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Yea me too..where did u find that exhaust David? I thought I read you ot it off of eBay.?????

No,There was a really clean one on ebay but I got gazumped at the last minute. This one was from a guy from the Z1OC in England. Its a good pipe,very solid with no rot but the chrome is pitted in places and a bit scruffy. On any other bike,no problem but with all the time and energy (and money) ive spent on cleaning/polishing/powdercoating/painting/anodising this bike, I think it lets it down a bit. Ideally,I would love to have it stripped and ceramic coated ( I always hoped for a black pipe) or even rechromed,but Ive not had any luck finding somewhere to do it.So it stays as is for now and either ill get it refinished or find a nice replacement further down the line.
A Motogpwerks pipe would do me nicely and I was looking for prices the other day,which led to........
www.kzrider.com/forum/13-bike-related/603033-im-a-bit-confused
Anyway,time and economic considerations dictate that I go with the Harris as is.

What a strange concept. Whingeing about having to make do with a genuine 1980s Harris 4into1 in solid condition (and with a race baffle)!!!!

I need to get out more!

Dayum that's looking so good!
I just went back to the beginning of your thread and whoa has your bike come a long way man!

Yeah, no whining about having cool toys the rest of us are salivating over I'm sure if you really must get rid of that pipe, there's several mailing addresses here in the USA that would be happy to see it

Haaaaaa yea wrench...I'd be up for it....but Dave I'm sure you'll get er on the same level as the rest of the bike,but she's still BC sweet..

Thanks boys. Wrenchmonkey,you deserve a medal for going back through the whole thread. Its a long time since Ive done that.Though,youre right ,a big difference twixt then and now. Im looking forward to posting some before/after photos when its all finished.
Anyway,its been a pretty productive weekend. Today I got the brake calipers rebuilt and fitted.A real pleasure opening all the packets Ive had sitting in boxes for months Rebuild kits fore and aft.Stainless pistons throughout.Sweet!

Being me though,I cant find any of the M/C internals and I didnt order rebuild kits! So, Ill do that now and hopefully have them before the weekend. Then I can get the first juices flowing through the bike and get the brakes bled.
I also made a start on the spaghetti

I still have to order a crimp tool to fit the bullet connectors.Ill do that this week as well.
So,all in all,Im happy with how things are going because they are going,which is the main thing.
Stay tuned.

Nice work David! I think we've talked about this previously - just so long as you can take one step each day, no matter how little or insignificant it may seem at the time, eventually they all compile into a job well done and you are certainly doing a great job man!
I love looking at all the goodies spread out on the bench. Makes me feel like Golum, greedily rubbing my hands together at the sight of the ring he covets so.

Your build has given me encouragement to tackle my 1k-CSR with an eye toward more than the stock resto as I always have done in the past. I really like how much the attitude of the bike changes with the custom work you're doing.

you could always bead blast and paint the harris pipe.

i painted the kerker on my 80 z1r and have been pleased with the result.





bikes is lookin killer,keep us posted.

leon

531blackbanshee wrote: you could always bead blast and paint the harris pipe.


i painted the kerker on my 80 z1r and have been pleased with the result.

bikes is lookin killer,keep us posted.

I have access to a blast cabinet with glass bead media ( I think) I tried blasting the startermotor cover and the headlight bowl but I wasnt able to strip the chrome off it, just rough it up enough for powdercoating. Not sure that I would trust it to give enough key for regular ( HT) paint on the exhaust. On top of that,once I put it in the cabinet,theres no going back.Blasted is blasted.If I cant get a good finish,its buggered!

leon

bead blasted and painted plenty chromed stuff and never had a problem.
once the shine is gone the paint will hold.
been my experience fwiw,

leon

Good to know ,Leon. I will think on it. It does seem like a cheap and cheerfull way to go. Ill look into what HT paint is available in Europe. (Im having second thoughts about the PJ1 I used on the engine)

nice thing is, touch ups are cheap ...

keep us posted man!

leon

Well Leon,you got me thinking. I decided to forget about the pipe and leave it as is for now.T o just get the build finished and maybe come back to it later.
But,Ive always thought,that ceramic coating would be the best way to go. Goodbye shiny (but pitted) chrome,hello nice black pipe with a durable heatproof finish.
So ive been looking into this.Theres a place in England (postage!!) that does 'Cerakote'.
www.cerakotehightemp.com/
Which some may be familiar with as a gun coating.
and theres a place here in Holland that does 'Zircotec',
www.classiccarpartshelden.nl/wordpress/c...ng/zircotec/?lang=en
which is something similar. So, Ive got to get in contact with them and see what sort of money is involved.