Billy Golightly
05-16-2005, 08:09 PM
Firstly, those fenders are NOT new ones. LonesomeTri-Z and his fiance were up here over the weekend while we worked on putting a hitch in Louis' truck to pull a trailer up to Trikefest. While we were working on that Melissa scraped the fenders on my Z, and man did they turn out awesome. They look like brand new ones, unbeleivable. I did not have any clue that nice of a yellow was underneath that nasty ass sun faded brown that use to be there. I wish I could learned about this earlier, Its gonna be something I do to everything from now on. To catch up on the Z a little bit, I'll go through what I've done to it in the last year or so since TF04.
Right after I got back from TF04, I bought a used Durablue +4 axle from a YFZ450 that had been bent and re-straightened for a killer deal of $75. It even came in the original durablue box with the packaging, lock nut and everything. Dude was upgrading to an RPM and had no use for the Durablue. After making it fit (Some mods, however nothing really drastic) I had myself a +4 axle on the rear end which was very nice. Next thing was getting my front brakes working. I'm also using a YFZ450 front mastercylinder (and, haha) a 350X front brake line at the moment. Stock Z caliper on the disc, no real mods there. Works really good. Next up is changing the front tire, I took off the old 25incher and had been planning on replacing it with a stock 86Z dunlop (23.5) from Tires unlimited when I learned they had been discontinued and all their stock was gone, so I went with a Carlisle 489, which is an agressive front tire but it works very good, It bites good and I like it alot.
While the front wheel was off I replaced my old rusted up forks with some ones I got from mikefromlongisland off of ebay, replaced the seals (which are now leaking again, cheap pos), put in progressive springs with spacers along with Belray 15wt fork oil. Put all that back in there and together. So much better of a ride in front. Its very stiff now, which is what it needs for my fat ass. I also replaced the torn and battered seat cover with a brand new Ceet brand one from Dennis Kirk. Next up a week ago or so now I bought another Z engine from Jim (Firecat) when he was parting his out along with some other stuff like a front fender, some wiring garb, and headlight bulbs and plugs. 4th gear was out in my old motor, and I did not have enough time to tear into it and re-do it plus work on the 500R between now and haspin so I opted for the easy fix. Which was, a whole new engine :D
And most recently, I got a CGR stainless bolt kit from Marco (Hagen, Greenboy) along with one of his bad ass aluminum stator covers. Pure work of art I tell ya, awesome stuff. So thats all for now, I'm fighting a fuel pump problem which I will maybe try to look at more carefully tomorrow. I got 3/4 of a tank and no fuel coming to the carb...either a hose has come off or the diaphram is bad or something. A few other things I want to do before haspin is a twist throttle, and hopefully new grips. The ones on the left side are worn down to the handlebar haha.
Right after I got back from TF04, I bought a used Durablue +4 axle from a YFZ450 that had been bent and re-straightened for a killer deal of $75. It even came in the original durablue box with the packaging, lock nut and everything. Dude was upgrading to an RPM and had no use for the Durablue. After making it fit (Some mods, however nothing really drastic) I had myself a +4 axle on the rear end which was very nice. Next thing was getting my front brakes working. I'm also using a YFZ450 front mastercylinder (and, haha) a 350X front brake line at the moment. Stock Z caliper on the disc, no real mods there. Works really good. Next up is changing the front tire, I took off the old 25incher and had been planning on replacing it with a stock 86Z dunlop (23.5) from Tires unlimited when I learned they had been discontinued and all their stock was gone, so I went with a Carlisle 489, which is an agressive front tire but it works very good, It bites good and I like it alot.
While the front wheel was off I replaced my old rusted up forks with some ones I got from mikefromlongisland off of ebay, replaced the seals (which are now leaking again, cheap pos), put in progressive springs with spacers along with Belray 15wt fork oil. Put all that back in there and together. So much better of a ride in front. Its very stiff now, which is what it needs for my fat ass. I also replaced the torn and battered seat cover with a brand new Ceet brand one from Dennis Kirk. Next up a week ago or so now I bought another Z engine from Jim (Firecat) when he was parting his out along with some other stuff like a front fender, some wiring garb, and headlight bulbs and plugs. 4th gear was out in my old motor, and I did not have enough time to tear into it and re-do it plus work on the 500R between now and haspin so I opted for the easy fix. Which was, a whole new engine :D
And most recently, I got a CGR stainless bolt kit from Marco (Hagen, Greenboy) along with one of his bad ass aluminum stator covers. Pure work of art I tell ya, awesome stuff. So thats all for now, I'm fighting a fuel pump problem which I will maybe try to look at more carefully tomorrow. I got 3/4 of a tank and no fuel coming to the carb...either a hose has come off or the diaphram is bad or something. A few other things I want to do before haspin is a twist throttle, and hopefully new grips. The ones on the left side are worn down to the handlebar haha.