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This bike has been sitting for 8 years. I did most of the work then. A ground up restoration. I left it outside for a year in the Chicago winter, bad idea. I never got it running quite right in 99. I put the vance&Hines headers on it, Dana ignition w/coils, Pods and didn't get the jetting quite down. I think I should be running 105,s and a 17.5 pilot. Somehow I put 117's in it before i parked it. Running a wee bit rich. Funny how just sittning for so long wrecks the bike, oh well. Back to the drawing board.

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Aside from the surface rust, it doesn't look like it should take all that long to bring it back to a presentable and rideable condition.

You should have seen my ZN700 right after I rescued it from sitting outside in the high desert area for almost 10 years - gunk, dirt, mud, more gunk, rust, grease, oil, did I mention gunk?
The cap on the fuel tank was corroded so badly onto the tank, I thought it was locked!

With Mark Wings outstanding painting skills and my luck in locating replacement parts, it looks a whole lot better now in my (biased) opinion.



Just take your time, she'll be a good lookin' runner again soon.

Post edited by: RetroRiceRocketRider, at: 2007/05/01 22:18

I just picked up an 80 Gpz750 head for $20.00 on ebay. I have a 77 and a 79 motor I will do the 810 Wisco kit on one of them. I think that will be my project next year. I'm just going to clean this up a bit and have some fun. It has been 8 long years.