18″ high shouldered (H-type, H-shape, flanged or valanced) rims are essential point of both, CBX550 spoked wheels project and whole KZ650 project. I bought first pair of such rims on Italian ebay. They were descendants…
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I’ve made some improvised plugs and cut out a set of covers from transparent plastic to protect all essential surfaces of crankcase from glass blasting and to minimize penetration of glass beads into crankcase. Then…
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After I found out that high shouldered wheel’ rims that I ordered from Italy are not good enough for my project and was waiting for arrival of ordered substitute (this is another story), I concentrated…
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Just another shopping post, so to say another couple of hundred bucks spent on KZ650 project. What I like in OEM parts is a fact that they always work as they were intended to work….
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Photo shooting of large-scaled exploded view like this is unique chance and it is always a fun. It is also preassembling summary of whole project or significant part of it and opportunity to check if…
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The distinctive feature of every Gazzz Garage project is preassembling photo that shows all parts, units and components of project placed on some background. We started this tradition of ours in 2014 when such “Exploded…
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Initially I thought to use original KZ650 cylinder head as it was in very nice condition: no broken cooling fins, clean intake channels and so on and so forth. The only thing I had to…
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So, after many long days of hard work I finally finished Honda CBX550 wheels polishing and now I could proceed to assembling. The most of components are ready, however some additional preparation should be done…
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Today I finished sandpapering the last part of Honda CBX550 wheels and began to polish it. I have to buy some bearings and seals and give some parts to be zinc galvanized before I start…
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