Doctorot's '78 KZ1000 build

i'm down in San Jose for the school year, so the riding weather is year round!

The front wheel spacer My buddy turned for me left a little to be desired, but at the time this was the only stock we had so not his fault. I remade it to cover the oil seal and make it a bit more sanitary.
I got a start on the brake mounts. I bored all the holes and then used a thread former to cut M10x1.25 threads. It was my first time using a thread former, and man they are trick. produces no chips, so no backing up every quarter turn, longer tool life. better in every way. I'm never going to by a traditional tap again. I also bored the recesses for the caliper and cut them out of the plate. II still need to clean up theoutside and I want to do some pocketing, How much material do you think i can safely remove? I was thinking about having 1/4" think walls and bottom.

i think leaving everything a 1/4 inch thick will be plenty strong with the structure that the walls and floor create.
imho

leon

Brake mounts are finished. I started planning out to do the pocketing cuts and shit started getting way too complicated so I just eyeballed em, having a CNC here would be awesome. I'm not a fan of tooling marks unless they are super even (like a CNC), so I blasted the pockets and gave everything else the brushed treatment. I noticed one of the forks is weeping fluid so rebuilding those will be up next.

wow....that is nice. do those calipers use original kz pads?

Thank you. These Grimeca calipers use a different pad. I'm planning on running Ferrodo Platinum pads

HOT :evil:
Steve

Very nice work....!!

Wow!! Excellent work, beautiful bike!

those caliper brackets came out nice.good job :evil:

leon

Got the paint cut and buffed. I burned through a tiny spot on the tail but it polished out well enough that I'm cool with it, also some flaws in the stripes on close inspection but not bad for first time doing that or the polish.