Thrown together to ride til winter

Ok, I am green I get to put the dyna in this weekend and I am sure my brother had the carbs off when he was messing with it before I bought it. he hasnt said he has I was just hoping more than anything so theoretically I can ride it down the road if I get it all put back together less tank still have graphics to paint. I;m sure there is a tank at jims shop where I have it. Text him some pics of the paint he is getting excited too. so we show up saturday at 8 i got 4 hours before he closes plenty of time. the carbs are off and apart. on the bench






Thankful as I was I hoping to ride down the road if possible no biggy it needed to be done. i am 150.00 over my budget and now to pay him to do the carbs or even to buy kits not only was it not in the budget my bike kitty was non existant. put the dyna in made sure that i marked everything when I took the old one out got it wired put the triples back on the headlight bucket and sat a tank he had laying around sat on it tiptoed as I was. I thought ok struts make it as low as I want remove the back fender shown earlier put the taillight in the fin I can have this done by next weekend surely its only May I got a month. I put the tach cable on the speedo cable I ordered from Z1parts.net was too short. minor setback went to Jims cycle an old school bike boneyard got a new cable 18.00 i'm good 168.00 over budget. Buddy Jim has a Honda V45 he swapped motors on and had in primer I told him I had enough silver left I will take it with me and paint it give me a chance to do some airbrushing before I did mine.

No ride today hoping carbs get done soon and in the mean time I gotta make struts paint his tank and side covers and tail fin gotta big week coming up so I get home get started on the honda stuff and and UH OH dont have a headlight and the carb pods. the ones my prother sent with the side covers would fit over my head and dry rotted so Z1 enteprise here I come. Never believe someone who hands you something in primer and says all you gotta do is scuff it and shoot it spent all day sunday getting it ready for the silver but I dont have to work monday and what was gonna be finishing my bike has become working on the buddies stuff. I painted the silver dugout my airbrush taped some flames off and went to work I have silver metalflake green and some really old bottles of airbrush water based paint







I text him a few pic's he loved it said the carbs were on him. I really wasnt epecting it because my bike has sat at his shop I have used his tools he hooked me up with rightside switch controls he recently dug out to get rid of my micro switch start button got me a deal on a AGM sealed battery for 20 bucks I got excited and spent another 50.00 bucks on ebay and Z1 for pods and a headlight on the meantime sold some stuff I had laying around and takeoff parts so now I am only 100.00 over budget only thing I can think of is making a bracket and mounting my taillight.

Tuesday I got off early went to cut some struts at my brothers garage got em drilled went by the shop drilled top holes to small so did some headlight wiring with an old honda headlight. the wiring on this bike has been spliced cut taped anything you can molest it has been molested. (one reason it didnt bother me with the throw together) well needless to say averytime I tried to the high beam blew a fuse spent the rest of the day with thst never got it
looked on ebay found sone honda 550 nighthawk shocks with a make offer i offered 15.00 delivered he countered with 18 i bought em they were about 2 inches shorter than mine. I can go back to the aluminum struts at a later date fabricating and polishing wasnt in the cards for the next couple weeks I have a paint job to finish

gengomerpyle wrote: i want to switch from stock electronics someday down the road.
did you have to do any rewiring?

clutch wrote: @gengomerpyle: The instructions made it fairly easy. I was switching from stock electronic ignition to Dyna-S, so I'm not sure how much more might be involved switching from points. It shouldn't be bad either way though.

Very minimal. Not really wiring, just bypassing the stock pickup wires and basically connecting everything else.

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Nice! Want to paint mine too for more practice? :woohoo:

Thanks I did his entire paint scheme before I attempted my graphics

Ok short shocks are on ordered a small led taillight with the signals built in its pretty cheasy but looks like I can mount it under my tail fin it's contour looks close from the internet shots and I gotta bleed the front brakes plenty to keep me busy have to put the new right side housing on got the pods with me its nothing but rain for last few days and not letting up now when I pull in my carbs are going back on Daddy always said if you wait on the weatherman you will never ride so a trip down the street is in my blood!!!

loce the green grips 9.00 delivered

few pic's of the headlight
The Superman Logo has always appealed to me and my original Idea was for a Superman S Ghosted under the grean and I nicked named my project Kryptonie I wasn't able to do that on my first paint scheme due to my deadline and 1000.00 promise to my girl so I came up with the idea to put an S on the tank with some skulls behind it Still I havent airberushed anything except for some black shadows on Jim's Honda paint that got my carbs built and I wasnt happy they looked like I hadnt painted in 20 years. after I dropped his tank off his buddy Charlie used yo own a Moto-Guzzi dealership commisioned me to paint a tire cover for his van he liked the pic's of mine and the flames I did on Jims so ok will do more for the Bike Kitty after buying some airbrush colors it reduces my over budget to about 30.00

This is what I come up with not great but I have the colors to do mine now by the way he loved it sold the Van and kept his tire cover takes it with him to Moto-Guzzi Rallies (he is in his 80's) and still rides

I am getting so close Time to get busy on finishing my paint

Ok it raining and I'm broke today so I am gonna continue the saga I am sure aI will leave alot of stuff out and backtrack as this has been a whirlwind project I'm posting from memory until we get upto where I am now

on rightside I had to swap out throttle cable with one he had laying around the right side controls were from a 750 took way longer than I wanted using a single pull (was Already set up that way and I like it less cables hanging out the front. there are 3 bikes sitting there grab a tank and fire it up 2 weeks ahead of schedule well ok I said I would be riding in 2 weeks and just know hearing it run for the first time correctly I hope.

doesnt detur me I am an optimist it's even quit raining only bout an hour before he closes ( I could hold him up but after all he has done that would be major disrespectful this is his job and my hobby)

ok not a petcock on a tank. WTF? couple pit bikes that run his son says noway you arent taking the tank off I am about to understand the term Going POSTAL!! he has a rearend grease bottle he puts gas in to fill the bowls and fire bikes up I am IN lets do it go grab the battery charger it seems my headlight wiring drained the battery but fill the bowls pull the choke hit the button and I'm not sure but I may have messed myself IT's ALIVE grab the digital thermometer check the pipes they are all comming up to temp. YESSS!

Pull the clutch in put it in gear it will atleast pull I have to have a tank. so jims son grabs some fuel line an aluminum drink bottle drill and in 20 minutes I got a quart gas tank rigged to the handlebar and absolutely no gas. The filler bottle is empty he is closing in 20 minutes and his gas can is at his house something about getting his jetski running

I am not handling this very well so I go to the gas station buy a quart of gas being sure to turn my back to the clerk. hang it back on the handle bar fire it up and off I go!! Trans clutch all runs smooth I cannot believe it. 500.00 bike couple hundred in parts and it runs out

ok I am definately on schedule oh yeah I forgot new wires I still have those miss matched car wires on it. Calling Dyna Monday

still havent bled the front brake but back brake works good not going too far with no bodywork no tailight and an aluminun contraption leaking gas from my handlebar

I bought a 26000.00 harley in 04 and here I am sitting on this 500.00 rusty no tank birds nest wiring nightmare with one brake cheesing like the cat that ate the canary.

ok so its time to go home and paint I cant wait.




Start layin the skuls out with white and white pearl and black


use somr copper pearl and yellow



Mask and paint the S with some dirty graphiti techno nor sure look I'm painting and hoping

I decides I liked the lines so i taped up the emblems stuck them on and painted the graph through them. I was on a role I would have kept painting until i Truly made it look like shit If my girl would have said thats enough

I still love the ghost effect so I had to try it I took some white pearland misted the superman S through the emblem area


leti dry and clear it






Ok I didn't get much sleep and my yard barn looks like a hurricane went through it but I am pretty pleased with the tank now I only have the tail fin and side covers to do

do my usual after work stop to check in on her didnt bring the tank I still need to color sand it and jim happens to have a buffer someone gave him and he gives it to me. I got enough time to bleed that front brake and maybe even another trip down the street

The battery is dead again not that big a deal it has sat couple months and me draining it with the birds nest headlight wiring put it on charge bleed the brake without any success probably gonna have to rebuild the master cylinder but no biggy I still got a ton to paint I fire it up after a few minutes on the charger and the 2nd Kick head for home it's an hour driv.

Ok Kryptonite theme and my girls obsession with skulls has me thinkin skulls down the fin with an exploded Superman S and the name kryptonite sounds pretty cool. got plenty of time to plan before I get home using what i learned from the tank I hope to knock it out of the park. only prob with doing this kind of paint work is its all pearls and transparents and to get the same effect they need layered the same and since I mixed my own colors if I have to remix I may be screwed like I said too much time to think

get home kiss the girl pet the dog wolf down a bite and get started i gotta week and I hit my goal
start laying out the tail fin







put a white base down went back in with black

Didnt take many shots throughout the process but another sleepless night and time to Clear it

I havent buffed anything in 20 years either so I am extremeley intimidated by the color sanding a buffing process but I can always repaint it right? well now I gotta do the side covers in the mean time on my way home I take my tank put it on the bike and everone is ooh and ahh ing and pointing out the defects they way only your friends can do. i run down get some gas yes I brought a can this time put the gas in it fire it up and off I go still no tail light but i'm just running aroung the neighborhood 12 blocks from the local police station it seemed like every corner had a cop sitting at it and the vance and hines with no baffle draws attention even when you dont want it to so back to the shop I go my priority is mounting that cheasy taillight I got because June 1st is next weds less than a week away I try and bleed the front brake one more time before I leave and head for home the tail fin is plenty dry enough to colorsand or mount a light in and I got side covers to paint.

I just dont like that tail light cant seem to get it to sit right it just isn't the look I want too cheasy too cheap not sure but it just isnt right. I love the LED taillights they are so bright had em on my Harley my brother has been designing taillights for his harley buddies I know I can always mount my old one but I want it cool I might as well mask off the side covers

OK this is where over thinking and over painting has bit me in the behind the side covers look great especially since they were nasty and I mean nasty when I started but no I gotta put an S and the name on them



should have left them just like this

but anyway I mask them and keep going










Paint work is done a little rushed but I am starting to feel good about by abilities with my winter set will rock (In my mind)

with the paint done still needing a mastercylinder rebuild I am in town on saturday gonna rig up my tail light and ride my girl says lets tun by JIms cycle (boneyard) he probably has one. the thing about jim's if you dont have the old one with you they have so much stuff they arent sure what they have. we swing by anyway they have one like the one I already sold on ebay he want 60.00 bucks because it has been rebuilt and quite frankly it looks to big for the superbars without the old one cant inquire about a rebuild because I dont have numbers and really dont know what it came off of. we are walking past the bone yard that just has a cable between the street and the bones. Laying at my feet was an 80's nighthawk 550 taillight assy it looks like it would be exactly what I wanted so back in I go 20.00 and I am on my way to fix me a tailfin taillight when I get to the shop attach a couple brackets it's the look I want my tailfin doesnt have a glove bosx so shooting a couple screws through it wont hurt anything.

I walk in bragging about my find and my buddy Jim says I think the brake fluid is making your paint lift on the tank. I went over and there is a small spot bottom edge of the lip I am not worried about. but it seams that master cyinder has decided to leak worse than the titanic after hittin the iceburg. he has a rag wrapped around it and it is soaked,I clean it up best I can and notice a much bigger bubble in the paint just above the petcock big enough it has to be fixed.

my cheesy chines tail/brake light vs what I had pictured in my mind? why not use both so geab a screwdriver take the led light apart and the oem light apart the circuit boart is slightly wider than my screw posts but its just the mounting area no circuitry rthe easily trimmed. now just remove the light socket cut a few grooves in the posts silicone it in run the wires use the grommet and waalaa now I have an awsome updated tail light with turnsignals

In IN they dont give you a plate at the license branch the give you a form to carry with you if you get pulled over and mail you the plate my plate wasnt in yet so I grabbed an old one to fabricate my mount with and wire it up.






took the pic with everything loose it looks crooked, and even though My new Dekka Battery has been on charge by the time I got it wired didnt have much juice left. I am begiining to think my friend deal on a new AGM battery might not have been such a deal. its not june yet I am painted and running have a few minor things to take care of need a mastercylinder and reapait the bubbled paint No reason I cant be riding by the first weekend in june. Right??