up and he phoned me to repair it. I told him he needed a new gas boiler instead of his old oil one and I would do it for mates rates of £1500, in short he had no money and after his wife nagging the shit out of him for a week the bike was delivered to my house with a note on it. get me some heat or my wife moving in with you.
The pictures are kind to the bike and over the last 5 years I've had lots of other projects to do, but the odd time I'd spend some time on the Zed. Engine has been stripped and vapour blasted, carbs been sonic cleaned and rebuilt, frame been stripped and repaired, (rotten shock mounts, anyone else had that problem?) and frame repainted.
I've been gathering parts up as budget allowed but am still short airbox and silencer (one fitted is a retro from Z power i think of an earlier model) and a standard swing arm, I'm going to build with the JMC at the moment and keep looking for a standard as I go.
When stripped the engine it had a big bore kit in it Rebored and redone crank and all bearing and bushings
Heres some photos of it when I got it, the pics are kind to it, Ill keep this thread going as I progress.
Glav[
In 2012 "bang" literally his boiler blew up and he phoned me to repair it. I told him he needed a new gas boiler instead of his old oil one and I would do it for mates rates of £1500, in short he had no money and after his wife nagging the shit out of him for a week the bike was delivered to my house with a note on it. get me some heat or my wife moving in with you.
The pictures are kind to the bike and over the last 5 years I've had lots of other projects to do, but the odd time I'd spend some time on the Zed. Engine has been stripped and vapour blasted, carbs been sonic cleaned and rebuilt, frame been stripped and repaired, (rotten shock mounts, anyone else had that problem?) and frame repainted.
I've been gathering parts up as budget allowed but am still short airbox and silencer (one fitted is a retro from Z power i think of an earlier model) and a standard swing arm, I'm going to build with the JMC at the moment and keep looking for a standard as I go.
When stripped the engine it had a big bore kit in it Rebored and redone crank and all bearing and bushings
Heres some photos of it when I got it, the pics are kind to it, Ill keep this thread going as I progress.
Glav[