It finally happened: cylinders for Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer project are bored, honed to fit a Wiseco K700 piston kit, glass beads blasted painted in black. It’s my third approach to cylinder block. Original cylinders of…
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And here we go with a new shopping post. And again, all parts in it are for Kawasaki KZ650 engine, which is no wonder as engine assembling is my next big goal. As I already…
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Here are photos of Zephyr 750 from Germany, which I received from my client recently. Surely, the most noticeable about this motorcycle is the fabulous painting made by airbrush artisan according to the design of…
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Parcels were arriving one by one while I was working on spoked wheels from a previous post, let’s open a couple of parcels right in this story. Set of exhaust pipe holders arrived first. I…
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Or to be more precise, build of particular Honda CBX750 Comstar-to-spokes wheels conversion. These photos also might be called “summary of previous episodes“. I’ll post more details later, as at the moment I am quite…
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Recently I received another order for kit. When I went with the seat base to the upholstery workshop, its owner informed me that he soon will be on vacation for a couple of weeks. I…
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I prefer to paint aluminum parts as soon as possible after glass beads blasting. So in the very morning of the day when I have to give cylinder to painter I mounted it to my…
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My next task with cylinder head was to prepare it for glass beads blasting. Why to bother with blasting if head is new? For one thing, 1980 KZ750 cylinder head is factory painted. The shade…
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I finished previous part of story on a minor note, so let’s make picture a bit brighter in this part. Remember those rusty camshaft cap bolts? I have a couple of sets of similar non-rusty…
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