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Several years ago I stretched the swingarm 4 inches and this forced me to remove the stock undertail. I made a new one out of aluminum but it was flat and the rear tire would hit it on a hard launch. I modded it with a recess in it to enable hard launches without hitting it anymore: In the pictures you can see where the tire used to hit. I will paint it with the rest of the brackets I still need to fabricate. I need to brace the pan the oil cooler sits on and make a bracket for the scavenge pump to mount. I also have to mount the new fuel pressure regulator as well. That will be a nightmare I'm not looking forward to.

The ZX12R's always had a very "iffy" fuel pump. They weren't designed to handle much horsepower over stock so I upgraded to a Walbro pump. It's not really impressive to look at. If you didn't know better you'd think it was still a stock unit except for the bigger pre-filter (sock). While I'm addressing weak links, the clutch is a timebomb in a 12. The stock basket will explode eventually on the dragstrip or even if abused on the street. That's why I went with Muzzys clutch kit: and a billet clutch basket from Falicon:

It will see the dragstrip, but it has to completely and fully be able to perform on the street as well. All signals, lights, horn,etc must work as advertised. Basically I want a clean looking sleeper. All the additional toys will be hidden inside the bodywork so the average Joe will not notice anything when looking at it. To the trained eye or anyone who knows ZX12's it will be obvious that things were done to it but it won't necessarily be obvious as to exactly what was done. Oil cooler was relocated:

Yesterday's project was installing an oil pan window (windage tray) in my ZX12R. And installed heat wrapped exhaust.

I added different stuff to the bike over the years and a few years ago I started a turbo build. Now I'm finishing that build and I will be riding the beast this summer. If the header looks familiar to some of you it's because it started life as a stock ZX12R exhaust. This isn't an off-the-shelf-kit. I designed it in my head and my brother and I fabricated it.He's certified in every form of welding there is except for underwater (we have a cousin that does that). I'm an aircraft mechanic by trade (24+ years and counting) and my specialties are structures and sheetmetal fabrication. I'm going to try my best to keep this updated as things progress, so stay tuned.

I started this on another forum and I'm keeping the progress updated there, but I'd also like to let everybody here know what's going on in my garage currently. I'm the original owner of a 2000 ZX12R that I bought in April 2000. I saw pictures of the bike in the fall of 1999 and fell in love with them and then when I saw them in person in Gainesville,Florida at the spring Prostar race and then again a couple days later at Bikeweek in Daytona I decided I had to have one. When I got home from bike week I immediately put my 98 ZX9Rand my 87 GSXR 750 up for sale. They both sold to the first person that looked at each one. I took the money and went & bought one of the first green ZX12R's that arrived in Southwest Ohio. The owner of the dealership is also an old friend so he gave me the list of bikes coming in and let me pick the VIN number I wanted. I rode it and raced it in various forms over the years. That's me giving it the business:

Sorry guys. I won't be there. The wife isn't feeling too good so I'm staying home with her.

Welcome to the forum.

Welcome to the forum.

Everybody loves steak & BJ day!

Happy Birthday.

+1 Words to live by from Nick, the great American philosopher.

Don't know if anyone needs these, but found the link this morning: http://www.garth285.com/manuals.htm

If something happens that you still need one let me know. You can use one of mine. I work in Columbus so we could meet somewhere convenient for both of us.

Welcome to the forum.

Welcome to the forum.

Welcome to the forum and I'm truly sorry you lost your father. Sounds like he was a cool dude.

Welcome to the forum.

I have to hand it to Kawasaki. The new 300 is a bad ass looking machine.

Nice Harley. Welcome back.

I'm bringing back a dead thread here, but this is one of my winter projects. I just finished putting this together today: It's a 1995 ZX9R. It's still 899cc but I massaged it a little. Nothing major, just enough to liven it up. Stock cams, bumped compression a little bit,ignition advancer, ZX7R (1991-1994) valve springs, etc...The flatslides will stay on it when it's put in a bike. I still need to order some bolts for the head cover and change out the adapters on the airbox for the flatslides to mount. It's just sitting there right now. Currently I have no bike to put it in. I'm going to put it in my engine cabinet with the others until I can get a bike built from the 92 ZX7 frame I have sitting here staring at me.

As Snot said,come on up to Xenia and hang out. The track is getting completely redone so it'll be nicer than it was before. There are new staging lanes and all new track surface. I've been told the concrete will be extended and the dip at the end of the previous end of the concrete-to-asphalt transition will be gone.

Welcome to the forum. Nice Ducati.

Welcome to the forum.

Welcome to the forum.