Bike carbs fitted - page 2
Rear arches and chassis legs replaced - page 4 - 6
Full respray - page 7 - 8
Engine doner purchased - page 9
XE prepped to go in - page 11
Bay repaired and stitch welded - page 12
Bay painted - page 13
C20XE fitted - page 13 - 17
Engines first start! - page 18
MOT and on the road - page 19 - 20
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So after 18 months, I've finally returned to Novas, having just bought a pretty tidy 1989 1.4 SR
It's currently lowered 60mm on springs and shocks, has a MK2 dash fitted so I don't get cancer, and a few other bits that you can see.
I'll let the pictures do the talking...
so the plans for now are to replace the rear arches, replace the doors, tidy up the interior, re-tango the indicators and tail lights, and also remove the drug dealer window tints. Alloys need some center caps and a refurb too
other than the essential work, I'm going to stick a set of bike carbs on it, and a few other related engine bits.
bought the carbs within 3 hours of getting the car
Keihin CVK40's off a ZX-9
stripped them down and cleaned all the swarf and dried petrol out of them. forgot to take pictures so now we are half assembled again
float bowl gaskets are £10 each so thought sod that, and put them back as they were
and all done, just need another ram pipe as one is missing. I bet Kawasaki will have my trousers down for that
also got an inlet gasket so I can get a flange laser cut for the manifold
and found some rear arches kicking around at work so I've re-homed them too
Thats all for now, I'll update as I work