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This is a pic from the first build started in 2006

This was how it first went with the hair dryer back in 2007..held up no problem ...it was running the smaller T0 3/4 hybrid then with no boost control and a 10 lb spring turbo project 117.jpg

The chart says ZX10 which is the 1988 not later model its really an RX not ZX10 and the speed is for 2nd ...

Interesting ..... found out today the ABC are wanting to do a doco on the first to 200 naked at lake Gairdner in 2014......better pull the finger out and get mine finished ...in the middle of a total rebuild ...there will be 4 kawa's up against an army of busa's.......one turbo 14 one worked over 12 ...

Thanks for the encouragement ...I will endeavour to put together some of the things I have done to date .....yes it has a hairdryer among other power adders...see what I can collect from another computer in the way of pics
cheers

Quest ....26yo GPZ RX 1000 ......370kph .....naked !!!!!!
The bike ....................... A new creation
Designed by................... Troglodyte inc.
Engineered by................ Rustic Performance
Financed by.................. Nickels & Dimes
Rider ......................... A slow old fart ...

Hello all.....well I last posted here in 2008 ...then moved os for a while now back in aus......still have 2 old girls in the shed to get back to life an RX & ZX10 old school ...may start a build thread on my progress ...the ZX10 maybe back on the road with a few surprises.... and the RX something a ...

Any way to cut a long story short I finished my first build ,and I ran it at the lake ,sadly it did not live up to my expitations ,though it did give me a heap of experence and information for a complete new rebuild , this early years bike was christened Mr whippy because of the look alike saddle ...

With the first build i added a set of 38mm Mikuni smooth bores with a methanol kit

The engine build #1
there is a saying '"Good ,Fast ,Cheap choose two " Im a person of modest means and I want fast so from the start the whole process will be strickly "budget " and what better way of saving a buck or 3 is to do everything yourself ,so with that settled off i set , sadly most of the ...

Where does one start ? I had in the past restored and customised many "normal" bikes but this time I was going to attempt a challenge I had not contemplated , so while I I cogitated on the direction what better than to set the goal ie. a world record in a 1000cc class , so I looked through the ...

Linkie thing be buggered , this saga unfolds right here in this thread :P Huh where was I ,yer , usually one requires a reason to embark on a long and arduous journey ,in this instance it started long ago when in a fit of drug induced euphoria i lashed out and aquired 2 old school engines ,these ...

G'day space cadets :) offerings to the gods of speed ,was an inscription given to all the home made failures & experiments of my childhood hero Bert Munro ,who in his 60's set off with his backyard contraption and set some landspeed records in the USA ,which still stand today and now myself like a ...

thanks blokes , yes I have pics ,I will start up a build /project thread ,not sure where it would fit in ? maybe classic Kawi or GPX?GPZ ? ,though fair warning these projects are a little out of the ordinary as am I
cheers

Greetings from the high country , Im into building my own creations from scratch , horsepower (sounds better then kilowatts) and have a passion for landspeed racing ( burt monro worlds fastest indian) my latest build is based on an old school GPZ 1000RX ,which im hoping will set some of its own ...