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Well it's been sat in the shed for near on 2yrs

Finally I've started to do something with it

Kawasaki UK asked to do a feature on me with my bikes so I pulled the sheet off it and washed it down , it cleaned up pretty good and after scoring an as new cowl and side cowls from a M3 my mind was made up to get it on the road again.





The M1 came with no paperwork so I had to get another frame with documents , as luck would have it I sourced one for a member here and had it shipped to Australia. An email or two later and they agreed to swap it for my frame and on a holiday trip here they brought it back

So it got stripped and painted, and has kicked about my store rooms for 18 months

Paint stripper that actually works !









I took some general photos of the bike before stripping down as a guide for rebuilding , sorry but I haven't done in depth shots of the build as it's cold out there and washing my hands every 5mins to take a pic is just going to slow things down to much.









I was just going to do a straight swap over job but it would pain me to put dirty manky parts back on so everything is getting a good wash n polish - no resprays though as no time and too freakin cold. I can't locate all the parts I have for it as mostly buried in the store rooms but the OEM box was at hand with new parts in there so pads, chain, indy's and the like all renewed. As I unearth rear sets and the like they will get bolted on at a later date.

Swing arm got all new bearings



Fitted it up with ride height adjusters


Fitted a rocker with grease nipples


Set the valve clearances



Engine and front end with new frame




KRT spring fitted to SP shock


Callipers scrubbed to within an inch of their lives !


Wheels on with new boots


Stop n Go action


New filter & fuel line


BEET Ti zorst fitted



Sticky rubber



Streetfighter in the making


Front end completed and M4 tank fitted to see how it would look



All going to plan I should fire up the engine this weekend and get it booked in for it's MOT by the end of the month

A bit more done , suddenly looking like a bike again

Loom fitted and mostly plugged in , just to zip tie it in place.


Rusty bolts swapped out for stainless




New inlet manifolds going on , never a bad thing to do and the old ones are rock hard anyway



Fluids all done




Not sure if this can will stay on , got a selection but until the rest of the bike is built it will stay just now

yay! mori-man is back!

good looking bike

I am not in the slightest bit jealous of those bikes, no, not at all.

Looks effing brilliant!

Top class as always mori-man as said before jealous of the parts you seem to be able acquire.

You have some lovely looking bike looking forward to seeing this one built up

Wow very nice

Well that's it a runner again

Has started flawlessly over the past 4 hrs with 6 full heat cycles and fan on many times. Clutch is nice and quite and engages gear with out to much transmission " Clunk "

Glad I put the ride height adjusters on - up on my tip toes with them at standard For a bike that looks compact , it's tall !

Will have some video of it soon , didn't do one with the tank on but these photos were taken while it was running

Almost finished

how many 4's do you own?!!

makes me want to buy another zxr400 !!

masterofinsanity wrote:makes me want to buy another zxr400 !!

Never a bad idea

copeyhagen wrote:how many 4's do you own?!!

Good question ! Maybe seven , got nine engines so just need to count how many frames I have

Very nice indeed.
Where did you source the ride height adjusters from, if you don't mind me asking, they look very similar to the Ducati ones.
Keep up the good work.

ZX4R-F3 wrote:Very nice indeed.
Where did you source the ride height adjusters from, if you don't mind me asking, they look very similar to the Ducati ones.
Keep up the good work.

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