Z1000R and Z1000J - Lots of pics, and Gun-Kote oven baked paint.

Know how jealous I was earlier? I'm even more jealous now...

Hi RoyNor, Great project you have. Thanks for the pictures and documentation. I just got a gpz750 project and plan on using gunkote as well.

Also, Rush is awesome!! I've seen them in concert too. I would have to say "Farewell to Kings" is my favorite album.

Make sure that everything is perfectly clean for the GunKote. This is what I recommend;
After Media blasting

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1) Wash everything very well with the best "NON Alkali" degreasing detergent you can find. I prefer the "Orange" "ZEP" stile of detergent. and very hot water.
2)Spray on K-Phos and bake at 120*f for two hours.
3)Wash entire part again with Pure Acetone using a spray bottle removing all K-Phos.
4)allow to dry for about one hour.
5) re-spray with K-Phos and re-bake for 1 hour at 120*f
6) while hot, spray part with GunKote.
7)allow to dry at 120*f for 1 hour.
8)Raze temperature to 325*f and bake for one hour.
9)Viola**** you have the perfect GunKoted part.
I do not recommend GunKote for the Cases, Use a good quality enamel like "Polane-B" You can even do the covers in Polane if you so desire. Both GunKote and Polane are good choices for side covers. There are two different Polanes, one is “T” and the other is “B”. The difference is thet T is Matt and B is Gloss.

Hi folks, my ISP (internet service provider) got problems with their partner in US, so that means for me that I got big problems reaching this site. I don't reach it at all in fact.

I work around it using some "hidemyid" site, but its a really pain work with. Slow.

This started around 13 this month, and I thought that the KZR was down, but the problem was not there, and as soon everything function OK again I will update my work here.

I just have to wait, cant upload pictures until this ISP problem is solved.

Or maybe you can see it but i cant...i will try anyway

Well, i can try upload pics...
Maybe it goes OK, even it takes loooong time.


Here are the China shocks...










The name on them are NICETECT...
Dont know any more about them
But that company seems to be a manufacturer in China with many shock models.

OK, Then over to the freshly painted engine head and cylinders.



Mmmm...



















I am really satisfied with the color, what do you think guys?

Hope this problem with my ISP will end so I can use normal processes to reach KZR.

:woohoo: Looks Great Roy! What type of paint is that on the head & block? Did you bake the parts in your oven after spraying the paint? Those shocks look pretty nice also.... I'm considering a pair of Ohlin Piggybacks for my showbike or maybe Works Performance Piggyback but I'm looking at @ $1,000 so I'm not sure what to do :blink: If the performance on the ones you just bought are in the ballpark it might be a wise purchase. I'm running a pair of old shchool S&W shocks (black with babyblue colored springs) and man they are really stiff I'm a pretty light guy though (140-150 lbs). I just bought some billet bar 3/4" X 1 1/4" (6061 T6) to make struts for my 2nd KZ1000A1 I'm buillding as I needed something to tied me over until I decide on something for that bike as well. I was talking to a guy with an 02 or 03 ZRX who replaced his stock KYB's with a set of Ohlins and said the performance was waaaay better and worth the $. Keep those pics coming Roy your doing a friggin awesome job! Regards, Doug

Zedone wrote:
[quote... I'm running a pair of old school S&W shocks
(black with babyblue colored springs)....[/quote]

Interesting -- have started another thread about it.

[Moved to new thread]

The pictures in my thread looks like a mess now,,,no formatting any more, i need to fix this when my ISP works proper again, and i understand the new forum settings.


Thanks Zedone

The parts are preheated, sprayed Gun Kote on, and then baked for 1 hour.
That head just fitted the stove...like 2mm to the walls inside.

And the paint is really gloss and nice to look at.
And what's more important, really hard to remove. (i hope)

Øhlins is quality shocks, no doubt about that.
But the price on them are insane.

So i will try these "Chinashocks", they look nice, and i think they are better then some old ones anyway.

BUT:

They are around 1-1.5 inch smaller then the ELR shocks, and 1000j shocks are around same length.

3.5 inch before you screw on something in the bottom.

With that eye (don't recall the English word for that)in the bottom half way in, they are 310mm long.



So i don't know, i don't like the idea lowering down the bike that much?
Any suggestions about that? Drastically worse improvement of the bike? Hmm.

guitargeek wrote:

Know how jealous I was earlier? I'm even more jealous now...

hehe

Tony wrote:

Hi RoyNor, Great project you have. Thanks for the pictures and documentation. I just got a gpz750 project and plan on using gunkote as well.

Also, Rush is awesome!! I've seen them in concert too. I would have to say "Farewell to Kings" is my favorite album.

Thank you Tony!

Jah, the older Rush are my favourites to, with 2112 as the for now being favourite

what about building some adaptors that screw into the shock then screw the eye(rod end) into the adaptor?maybe.