vixies stupidity knows no bounds!

yup......so while i got my bike stripped down to a bare frame, de-rusted it, checked welds, added welds in places i thought needed total welding.....i got to browsing craigslist for parts.....mostly in the frontal area..........in a few hours i will have a donor bike, a 1983 GPZ750. so...heres the plan. gonna swap the front fork over, convert the 550 frame to taper bearings, a friend is gonna cut off and weld in the uni-track mount from the gpz frame and weld it to the 550's frame, install the swing arm set up and the "new" disk brakes and hooooopefuly have a rideable bike within the next few millenia. will post pix of the progress. but today......when it warms up some.....primer and paint on the frame!

ok.....now i've decided to go another direction....going to cut out and graft the rear suspension mount section of the gpz's frame to the same location of the 550's frame..before i do any cutting, can any one tell me what the rough i.d. of the lower crable frame tube is so i can go buy some steel bar stock to use as dowels?

ok, heres a pic of a mock up with the GPZ750...gonna go a different route and already got the info and paperwork to register the gpz750 with the 550 engine. gonna do things alot differently after taking meassurements and finding things don't quite work like i want them to. so i give you the base for the KGPZ575050LTDZC1

I swear I need to stay off Craigslist, I've had too many projects take a hard left turn because of something I found when trolling Craigslist.

Good luck with your new direction.

Joe

this here is my latest project along side the rat bike. and amazingly my tiny mazda towed it almost 200 miles yesterday!

Just remember the two happiest days of a boat owners life are the day they buy it, and the day they SELL it!!!!!

The only thing thats eats more ca$h is anything that has the word "aircraft" connected with it.

Boat, "bust out another thousand"...

Joe