Restoration of a Gpz 750 R1 (1982)
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2022 1:03 pm
Hello men
this time I'm going to try to restore a wreck of a Gpz750R1 from 1982.
I bought the wreck a few months ago in northern France.
It's the most horrible bike I've ever seen...and I've seen a lot of wrecks during the past ten years.
The rear part of the frame was cut off and one of the previous owners made a "bobber" out of it.
During the past months I bought some missing parts and yesterday I decided it was time to start the attempt of restoring it back to original...
Please wish me luck, I'll need it.
Just have a look at the "thing" I start from.
It's terrible, I know but this will hopefully turn into this:
It'll be a long way.
Most of the guys I know would throw the bike into the dumpster and I couldn't blame them for doing that but I'm going to give it a try and restore it.
As you can see there will be a lot of problems to solve.
I'll share my solutions with you here.
Let's start with the frame.
The rear part of the frame was cut off and I managed to obtain a complete frame without papers in Germany.
The frame costed me a 7 hour drive and a few bottles of special Belgian beer. It was for free.
I intend to cut off the rear part and weld it on my frame. I'll have to do a lot of measurements and some good welding but I'll get there.
Have a look at the horrors I've encountered sofar.
When you cut off a part of a frame, you end up with an open steel tube. How can you fill that hole? With body putty ofcourse, what else?
You need an exhaust hanger? Just weld a metal strip to the frame, problem solved!
You have no mufflers? Put two steel tubes over the collector ends and you have a loud pipe.
Can you believe this guy rode the bike like this?
I don't think those "mufflers" would rot, it's thick pipe.
In the mean time, the bike is completely taken apart.
Now I'll have to sort out the missing parts and find them.
And then I'll open the engine. Who knows what horrors I'm going to find in there?
It's not seized, I can turn it over by hand...
More news next time.
GrtZ
Philippe
this time I'm going to try to restore a wreck of a Gpz750R1 from 1982.
I bought the wreck a few months ago in northern France.
It's the most horrible bike I've ever seen...and I've seen a lot of wrecks during the past ten years.
The rear part of the frame was cut off and one of the previous owners made a "bobber" out of it.
During the past months I bought some missing parts and yesterday I decided it was time to start the attempt of restoring it back to original...
Please wish me luck, I'll need it.
Just have a look at the "thing" I start from.
It's terrible, I know but this will hopefully turn into this:
It'll be a long way.
Most of the guys I know would throw the bike into the dumpster and I couldn't blame them for doing that but I'm going to give it a try and restore it.
As you can see there will be a lot of problems to solve.
I'll share my solutions with you here.
Let's start with the frame.
The rear part of the frame was cut off and I managed to obtain a complete frame without papers in Germany.
The frame costed me a 7 hour drive and a few bottles of special Belgian beer. It was for free.
I intend to cut off the rear part and weld it on my frame. I'll have to do a lot of measurements and some good welding but I'll get there.
Have a look at the horrors I've encountered sofar.
When you cut off a part of a frame, you end up with an open steel tube. How can you fill that hole? With body putty ofcourse, what else?
You need an exhaust hanger? Just weld a metal strip to the frame, problem solved!
You have no mufflers? Put two steel tubes over the collector ends and you have a loud pipe.
Can you believe this guy rode the bike like this?
I don't think those "mufflers" would rot, it's thick pipe.
In the mean time, the bike is completely taken apart.
Now I'll have to sort out the missing parts and find them.
And then I'll open the engine. Who knows what horrors I'm going to find in there?
It's not seized, I can turn it over by hand...
More news next time.
GrtZ
Philippe