Nelson's KZ1000 Fighter? build

If there's too much drag it will spin the starter and you will hear the starter whining.
You shouldn't have to resort to going that far though if you use your judgement now while the cover is off.
If you can move the starter clutch gear anti clockwise by hand with fairly light pressure it is ok.
If it is very hard to move or locks solid when the rotor bolt is tightened then you need to reduce the thickness.
The damper is only there to keep the starter gear from floating about too much and rattling.

If needed, from FSM:



Good Fortune!

thanks everyone! I think it's probably fine the way it is. It just bugs me a bit. Dumb design. It's robbing precious power too :ohmy: well a really tiny bit anyway.

Well it's been a year and a half since my last post. Is anyone still interested in my project? It's been on hold due to many major life changes, but I've finally worked on it again.

A couple months ago I started it up for the first time!! Here's a video of it running.

Since shooting the video I have finished assembling 99% of the mechanical stuff and started prepping the body parts for paint. No pics yet, but coming.

I checked for resistance in all the wires on the harness and replaced some connectors. Mostly it was all still OK.
What is this thing? It looks fried. It's on the wiring harness under the tank. Think I should replace it?

That's your brake light sensor that lights up your brake light on your dash.

thanks, now I know that I don't care about replacing it.

Finally got started on the paint job!!
Primer





Silver metallic

masking stripes and lettering



mocking up a swoopy thing

Nelson wrote: Got the motor in today! yay! It's starting to look like a motorcycle now. Unfortunately I got quite a few bad scratches in the paint on my frame I put several layers of masking tape on the frame, but it did NOTHING to prevent damage.

I felt like no-talent hack after that...

Attachment engineInstalled2.JPG not found

atleast its paint and not powder coated,easy to scuff the area and shoot some paint on it.

I found out I could not make sharp points with the fine line tape. So I stuck regular tape to a piece of glass and traced the shape on it, Then cut with razor blade and ruler. This worked well except the transition from the fine line tape to regular tape was a bit tricky.

I have no idea if a pro would do it this way. Just makin it up as I go along :laugh:
I painted several cars and motorcycles about 25 yrs ago and was able to do nice work. As I work on this I realized I forgot a lot of little tricks and re-learned them the hard way
The modern paint materials cost WAAYY more than back then, so oops I made a mistake and there goes $50. Oops another... etc. Very annoying. I spent about $240ish on materials for this one bike. I used to be able to do 2 whole cars for that! Damn EPA and their overbearing regulations