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Speedo Pick Up looks good there mate, neat and tidy...............well done !

I can remember both me and Phil building "special Z1300" bikes around the same time...........probably 11 - 12 years ago and we both arrived at the same conclusion back then with the Acewell Speedo and rear wheel pick ups.

Your bike looks impressive and alternative, which I love and the way all special builds should be.
You should think about contacting a Custom Bike Mag when you are finished, as many of them are on the hunt for project bikes like yours as a feature bike.

I was visiting the Bulldog Bash 13 years ago with my Z1300 Chop (Skullduggery) and the Back Street Heroes Editor saw it and asked if they could do a full feature, which I agreed to and they did some months after. It was a good experience.

Pete F
UK

Let me get it running first!

I was thinking about what can still go wrong when starting it up for the first time.

I have no idea if the pick-up coils are working, or the normal coils, or that the carbs are set up correctly (although Oz rebuilt them so they should be very close) or if I will have oil pressure, or if compression is enough to get her running, or if the lack of an airbox will be an issue... etc etc. ..... and then I could not fall asleep anymore

Once I am at that stage I will simply try and check everything and then just go for it, see what happens.

But that will be a few weeks still as I still have a small list of to-do's.

Coolant, brake fluid and bleeding, licence plate, tank, seat, exhaust. ...

Paul

P.s. The Classic Mercedes Mag did a feature on my Merc some time ago. It finished with: "...will be revisited when restored". Glad I didn't agree to a date for that!

Sounds like any typical resto or rebuild !

You will get there..................believe me !

Pete F
UK

Tbh the only real difference I found fitting just the one magnet is that the speed is slightly slower to update below about 10 mph (which of course it would be with only one trigger per revolution), but that's it.

Pete, in an old thread you said you modified your top air box to take three K&N filter pods.

After K&N have confirmed to me they can't help me with oval-intake pods, I am planning to do the same mod. Can you pls tell me what dia pods you used?

In the meantime I test fitted the exhaust and ... surprise surprise! .... another issue popped up:





... and how I solved it!



Yes, I bashed the pipe in to get round the side stand bracket which I obviously welded a little too far forward - but how was I to know? Of course I know now for the next time, and for this bike I will get a completely new system anyway.

The old system I have is fairly damaged, needs a lot of welding to plug all the holes and will only be on the bike until I can get my custom system fitted and then will go on Ebay for a fiver or so...

Cheers
Paul

Oh yes...............

The good old exhaust fitting process on a Z1300............I have learned many new and offensive swear words doing that over the past 40 years !!!
I too have resorted to the JACK idea with good and bad results, especially if you intend to fit the centre stand.

As for the Air Filter mod..............I took the top section of the standard Z1300 air box and mated a flat aluminium plate to the bottom of it and fixed 3 x 50mm round sleeves to the base of the plate to fit common 50mm round pod filters onto so I could then fit common and reasonably priced 50mm ROUND filter pods onto.
This worked really well and looked good too !






Hope that helps ?

Pete F
UK