Painting on the cheap

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In my last post I had reached a bit of an impasse with the motor rebuild, waiting on parts that had to come from Japan and which would take at least a couple of weeks before arriving. This led to a question about what to do to fill the time in between. First up was … Read more

How worn is too worn?

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In my previous post I talked about the strip down, pulling the engine to bits precisely enough to replace the problematic part and then putting it all back together again. Or not. As I said before, the inherent costs in tearing down and rebuilding a motor mean that while it is apart it is a … Read more

Deconstruction

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In my last post I came to the sobering realisation that to get to the mystery blockage I would need to strip down the entire engine. This wasn’t the absolute first time I had done this. I remember the last time, it was 1990, I was eighteen, the vehicle was a Datsun 180B, and I … Read more

Let’s do this thing! (Or not)

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With the fairings ready to be sent off for painting once the Airtech upper fairing arrived, the spare motor ready to swap in and the shed cleared of crap, it was time to start the real work – removing the motor. Reading the Haynes manual made it sound pretty easy – fairings off, airbox off, … Read more

Eureka! A panelbeater cometh!

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In an earlier post I had mentioned the challenges of finding someone to do the paint on Project FZR, particularly given the banged-up nature of some of the fairings, in particular the top fairing. My earlier chats with repair places hadn’t filled me with confidence, and I had put the whole idea on pause to … Read more