superhawk996

A paint shop can get you a few ounces like I got up to gallons. They can even make spray cans if you don't have a sprayer. They might even know an experienced guy that can do it for you at a reasonable cost.

Try going to a paint shop with the bike or a clean part off of it and have it matched. I tried getting some for my white '99 Ford, should be simple right? Even the dealer doesn't sell the right white, but it's listed as being the Z1 white on my truck's ID sticker. I had a shop do it using the number and it was much better than Ford and Duplicolor, but not quite there. I then took the truck over and he got it as close as my eyes can tell. I bought a small brush top jar and it was under half the price of the brush top jar from the dealer which looked exactly like the Duplicolor jar with a different label. I returned the Ford paint.

Knowing how many $ would be helpful.

Apparently I had smoked crack the day I looked at it and thought the bike's price was 1500, 4000 is still decent if one wants the spendy exhaust. I'm guessing the kickstand is just out of view.

The exhaust alone is worth a good part of the price. Unless it's a scam or has some hidden shit it's probably already sold. If it were local I'd scour up the money for it.

That's cuz you had them bad ass brakes and Zero was on the crappy stockers and couldn't slow down. When I had my 999 I should have looked at what it would take to swap those in cuz they were pretty awesome, never thunk of it, but I'm not unsatisfied with the Bird brakes whether linked or not.

Maybe broke like me, well most probably aren't that broke. I could maybe give him $1000 for it, and might have to ask that he take payments. He's pretty cool with pricing the stuff he sells, but not that extreme. I think he's probably making up for other things missing in his life, but no harm no foul...actually better because others get to benefit. Or I'm completely wrong. There's probably a name for his condition, but most people do similar to some level. Get something new, farkle it, maybe rub & caress it a few times, then move along. I do it on the cheap; buy something old & broken or otherwise shitty, farkle it (aka make it work and usually not beautify it at all) then usually sell it once it's done. Usually with intent to make some money on it, but there's been a few times I thought it would become a keeper and after grueling hours of work find that it's just not gonna be what I want or that it's just not worth keeping for $ reasons. If I had Dave money I'd need a warehouse or 20 to store all my toys, he's smart enough to move through them. Speaking of which; did I miss where he sold the Vette or does he still have it.

Those people annoy me, I just ignore them. I've learned through my sales and friends' sales that most are just gonna lowball as far as possible, many of them looking for something they can re-sell. First time I got an unseen offer on something it wasn't too terribly low and I really wanted the car gone ASAP so I accepted. He shows up and starts nit-picking, all defects I had clearly stated in the ad, and trying to lower the price more. I told him no and he went on about how it's not gonna sell for more, blabla bla. Just then a no-show from earlier arrives apologizing that his car broke and he had to get a ride from a friend. He says if this guy isn't buying it I'll take it right now at asking price. I let him keep $100 so he could tow his other car home. Turns out Mr. low ball was so confident he'd get me to sell he told his ride to go home....and didn't realize his phone and wallet were in the car. When I get a retarded offer I sometimes play with them, I accept it then I string them along 'till it sells or they give up.

And trying to go to school and work 2.5 jobs.....and possible military service and trying to pay off loans.....and maybe it has an Akrapovic exhaust or stock depending on which era of photo is current, if any. And the price and flexibility, but "knowing what it's worth". Crack head.

Hmmm, I must be missing something. My body isn't tiny, thin, but not tiny. If that's an appendage reference; it' YUGE!

Most tortillas are flat so I dunno.

From pictures the Civic one looks about the same for '98-up bikes, the '97 doesn't have that extra disc on the bottom and the opening is off-centered. I was shocked that the Civic therm is a 170 degree, woulda figured 195. Stock XX is 82C (179.6F) for either type.

Dig the cooler/plenum.

I need to get one for Cecome's bike and remembered that there might an automotive replacement, it's for a '97. If I can save him a few bucks and get one at Oreilly or amazon instead of Honda that would be great. The one that comes up for me on amazon doesn't look right and has no temp statement so I'm leery.

Just a shitty header. Cecome bought his motor complete from air box to mufflers, he did that to eliminate any potential of upsetting the tuning that was done assuming it was properly tuned and running at peak performance. Then he brought me his bike to try to fix the slow out of it, he figured it needed re-tuning or maybe something needed fixing. When he first told me he thought the bike was gutless I thought "impossible, he bought the whole power package off that million dollar bike". As soon as I saw the header on it I knew I had to start there instead of tuning. It's odd that Bear never noticed the bike being underpowered but maybe he thought it was just because he's a big guy. Unless he swapped the header when he sold it all to Cecome, but that seems unlikely. Even tho I hadn't ridden mine in a while his was fairly obviously under powered. Then I took mine for a spin and got a reminder of what these things do. I just realized that he bought the motor out of a whitebird then brought it to the owner of another whitebird to fix it; what are the odds?

And while it was a beautiful and greatly farkled bike, it was gutless.

Something you forgot to put in your ad: adult ridden, babied, never raced. :-)

5'2", 118#, sopping wet, and free?!? I'll take her.

Mine used to do the same! Then I put a LiFePo4 battery in it and it's more like ziiiing vroom wub wub wub.

I think starter. Pull it and put a little oil on the bearings, assuming they're just plain bearings, and you'll know. If it has ball bearings they should have numbers you can use to get replacements from any supplier if they're bad.

Looks like the shit that comes off a lathe, kinda crazy.

How the hell is someone a member for 3+ years without a single post?

First verify that the fan will fit, it's pretty tight in there. Brackets if they'll hold it tightly enough so that it can't rattle around and beat up the radiator. Or zipties and put foam or something between the fan & rad., or both.

The connection was probably loose or dirty causing it to get hot. You could just cut that wire and its mate on the other end and put terminals on them to reconnect outside the factory connector. If you can hunt down the right terminals you could fix it to remain within the connector. If that connector plugs straight into the instrument cluster and not another connector then you might have to get more creative.

Hahahahaha. I bought an SV650s with a rusty and seized pump. Tore into it and freed it up and it worked great. Fixed a few other things, prettied it up, rode it for a while, then flipped it for 3 or 4X what I paid. The pump on my JX650LJ, Seca turbo, was seized when I got it and a replacement was $700. Cut the can open, fixed it, and resealed it. A little bit of a battle, but not a $700 battle.