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Ex drag bike back on the road
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2020 11:06 pm
Author: thebuelligan
Always wanted to build a Z1 turbo and at last got the opportunity.
As an ex drag bike first thing was to sort the frame and put back on a lot of the missing brackets and tabs
As I’m intending on running a ridiculously short exhaust I’ve not added back the exhaust hangers
Project is moving along quite nicely partly thanks to the COVID lockdown and working at home (every cloud and all that) and enjoying trying to locate some period race/ tuning parts
Lots done but still lots to do!
Re: Ex drag bike back on the road
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2020 11:07 pm
Author: thebuelligan
Some of the work so far
Re: Ex drag bike back on the road
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2020 11:12 pm
Author: thebuelligan
More pics to follow
Re: Ex drag bike back on the road
Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2020 11:14 pm
Author: thebuelligan
Where the frames at
Re: Ex drag bike back on the road
Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 3:55 am
Author: Philippe
Hi
very impressive and very nice work!
Keep posting !
GrtZ
Philippe
Re: Ex drag bike back on the road
Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 6:15 am
Author: Pigford
Re: Ex drag bike back on the road
Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 6:34 am
Author: r3sc
Looking Good. Keep it coming!
Re: Ex drag bike back on the road
Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 8:23 am
Author: Bill P
Lovely job
Re: Ex drag bike back on the road
Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 8:49 am
Author: deka
stunning
Re: Ex drag bike back on the road
Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 8:56 am
Author: chrisNI
Good project looking forward to seeing how this goes.
Re: Ex drag bike back on the road
Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 4:40 pm
Author: sanderz
Nice work
, now following this
Re: Ex drag bike back on the road
Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 4:43 pm
Author: thebuelligan
Few more pics of work to date Wanted to keep the draw through carb and rebuilt the original Bendix Zenith but wanted options when finally together so became the owner of a couple of Keihin carbs courtesy of Zed1015
Needed to make an adapter so combined it to locate the nitrous fogger hand cut the plates and first real stab at ally welding.
Re: Ex drag bike back on the road
Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 4:50 pm
Author: thebuelligan
Why I wanted to get this back road worthy and also to build up around early vintage parts where possible
Re: Ex drag bike back on the road
Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 5:15 pm
Author: zed1015
thebuelligan wrote:Few more pics of work to date Wanted to keep the draw through carb and rebuilt the original Bendix Zenith but wanted options when finally together so became the owner of a couple of Keihin carbs courtesy of Zed1015
Hey! small world
Great to see those carbs getting some proper use.
The bowl with jet access i made for setting up was only Lumiwelded on to avoid distortion .
Good and strong but worth a mention so you know.
Re: Ex drag bike back on the road
Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2020 8:12 pm
Author: thebuelligan
zed1015 wrote:thebuelligan wrote:Few more pics of work to date Wanted to keep the draw through carb and rebuilt the original Bendix Zenith but wanted options when finally together so became the owner of a couple of Keihin carbs courtesy of Zed1015
Hey! small world
Great to see those carbs getting some proper use.
The bowl with jet access i made for setting up was only Lumiwelded on to avoid distortion .
Good and strong but worth a mention so you know.
Very small world
Thanks for the bowl info I was planning the same to use it for set up. Made an adapter for an S&S as well which I’ll kit out with a thunder jet Hope that one of the options will do the job but suspect a Mikuni may be the eventual route lol