Welcome, Guest
Username: Password: Remember me

TOPIC:

Final pics! 21 May 2007 19:46 #142220

  • Nevco48
  • Nevco48's Avatar
  • Offline
  • User
  • Posts: 579
  • Thank you received: 3
Excellent job. To really appreciate your after photos, let's go back to a "before" shot...
Attachments:

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

Final pics! 21 May 2007 19:55 #142228

  • pumps
  • pumps's Avatar
  • Offline
  • User
  • Posts: 617
  • Thank you received: 3
It really came back didn't it Nate?
Check out our site. kcvjmc.org
1977 Yamaha XS650
2000 Kaw W650
2 KZ440 LTDs , a 79 KZ400H and an 83 Belt Drive

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

Final pics! 21 May 2007 21:09 #142253

  • N0NB
  • N0NB's Avatar Topic Author
  • Offline
  • User
  • Blue handles better
  • Posts: 1813
  • Thank you received: 19
After and before are quite the contrast.

And, yes, it really came back. I just hope he comes back after hearing the total bill! :whistle: :pinch:
Nate

Nates vintage bike axiom: Riding is the reward for time spent wrenching.
Murphys corollary: Wrenching is the result of time spent riding.

1979 KZ650 (Complete!)
1979 KZ650 SR (Sold!)
1979 KL250 (For sale)
1994 Bayou 400 (four wheel peel :D )

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

Final pics! 26 May 2007 17:05 #143736

  • N0NB
  • N0NB's Avatar Topic Author
  • Offline
  • User
  • Blue handles better
  • Posts: 1813
  • Thank you received: 19
It's finally done!

There was a stumble off idle that made it almost useless. Complete details in this 2500 RPM stumble thread .

It runs quite well, but it could benefit from 17.5 pilot jets, I believe.

I learned a lot and I'm happy it's complete.


Until next time. :pinch:
Nate

Nates vintage bike axiom: Riding is the reward for time spent wrenching.
Murphys corollary: Wrenching is the result of time spent riding.

1979 KZ650 (Complete!)
1979 KZ650 SR (Sold!)
1979 KL250 (For sale)
1994 Bayou 400 (four wheel peel :D )

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

Final pics! 26 May 2007 18:31 #143768

  • neilage66
  • neilage66's Avatar
  • Offline
  • User
  • Posts: 378
  • Thank you received: 5
Looks like a different bike...nice work Nate!!

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

Final pics! 26 May 2007 19:03 #143781

  • rstnick
  • rstnick's Avatar
  • Offline
  • User
  • Posts: 4366
  • Thank you received: 376
Good job. Looks great!
Rob
CANADA

Need a key for your Kawasaki? PM me

1978 KZ650 C2, 130K kms, Delkevic ex, EI, CVK32, PMC easy clutch, ATK fork brace, steering damper, braced swingarm, 18" Z1R front wheel.
2000 ZRX1100
2011 Ninja 250R
2005 z750s

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

Final pics! 28 May 2007 09:56 #144236

  • themachine
  • themachine's Avatar
  • Offline
  • User
  • Posts: 673
  • Thank you received: 4
WOW! that thing really shined up, looks good nate.
82 kawaski csr1000 Evolved into a streetfighter.

I love Speed! Hot Nasty Badass Speed!!!

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

Final chapter 21 Jun 2007 19:39 #151635

  • N0NB
  • N0NB's Avatar Topic Author
  • Offline
  • User
  • Blue handles better
  • Posts: 1813
  • Thank you received: 19
Well, I think I can close this one out. Two weeks ago I rode it to the owner's home and he's been riding it. It still has a stumble between 2500 and 3000 RPM which I think is due to the stock idle jets. Sometime we'll have to bump them up one size and see if that improves it.

Funny story about that bike. I was talking to the owner today and it seems he left it out at his brother's farm a week ago. Over last weekend they were at a family function and the owner asked one of his nieces whether they'd been taken for a ride on it. No was the answer. So, earlier this week he was out at the farm and told his brother to ride the bike out to the end of the lane and back before he took the girls for a ride. By the time he got back to the house his daughters were waiting. They both got a ride and one of them said, "We need a bike like that!"

I love it!

:lol: :) B)
Nate

Nates vintage bike axiom: Riding is the reward for time spent wrenching.
Murphys corollary: Wrenching is the result of time spent riding.

1979 KZ650 (Complete!)
1979 KZ650 SR (Sold!)
1979 KL250 (For sale)
1994 Bayou 400 (four wheel peel :D )

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

Final chapter 21 Jun 2007 22:07 #151679

  • dreamsofaz1r
  • dreamsofaz1r's Avatar
  • Offline
  • User
  • Posts: 123
  • Thank you received: 1
Nate,

My first bike was an SR and several friends helped me get it going. Although the bike was very short lived(totaled it less than 15 minutes after I got it out of the shop) I really appreiciated the help from friends and family(my brother Melvis whos SR knowledge is 2nd to none) to get taht bike on the road. I think they did it as much to help me as it was for their love of the KZ's, and its nice to see it still happening today. I really enjoyed the read and count this as one of the many reasons I hang around here.

Well done Sir.

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

Final chapter 22 Jun 2007 21:00 #151961

  • N0NB
  • N0NB's Avatar Topic Author
  • Offline
  • User
  • Blue handles better
  • Posts: 1813
  • Thank you received: 19
Thanks, Dreams.

Sorry to hear about your SR. They are sweet bikes and I got to ride the 650B on the highway the other night and it's sweet as well.

Don't give up! Get another basket case and get back in the game. :)
Nate

Nates vintage bike axiom: Riding is the reward for time spent wrenching.
Murphys corollary: Wrenching is the result of time spent riding.

1979 KZ650 (Complete!)
1979 KZ650 SR (Sold!)
1979 KL250 (For sale)
1994 Bayou 400 (four wheel peel :D )

Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.

Powered by Kunena Forum