Restablishment Phase 2 complete!!!
Engine positioned and rear-bottom bolt in. The whole engine can now swing into the frame around this point.
Making sure nothing gets caught where it shouldn't be before swinging engine up.
Good friend and previous owner QuinDaddy (QD) posing with the 'Ready To Swing Engine Up' frame.
After a few test 'swing ups' to establish where we need to grind (To clear the oil return feed line), QD gets to work with the dremel.
Demonstrating my new found technique of swinging the engine up with 1 person, after dremeling.
QD posing with the compeltely installed engine. Still need to drill out the top mounting bolt holes on the engine block.
The area QD ground away to clean the oil return line banjo. Because we chose to swing the engine in, we needed to remove more material than seems required, so the banjo and feed plate could get past on the way up.
QD went home after this, around 10:30pm, thanks for the help QD!!
Carbs installed.
Exhaust headers.
Full exhaust system.
Radiator, using only the top mounts as the ZX9 has different mounting positions at the bottom (because it has an engine cradle).
The hoses provide more than enough rigidity to the whole thing, and as GreenMan advised me the radiator with have a bit more give in a crash and less likely to be damaged.
Now left to do is:
The top-front engine/frame mount holes don't line up, it's a figure-of-8. So I need to use the hardened tungsten carbide steel engine spacer things as a guide to drill through and expact (figure-8-erise) the mounting holes on the engine block.
Then, I need to clear space inside the "notches" on the inside of engine block which hold the nut in place, since the nut will now be sitting about 4mm lower.
This is probably the most worrying part of the whole process, but I think I'll be fine.
And yes, I do expect I'll need to remove the radiator and exhaust again
hahaha.
Then, Finish hosing it up, airbox, fuel tank, get electronics working, check fuel system, put some oil in, check oil system, crank engine over by hand without spark plugs to check for smooth-ness and compression, crank over with plugs checking for leaks, get enngine running and let idle for a minute, check hoses & leaks, drain oil check for debri, fresh oil again, run engine until coolant fan starts & check cooling system leaks under pressure, drain coolant and check for debri, fresh coolant again, run engine and modulate throttle checking for sounds and bad smoke...
Then get new carb needles from somewhere (kwaka original or dynojet or whatever works out cheapest), get pegs for race kit rearsets and install them... dobule-check everything, and go for a little ride
Riding further and further with quick stops to check everything looks ok.
Yep, so that's the plan for the next week...
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99Coconuts, I'll take some photos of the bars for you today and post them in another topic. Maybe 6cm was a bit of a high figure, not sure really. They do make a difference, but not a true tourer style difference.
I never noticed anything weird having the brackets upside down but did find it hard to get good posture into hard corners and I'd end up hurting my knees because of some weird angle there, I assume this was because of the angle of the bars, but could just be I wasn't using the bike's geometry propperly.
Photos for you a bit later
Damn exciting
Cheers
James
ZXR"900" - In pieces... again.
Another engine gone but at least the purple and pink are still there, oh yeah.
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i would have thought you'd feel like your riding a cruiser or something with a change like that 
