Nightrider '84 KZ750 LTD Shafty Cafe

bought the kz750 last may, almost a year ago. took it as an addition to a virago xv400/535 www.chopperweb.info/forum/showthread.php...page=15&pagenumber=1 and paid just $300
1 cyl was fucked up and seller said he couldn't have found spare parts, but i checked up evil bay, there were plenty, viseco kits, cam chains, complete engines, forks etc etc
so i bought it for restoration

an idea to convert the fugly chopper into smth more decent like a cafe race came in to my head very fast, just waqnted to do it without much effort but it never goes that way

the seat unit and tank were no go for a cafe, so i decided to use a modded tank from another oldie and to make a seat unit with hump matching to the tank

sand blasted

cut apieces

started to cut off numerous mounts

bought a gpz 750 complete engine with carbies, wiring and coils for $500, gunna use its cylinder blockand pistons, the original kz's block is gunna be bored off for a big bore viseco kit and used for my other project. so one bike turned into two, story of my life!

buying and fabbing, the gasket kit, hardley pop up covers and custom made stainless fuel throats

the forks were pitted so i had to buy new ones

megaphones

the tanks widened

modifying the frame

so much crap to cut off

sand blasted

made the seat rails

a mock up

Frame bracing's gunna be next. my porn collection

well thats enough but i have more in my bucket album

and someone might be interested in my bigger project which comes to the end... soon www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/showthre...&p=404644#post404644

ready for welding

welded, tidied up with files, engine's set to check up for clearances for gassets and bracings

decided to change an original gasset for a custom one

No lack of ambition, that's for damn sure!

POPCORN!

you call it ambition i call it quickie lol kinda a mini project, fast and dirty sex with a bike

thats what i call ambition
project Hades
'95 gsf 1200
a homemade frame, efi, turbo, titanium header, ally tank, 190 kg weight
2 ys of my life and still not finished

what it says, gunna be hell for me tomorrow cutting out all these gussets

checking up clearance for header, tight fit! gunna buy a new 4 into 1 zorst then i'll decide wheather and where to brace it

meanwhile my other project Kawasooka is on the wait list... and on the jig

nice fab skills. im not surprised you cut that stock gusset out.Some of the factory welds are real nasty. I have a 80 kz750 waiting to be rebuilt and that same gusset with its terrible welding always catches my eye.

spot on Doc, weldings real nasty on jap steel frames of those years, i clean 'em up, chop off drops and sags all the way. and thanks for comments

Nice work.
Will she be a shafty still?

thanks, yup she stays shafty