Get Ready

[CruisnGrrl]

wait, i'm not ready. need more

[GSXMAER]

I'm sorry, for keeping everyone!!!!

I'm ready now..........standing by.....with Shea butter lotion!!!!!

[fastar1]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T43m6dcMk6U

[PokLim]

everyone's ready now

[klr_guy]

Prediction: I beat FZ1Oakville with project details on something I just bought today, but still won't have for a week and probably won't do anything meaningful with for two weeks after that.

Oh, but get ready.

p.s. ban FZ1Oakville for weak thread skillz

[klr_guy]

Screw it - I'm one-upping FZ1Oakville - here's mine

[RetroGrouch]

WTF? You bastard, where did you get that sweetass SRX?

[klr_guy]

WTF? You bastard, where did you get that sweetass SRX?

A friend. Just over 10,000km - a little rough, and has sat for many years, but good bones and hopefully will be on the road come spring.

[Torren]

Well I was ready.. just not for THAT.. :P

[meme]

sweet! i'm in line behind retro if you ever wanna sell.

[yettiman121]

[TheDirty]

Okay, I'm finally ready. Bring it on.

[FZ1Oakville]

Wholly *&^%sorry everyone, I've actually kind of forgot I started this "get ready" thread --- looks like I had a few followers too ---
Ok -- Here is the project -----

Started with a 1986 FZ600 / and this is how I recieved the bike ...... intacted, but not much of it was bolted together, or wired - the bike rolled / and needed some TLC to get it started ---
I will go through what I did - rather quickly .......

[FZ1Oakville]

BTW Yetti ... awesome video --

[FZ1Oakville]

Prediction: I beat FZ1Oakville with project details on something I just bought today, but still won't have for a week and probably won't do anything meaningful with for two weeks after that.

Oh, but get ready.

p.s. ban FZ1Oakville for weak thread skillz

Facts ------
1.Your prediction skills are horrible - because its 3 months later, and I don't see your project up anywhere.
2. Ban klr guy for requesting a ban because he couldn't wait the 4+ months it took me to post info on my project.

[FZ1Oakville]

The first week in October - I rolled the bike out, and took these before pictures - This is what I purchased (I did get a seat with it) everything else, I had to source and buy.

[FZ1Oakville]

Oct 10 to 30th - I stripped the front fairing and tank off and pulled out the air box/ battery holder/ wiring harness and a few other things that were in the way - and proped the bike up in my garage to re- wrap and replace some terminals and cleanup the original harness.
I found partial rear fairings and put some putty on the tank and sanded, primed and painted the tank, fenders, fairings - including the front fairing which needed some fiberglass repair and some strengthing
I found a case cover for $40 (as I was missing mine) dumped the existing oil/ replaced with new -- squirted the carbs and linkage up, checked the compression, changed the plugs - grinded the exhaust down and painted it, and installed it, and put the harness back together and on - enough so that I could boost the bike and see if it would fire.....on the 5th try, it started up --- I sync'd the carbs at idle and it ran smooth
I decided that rather than completley restore this bike, that I would put it back together in this condition - still knowing that I was missing a tail piece, fairing set - and a couple of other odds and ends....

When I picked up the bike, engine condition was "unknown" and it was rough and missing parts --- overall I'd say a 3/10 ---- In the 3 or 4 weeks that I actually worked on it --- I believe I brought it up to a 6.5/10 ---- and off it went to the next owner ---
I'd love to post a couple of the "After" Pics - but I just tried and it says I'm over my quota -- so I have put them on photobucket and made a link

I don't know if the project details and pictures I've given were worthy of a 4 month wait - my appologies to all. http://s1134.photobucket.com/albums/...akville/FZ600/

[Pocket]

nvm fail at reading lol