reviving the world's rustiest crustiest fifth gen

appreciate it, trying to do this somewhat on the cheap (so i have more money for fun parts) but that would probably be a good upgrade for later on.

 

went to clean and paint the exhaust and found some nasty surprises.



obviously this pipe is rotten and the correct thing to do is toss it in the fuck-it bucket. was that what i did though?







nope.

i know it's a bodge and i know it's not gonna last, but oe headers are going for about 100 bucks on fleabay, and if i'm dropping that kind of cash, i may as well save up a little longer and get the delkevics. so any extra time i can get out of this pipe buys me time for that.

in other news, valves are done on the new motor and it's ready to drop in the frame. found a new oem wax motor for the auto choke for 30 dollars, so i'll be sticking with that instead of trying to transplant the manual choke from the original motor; one less lever on my bar is okay with me. once the motor's off my bench and the giant pile of crap has shrunk down a bit i'll probably tear into the forks.

 

motor's in, so is the swingarm. threw on the front fairing to test-fit the new mirrors.



starting to look like a bike again.

 

Cool garage cat!

 

this thing's falling together now. next up is forks, then she'll be a roller. after that is fuel system, then she'll be a runner. outside of paint, that should be the last of the hard jobs. then i get to move into the easy but expensive jobs, like tires, chain and sprockets, brake lines, etc. (paint will probably be hard and expensive so that'll be extra fun.) probably time to start looking for a job....



also i painted the cluster for a laugh. (the trick was dish soap)

 

Watching this with interest - looks a really good project to be doing mate - just wish I had the skill and the time to do something similar