76 KZ900 upgrade

i decided to paint my forks black i thought the rims would look cool in black as well. so out came the spray can .

... ROFL!

Sorry Mark, couldn't resist for I'm laughing with you not at you.

I've run into this so many friggin times where after I spent hours prepping & buffing then whatever to change it back... It's freaking insane I tell ya. :blink:

Not to mention how many damn cans of paint I've gone through... I must think I'm made of $$$$. hahahahahaha.

OMR

i have a cobbled up mess at the back end to hold on the tail lt and plate . i took the 1st step in rectifiing it. i dug out my old fender. Rust and all, and carved it up. i think i can attatch the lt and plate to it. this will be the first draft and next winter i will get another fender and do a better job and add a zx12 Lt.

I felt it best to add a little more crank case venting since I will be running a 1327cc kit this year. So I cobbled up a vent at the kick starter hole. I will start with a hose on hear, but maybe I can just put the filter on like in the pic if it doesn’t produce any oil. I would like to find some prettier piping but this will get me started. These bikes seem to be a work in progress don’t they? Does it ever end? lol.

OMR. ... ROFL! ?? sorry i'm slow.

Damn your bike is looking mighty sweet... Envious!

You're single right? hahahahhaha
My wife is so sick of my affair with the old girl... I tell her to shut her trap and deal with it... NOTE to thyself: Divorce on the way!

BTW, received my offset sprocket (13.5mm = >1/2") 630 15 tooth from AmericanClassix all ready. I don't know why others have had bad results with these guys but they have rocked every time for me...

Extremely well designed and built. Rear sprocket and chain on the way. Figured I'll only need ~ 102 link or so but ordered 110 link just to be safe, cut and grind as required.
I'll post w/images once I get all components on the bike and aligned...

OMR

I thought i should finaly add a few updated pics.

Left side.

nice!bike turned out really well,good job.

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Thanks Banshee.
Since i got a $300 ticket for having the breather filter in the kick start cover.(for altering the emissions system). I needed to remove the filter and add venting ells ware. I cannot make it legal, but I want to try to hide the obvious. so I decided against adding 1 to the valve cover(witch I think would wok well). I decided to just increase the size of the breather cups outlet. I thought this would be the most discrete method.
Here is a pic of the stock Z1 ,and KZ breather set up. I changed to the KZ since i felt it was less likely to spit oil.

this is the newer KZ type. it has 2 levels.

I took the upper disk to work and had 2 new holes drilled and 2 nuts welded to the under side of the holes. Then I drilled matching holes in the cup. This will allow me to screw the cup to the upper plate , to hold the cup on. Then I had the cups vent hole drilled and tapped out to 5/8” NPT. I cut the nipple off the 1/2” threaded nipple so I could fit a ¾” hose over it. The nipple part was not 5/8” ID but the threaded part is. Now I will run a 5/8" or a 3/4” hose up under the tank and T off to 2, ½” hoses. Then I can run the 2 ½” hoses to the back of the bike under the seat.
The venting capacity of the inner rubber vent tubes is :
the rubber vent tubes are about .370 each. x 2 = an area of .21" total.
the stock cups vent stack tube/bolt has an id of .425" .area = .142".
the bolt hole in the case is about .260". (area= .053").(i removed this bolt so this is now more inner venting capacity.so i can add this .053" to .21" to get a total inner capacity of .253")
1/2" hose area = .196"
5/8" hoes area = .307"
here is a pic of the inners, and the cup. I found 2 rubber plumbing tap washers to fit over the new cup fastening bolts.