Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer. Shopping post #14.
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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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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By the end of Friday I achieved all goals I could achieve: all orders were dispatched and cylinder head for KZ was glass beads blasted and I gave it to be painted in paint shop….
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One might remember my posts about cylinder heads for Kawasaki KZ650 project. In short: my intention was to use KZ750 cylinder head of early production years, so it’d be compatible with early KZ650 timing chain…
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It looks like a good time to return classic “garage skies” section, because skies these days are as epic and as dramatically changing as weather. Here is my two day catch: three photos I shot…
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