Project ZXR - The Streetfighter

[placidfemme]

Well... Its been a crazy year since the ZXR was stolen.

Took me a few months to decide what to do with the bike after I brought it back from the insurance co. About November last year I decided to build it into a streetfighter.

Its been a mission and a huge learning curve too.

Some of the work done:

New engine
Modified top triple clamp to accomodate risers and dirt bars
Z1000 mirrors
Zeta mirror mounts
Powdercoated rear sets and rocker cover
Aftermarket race pegs (black ones and spare gold ones)
Iridium spark plugs
New battery
New radiator
Homemade radiator guard
New paint job (black of-course)
Modified tank (ground off air holes and welded in mesh)
Gold race spec chain
13T front sprocket
New braided brake lines and banjos
Painted triple clamps (and bits ground off)
Aftermarket little headlight
Aftermarket digital instruments
Polished pipe and re-riveted pipe
New stearing head bearings
New rear wheel bearings
New sprocket carrier bearings
New ignition/tank cap/pillion seat locks
New seals, o-rings and diaphram for fuel tap
Shitloads of new bolts
Re-covered leather seat and pillion seat
New aftermarket indicators
636 gold gear shift rod
Blue anodised oil filler cap
New sidestand

And more bling bits which are too small to be worth mentioning here...

All up over 80 hours have been put into just cleaning parts (the engine and the header pipes taking up the most time).

Had to send the ZXR off to an engineer to straighten the subframe, swingarm and frame from the crash damage...

Finally got the bike road legal yesterday.

Still having some teething problems with the bike. The throttle return is sticking and the bike just revs all the time regardless of being in neutral and having the clutch in, it just revs to redline... which only started happening when I was riding it home last night...

So right now trying to figure out how to get the bike back to work so we can play with it some more...

All in all I'm stoked with the progress made. I think the bike looks shit hot and for the 10-odd minutes last night that it didn't have any problems I was grinning from ear to ear... its good to be a biker again...

Thanks to the streetfighter boys for all the advice and encouragment while nearly everyone else was laughing at me and thinking I was wasting my time and money... Thanks to Allan at Mt Eden for all his help with the bike and to Mt Eden motorcycles for all the support and advice (and shitloads of parts).

[PirateJafa]

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Pictures!

[placidfemme]

Pic 1: Crash damage
Pic 2: Dirty Headers (more like rusted to shit)
Pic 3: Clean headers
Pic 4: Clean rearsets & Rocker cover (before Power coating)

More pics coming....

[AllanB]

More pictures

[placidfemme]

Pic 1: Powdercoated rearsets & Rocker cover
Pic 2: Home workshop HAHAHA
Pic 3: workshop New bars and black triple clamps
Pic 4: Polished pipe

More pics coming

[placidfemme]

Pic 1: Painted tank with modified mesh in breather holes
Pic 2: First test ride 06/05/08
Pic 3: First test ride 06/05/08 - ahhh thats where the shifter is now...
Pic 4: Stage 1 complete, front view - testing day (and failing day... at that point I didn't know it needed it to be tested by an engineer and that the subframe, swingarm and frame were bent - Passed compliance and failed cause no certificate from engineer... back to drawing board)

More pics coming

[placidfemme]

Pic 1: Side veiw - stage 1

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Well there are a few more bling things to be done, so the bike is not complete in my eyes. But at least for now its road legal

I'll be taking better pictures once its complete...

[Skunk]

Looking good. What's the dash you're using?

[placidfemme]

Its a Vapour dash... I think... yeah

[fireball]

ohh shes purrdy....

looking really good there tam, now we are going to have to go for that ride

[Trudes]

Good stuff PF, keep chipping away at it, sounds like you're not too far off being finished, YAHHH!!

[Swoop]

Wow!
No wonder your absence has been noted around here. You have been really busy!

The headers and tank look great, as does the rest! Where are the old grips though??

Great stuff! Keep us updated.

[BASS-TREBLE]

Looking good !
I will keep checking this thread out...

[TOTO]

That is one hot streetfighter.

One question: Are your front indicators going to stay where they are ? They look a bit sticking out. have you taught putting them on the side of your gorgeous headlight ?


The bike looks primo - I admire your dedication

[placidfemme]

Wow!
No wonder your absence has been noted around here. You have been really busy!

The headers and tank look great, as does the rest! Where are the old grips though??

Great stuff! Keep us updated.

lol been really busy... do you mean the purple grips? I still have them, but I couldn't get them nice a clean and the theme of the streetfighter was going all black with small amounts of other colours as possible (I tried sticking to blue as my secondary colour... but yeah some red and some gold slipped in )