Z1R Custom

04 ZX6 frontend.
What are you doing wjth the parts you are taking off?
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Jeff

The bike on the lift I was using to mock up has been wrecked and has bent forks, The Z1R forks I'm going to sit on right now but give me a few days to think about it. I really want to see if the usd's give me the look I'm after and I should know by the end of the week. Actually concidering making new trees to accept the kz forks but wider to accept the ZX wheel and brakes.

With that different shaped tank then the KZ900, will be interesting to see how the fork tubes to tank clearance end up...

Me likey....

Your on with the tank clearence OMR, The stock forks are real close to the tank but I'm going to rake the frame and limit steering travel and by changing the whole neck I can space the distance out a little If needed. Right now I'm doing all the test work on a 78 kz 1000 that has been wrecked but not tweaked. I've had all the body work on the kz frame and with the exception of the seat rails and tail section it's pretty much the same mounting so I feel safe with transfering the results to the Z1R frame when debugged.

I have to follow this one. My next project is a z1r too

no wonder i cant find a cheap/complete z1r ,everybodys chopping them up! :woohoo:

les holt wrote:

The swingarm in the pic is donating it's life to research. That was one of my original arms built almost 20 years ago for an ltd 750. I managed to cut and weld on that thing for 3 hrs getting that shock in a good location for complete travel. So far I've been able to adjust both preload and compression rate just by changeing mounting holes for the actuator arms and lower shock mount. By totally doing away with the ZX6 hardware I was able to start with a clean slate. After much pondering I figured all it did was to amplify the springs travel rate. This is my setup to experiment with how it works now.

Understand that isn't the finished parts, just mockup parts to get the design to function as it did on the ZX6.

I really like your approach of learning exactly how the geometry of the single shock works rather than resorting to guesswork and just welding something on your bike and counting on luck to make it work right. Good planning is really important in a quality build. Keep up the good work. Ed

I have to follow this one. My next project is a z1r too

Oh yea of little faith PLUMMEN, I am aware of the rareity of the Z1R and I paid some good coin for this due to the fact it was an unmolested chassis only to get it here and the rear peg holders have been chopped off. To calm you real heartfelt guys down I'll tell you now, I'm putting the Z1R body parts on the KZ frame and the Z1R frame is going into storage till I can get all the parts together to build a complete one or buy a complete one. Here's a pic of one a friend built back in 92. Believe it or not but the only frame mod on this thing was a 5 deg. rake
This was a real 78 Z1R turbo, it had perfect paint that was actually put on another Z1R turbo that had paint damage but had less than 2000 miles on it. Ended up in West Virginia doing 1/8 mile dirt dragracing.

I was buzzing thru the camera this morning and found a pic of the header I'm runningB)

Some assembly required.:woohoo:

i can not wait to see how this turns out.
something about z1r's really bring the folks outta the woodwork.:laugh:

keep us posted this should be great,

leon

les holt wrote:

Oh yea of little faith PLUMMEN, I am aware of the rareity of the Z1R and I paid some good coin for this due to the fact it was an unmolested chassis only to get it here and the rear peg holders have been chopped off. To calm you real heartfelt guys down I'll tell you now, I'm putting the Z1R body parts on the KZ frame and the Z1R frame is going into storage till I can get all the parts together to build a complete one or buy a complete one. Here's a pic of one a friend built back in 92. Believe it or not but the only frame mod on this thing was a 5 deg. rake
This was a real 78 Z1R turbo, it had perfect paint that was actually put on another Z1R turbo that had paint damage but had less than 2000 miles on it. Ended up in West Virginia doing 1/8 mile dirt dragracing.

i aint worried! :laugh:
ive got enough stuff to keep me occupied for next 20 plus years without touching same project twice,now that im retired me and the wife have been doing our weekend runs running up/down the highways hitting all the antique stores in a 200 mile radius.

i spotted what looks like 62-64 ford f600 truck in a town in missouri sitting in a field .saturday which wouldnt normally be a big deal but this one had what looked like a marmon/harrington 4x4 conversion done on it,my wife has gotten used to 20 mile side trips down the dirt roads in the middle of nowhere with me chasing my tail! :woohoo: