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Tofu

Hey guys

I purchased an abused pop up Kat about a year ago sight unseen (yep mistake) and have been doing bits and pieces to it since then. Ive been posting in the Aus Kat owners and the Pop Up group but came here to look for info to make a headlight module.

I don't really have any recent photos of my bike but i'll attach something.
Its blue with a black frame and fairly trashed engine, typical damage from being raced and abused.

Replaced
-Hel clutch hose
-New cycleworks 4 into 1
-New OEM fuel tap and fuel cap
-New accelerator cable
-Reproduction black plate
-Replaced clutch sleeve, hub nut and washers
-New starter clutch rollers and gasket
-Replacement front screen
-Replacement tail and dash plastic
-Second hand r/side plastic to replace trashed
original
-Carbs stripped and cleaned. Replace float valves
-Replacement headlight cover and dash plastic to replace those pictured

Photos on the auction site.
https://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=2567977248
 
Welcome Tofu. Sorry, I can't help you but there are plenty here that will be able to help. That bike of yours has lots of potential and will look great when you're done.
 
Welcome aboard! Big thing with the pop ups is as long as the fuel tank is solid you should be good to go. They're the hard bits to replace if they're rusted or dented beyond repair I believe.
 
Thanks for the welcoming replies! Darkside has pointed me in the right direction for the headlight bits. I cant believe I didn't know about this forum previously. I post on the Oldschool.co.nz forum as well.
Forgot to mention I have a wee 550 as well.
 
Hey there,

saw your Katana on trademe. I've got one here in Upper Hutt that I got in 2009 as a complete train wreck. It sat in the garage until about two years ago when I decided to do a resto project to recover from a rather nasty accident when I slammed my Tuono into the side of a pickup truck at speed and did some horrible things to myself.

Long story short, two years and $6K later, I'm still not finished.

I still need to do the following:
- start on the engine - was dropped, stuff generator cover, have replacement that needs painting, as does all the gold parts on the engine, need to install new stator and rotor.
- fairings are all primered, need some bog and reprimer then a full paint job. Have sticker set I bought off ebay.
- chain and sprockets
- new tyres
- carbs cleaned and tuned

so not too much more, considering I stripped the bike completely and have been rebuilding it piece by piece, with everything going back being as good as, if not new.

Good to see another katana popup owner here. I was tempted to grab yours as a parts bike, but I've just spend what your bike would cost on buying NOS parts from Megazip and ebay.

Simon
 
Hi riffer i'm sorry to hear about your accident.

It's worth spending money keeping these bikes to keep them on the road in my opinion. Are you using any particular colour for your gold parts?

I might pull my engine down for a long term build at some stage, first I need to get my baby Kat back on the road :-)
 
Tofu said:
Hey guys

I purchased an abused pop up Kat about a year ago sight unseen (yep mistake) and have been doing bits and pieces to it since then. Ive been posting in the Aus Kat owners and the Pop Up group but came here to look for info to make a headlight module.

I don't really have any recent photos of my bike but i'll attach something.
Its blue with a black frame and fairly trashed engine, typical damage from being raced and abused.

Replaced
-Hel clutch hose
-New cycleworks 4 into 1
-New OEM fuel tap and fuel cap
-New accelerator cable
-Reproduction black plate
-Replaced clutch sleeve, hub nut and washers
-New starter clutch rollers and gasket
-Replacement front screen
-Replacement tail and dash plastic
-Second hand r/side plastic to replace trashed
original
-Carbs stripped and cleaned. Replace float valves
-Replacement headlight cover and dash plastic to replace those pictured

Photos on the auction site.
https://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=2567977248
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So was all this work done before you got it? What did you end up paying for it? Where in NZ are you? Cheers and Im not a policeman, just wondering.
 
Hi Murray

Not sure why I would think you're a policeman...

I purchased the bike last year for $2500 and rode the three hour trip North. Once home I was looking at it thinking shit this is rough as guts. The fuel cap was broken and painted over the dash plastics all broken.
Replaced the clutch bits pulled the lever and the hose split, new rollers in starter etc. It still has a clutch rattle due to carbs needing synced.
Im not going to bother balancing the carbs, i'm just going to get flatslides.
 
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Tofu said:
Hi riffer i'm sorry to hear about your accident.

It's worth spending money keeping these bikes to keep them on the road in my opinion. Are you using any particular colour for your gold parts?

I might pull my engine down for a long term build at some stage, first I need to get my baby Kat back on the road :-)
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Accidents and motorcycles seem to go together eh? Such is life.

I'm using VHT SP736 for the gold. Cool paint, but damn, I've had three cans and they have all been different. Either my luck is shit, or their quality control is.
 
Tofu said:
Im not going to bother balancing the carbs, i'm just going to get flatslides.
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Urgh. Flat slides? You sure that's not more work? My damn Vertemati dirt bike only has one flat slide (FCR39) and that's a right pain in the arse.
Hey Murray - I'm in Upper Hutt mate.
 
My airbox seems to be on the piss too so brand new flatslides will be the go i think.
I was watching Andy's motorcycle Obsessions on youtube and I seem to have the same problem as he did wth his basket case yammy. No matter what I do the thing overflows, he ended up just fitting slatslides.
 
Just had some work done on 900 Superlight with FCRs fitted. The fuel was passing through the carbs and had filled my sump!
Bit beyond me so got a great mechnica contact to sort them out. Runs sweet as now! He is self employed and works from home mostly in the North of Auckland / Rodney region.
 
I used Duplicolor 1604 for the gold. Frame, valve cover, engine covers, brakes. All the gold. This paint has worked very well and a 99.9% colour match.
 
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