82 kz1000 ground up build

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Re: 82 kz1000 ground up build

05 Jun 2024 08:15
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I love the paint and wheel colour combo - "Dark" brown could work 

 
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Re: 82 kz1000 ground up build

05 Jun 2024 08:32
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Please, please... PLEASE don't put a brown seat on it!        
Don't be ridiculous! It's only a flesh wound!

[strike]Wife's little bike... 1984 GPZ 550 Kerker and DynaJet stage I kit[/strike]
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Re: 82 kz1000 ground up build

05 Jun 2024 09:22
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Please, please... PLEASE don't put a brown seat on it!        
 don't "sit on the fence" Slayer ! If you have an opinion "speak up" 
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Re: 82 kz1000 ground up build

05 Jun 2024 13:14
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I would love to see a gray coloured seat cover complimented with your bike color contrast diamont stitching.like this one..

 
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Re: 82 kz1000 ground up build

05 Jun 2024 13:46
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Please, please... PLEASE don't put a brown seat on it!        

Why not, it would hide close call accident. 
 

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Re: 82 kz1000 ground up build

06 Jun 2024 06:42 - 06 Jun 2024 06:42
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haha, didnt realize seat color was so polarizing!
i'm sold on brown though, but i have the stock seat with black cover i can throw on for a photo op.
heres the seat i was thinking of....


 
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Re: 82 kz1000 ground up build

06 Jun 2024 06:46
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Brown seats draw almost as many opposing views as a good "oil" debate   I think that is dark enough to work with the colour scheme(I went with black on my build as I still haven't decided what the end paint scheme will be 

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Re: 82 kz1000 ground up build

06 Jun 2024 08:15
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haha it would seem that way....
i've had really good experience with a shop in Vietnam that makes reproduction seats, complete for around $250 shipped.  
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Re: 82 kz1000 ground up build

20 Jun 2024 06:33
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Minor updates:
ordered a few electrical parts; local shop welding up a bracket for the right side cover grommet; had to take apart the rear end as the rear caliper mount is bent, cheap fix; ordered clutch and throttle cables.

To do:
fuel system, exhaust (muffler purchase and fitment), gauge, headlight and mounts, quickshifter and dyno tuning.

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Re: 82 kz1000 ground up build

20 Jun 2024 06:39
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Have you come up with a resolution to the cross tube you removed from the frame ? (if not the resultant flex may break the engine mounts off of the motor)

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Re: 82 kz1000 ground up build

20 Jun 2024 07:23
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once i have the exhaust in place i'm going to see what i can do about putting the same tube back in or a smaller diameter solid shaft and weld it in place.

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Re: 82 kz1000 ground up build

20 Jun 2024 09:30
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once i have the exhaust in place i'm going to see what i can do about putting the same tube back in or a smaller diameter solid shaft and weld it in place.
Could you put it back a little higher just above the headers ?

 

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