XS PROJECT

Where do you keep finding these "barn finds" (apart from in a barn!).

I've been on the lookout and most barn finds have got silly price tags on them!

 

thank you sir, we curmudgeons take our jobs very seriously and may i use you as a reference at our next lodge meeting ?

 

LOL...

By the way wiz, do you ever get to play pool or is the table always covered with bike bits??

 

Perhaps we just have bigger barns.
Polock, your lodge members know I'm the Grand Wizard.
Yes, Hillsy, I do play pool, it just makes it more interesting playing around the bike parts.
I just got a ripper pair of shocks from the states for $30 8)

 

a pool table... in the garage... i'm packing my bags and moving in with you wiz...

 

You're welcome, Schooter.

 

lol there is actually like a 1% chance i may be going to the land down under- remember that pm i sent you awhile back about my friend going to Australia with nothing but the clothes on his back for awhile? he's leaving 1 week after i get back, told my dad about it, and it blew my mind that he said it sounded like fun... but like 1%, if so, ill let you know...

 

What kinda shocks do ya get for $30, new/used, shiny/rusty ??
I take it th swing arm has bushes then.

 

Hold on a minute! I see one of the 900 s hiding under a sheet but what is at the top of the picture behind the pool table?

The chrome mudguard and tail light suggest 1970's Kawasaki 2 stoke or maybe a Suzuki T250?

 

That, my friend, is a 1979 Kawasaki Z200 4 stroke.
Markie, sent you a PM. Wiz.

 

I have replied!

I just had a thought though - a z200 featured in the late 70's film "Adventures of a plumbers mate". The further the plumber rode, the more of his girlfriends skimpy outfit came off!

 

Adventures of a plumbers mate - here you go - dress falling off sequence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kZ-gIGzDjQ

 

Yeh bushes, Bushy, this bike is real old fashioned.
Shocks are good, used, I will post pics in due course. Wiz.

 

MC before pic'.

 

You're sure you can resurrect that "thing" ???

 

O ye of little faith.

 

lol, he ain't called the wizard for nothing

Hey Markie, they don't make bikes or women like that anymore. Great clip.

 

Yeh +1 on the 'plumbers mate' (!)

 

hopefully the bore looks better then the rest .like to see what my sonic cleaner would do to the corrosion

 

how far can you throw that thing ?

 

I'm not throwing it yet, curmudg' the bore is unblemished, I had to dill out & re-tap the actuating bolt & must get a kit. Oh & all 4 bolts on the cover snapped ,I had to bull the threaded sleeves out, other than that, it's like brand new.

 

Here ya go, Polock, put that in your pipe & smoke it. 8)

 

Gee Wiz... You have far too much time on your hands

 

Aint this the cutest little horn / refector set up.

 

yea i saw that one too

 

Very droll, are they selling my pool table cover as well?

 

lol, polock knows his photoshop

 

Yeh, he's the best, I bet he could even make a birth certificate for Nobama.

 

He already has one, it's just not from the USA

 

Meters & controls finished.

 

Fuse board upgrade, I used an 8 way because it reached the existing brackets.

 

These pictures prove what I have thought for a while, that this is a low mileage bike that has just been left neglected.
Anyone would be proud of those diaphrams & slides AFTER cleaning.
Anything on this bike that has not been directly exposed to the elements is like brand new??????????

 

Carbs finished.

 

and now the parts exposed to the elements look like new

 

would you like me to send you some new plastic hose ?

 

Yes please, T, if you have some that is brown & crunchy, I want the bike to look original.

 

Prepped the tank some & rustcoated the underside, ordered a sealer kit from KBS, for the inside, which looks pretty clean & has not been coated before, which is a real bonus.
This bike has a petcock for each carb, the only filter is a little screen inside the petcocks, with the height of the intake tubes I recon you will be running on RES most of the time.

 

That's tank porn wiz, get it off this family friendly website!!!
;P
Seriously, I'd KILL right now for a decent tank for my 400. :/

 

Picked up a pair of mufflers off the bay for $20 the pair, they scrubbed up OK, they have the shape of the originals, but shorter, so I will extend the headers a bit.

 

Just back from soda blasting, a before pic as well.

 

Case polishing done & new gaskets made (total cost $8.95)

 

curious to seee this finish as I have the same bike.

Do have a question though, do the pics only stay up for a while? I only see pics from the wheels, post sand blasting.

 

The forum only allows a certain quota of pictures to be uploaded, when the quota is reached you have to dump some & start again, if there is ever a picture you want to see again let me know & I will re-post it, no worries, Wiz.

 

Oh ok, thanks for the heads up.

Don't recall exactly all the captions to the pics, but I would love to see end results and any pics of say hard to find bolts or pics of how to do something particular.

 

Sounds like you need some webspace to store your photos and then use the image code to post photos.

Code:

So the following code placed in your post
[img]http://www.syscap.com.au/images/dm/bike_hut.jpg[/img]

Would display the image below in your post. The only limit to how many photos you have is the amount of server space you have:



Be only too happy to help you with this wizard. The least I could do

 

Didn't you have a photobucket account, wiz??

 

Thanks Crow & yes I do, Hillsy, but it's a PITA to keep loading the pics up, (dial up) Wiz.

 

Dial up?!?! No way, no wonder you don't want to be uploading all the time.

 

Why dial up in your part of Melbourne???...garn spend some of th hard earned on that new fangled broad band thingy. And wheres pillock when he's needed for a few words.
Looking forward to hearing a twin as well.

 

Progress picture.
The 'spin on' oil filter for these bikes has been discontinued, so if any of you guys know of an alternative please let me know, no, the one off the 2000 R1 doesn't work, it needs an adaptor, then you can't get the sprocket cover on.