Need Major help!!!! Engine Exploded!

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Need Major help!!!! Engine Exploded!

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I just bought a zxr400. However is was sold as having a gear fault (my original tread being "stuck in gear") and he told me that a mechanic had looked at it and quoted 120 for parts and labour. But when it was deliverd the WHOLE engine is split and compleatly smashed with the starter ripped off and 2 inch wide holes on the front of the engine by the down pipes. This guy i bought it off has completly done me has buggerd off with my money and i cant get in contact with him as i know he fully knows hes cond me! So now i need an engine! My bike is a 1990 H2, does anyone have an engine that would fit for sale? or anything that can help. i have been quoted 400 smackers for another engine and i just cant afford that cause i spent all my savings on the bike so if anyone can help me out with a cheaper option you have my attention! Thanks
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Oh toad mate, sorry to hear that. Where did you buy it from, ebay?

Keep ya eyes peeled on the sales section and on ebay. Doubt you will get a good engine for less than £250 unless its pretty high mileage so you might have to fork out :(
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yep it was from ebay. Theres an engine on ebay right now with 50quid starting bid 2 days left
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I think you have buyer insurance upto 500 quid with ebay. I take it your making procedings to report the member?

Good luck with the engine!
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I will try m8 but i dont think i will get very far to be honest, because the aution was ended early so it never went through the whole buying process, prob so he could get round the Final Value Fee. Anyway about the engine on ebay right now i am wary that, well he could tell me any mileage i have no way of checking and i am in no mood for being conned again, but he did say it was running when he took it off last week. Do you know of any other engine that would fit my bike? any of the newer zxr400 ones or the L type ones?
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As far as i know the H and L model engine swap with both bikes, but im not 100% sure if they run on the same electrics. There was a thread about this a while ago saying you need different CDI units for both engines, i think thats all you need to do. One of the racers knows for sure.

As with anything on ebay you never really know what your getting. If the guy is breaking the bike surely he will have the speedo? Perhaps double check when you goto pick it up?
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i have seen the CDI's and there quite expensive so i wont be going that route. i will ask about the speedo tho. P.S. is it difficult to swap an engine over?
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engine swap is easy as mate! Long as you label all the wiring and where pipes go its an well easy job! :smt001
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well if you hear of anything going relitavely cheap let me know on this thread
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£275 I paid for a H engine which is now In my L. Straight swop no CDI difference.

Give this guy a ring 07743 998366 He's in Leeds.

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Oh forgot to mention. If you want to hear the engine running, he will fit it in a test frame, running on bare minimum. Then if you take it, you drop it out. I've just bought a load of things of him. Top fella!
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does this guy have a website or email?
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he has a phone number.
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lol
Quicker Than Yngwie

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Post by masterofinsanity »

who's the seller on ebay for the engine? there's a few reputable breakers of zxr400s on ebay, AMS, specialized_zxr and also fallsoffslowly off this forum.
Don't forget people there is more to the zxr400 than this forum... check out www.zxrworld.co.uk also.
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