Engine and frame identification!!!!

exceptions are possible. you are the glass is half empty type of guy.

My explantion falls into about 95% or more of the engine cases being restamps!

z1kzonly wrote: WTF? all re-stamps are not stolen! I dismantled 10 or so bikesa in the past 30 years.
just drag racing, dirt drag racing or selling for parts. All that was left was the title.

So if you dismantled the bike and sold the frame the title should have gone with it then,other wise its a worthless piece of paper unless somebody is trying to cover up a stolen bike or make a bike apear to be something it never was by changing a serial number.
And yes there are people out there who have gone so far as to use a titled steering head and part of the frame tubes to weld back into a differant frame,one of these days Ill right a book of some of the things ive seen done locally around here in last 30 plus years(maybe include a few names to keep it interesting :whistle: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: )

4TheKZ1000 wrote: exceptions are possible. you are the glass is half empty type of guy.

My explantion falls into about 95% or more of the engine cases being restamps!

Id say its closer to 98-99% of the cases youll ever see have that rib on them,but there are those rare exceptions before somebody posts a picture of 1 before somebody calls us on it.
ive got a z1 in back of barn with a 10/72 build date that Im pretty sure is one of the rare exceptions. :laugh:

This is a factory replacement case

heres an early z1 motor with origional cases and no rib around serial number ,the ribless exception.

An old Bridgeport Mill can do anything.

Got 4 titles sitting in the gun safe.

z1kzonly wrote: Got 4 titles sitting in the gun safe.

Ive got lots of old titles and keys also,title aint worth anything without the correct frame with matching numbers though.
hell Ive still got the key and title to my first 50 chevy pickup we pulled out of a corn field close to 35 years ago,its just a piece of paper without the cab and vin numbers though. :woohoo:

z1kzonly wrote: An old Bridgeport Mill can do anything.

Ah,so your condoning(spell check :laugh: )theft/fraud?
Remind me not to buy any bikes out of new york! :sick:

AMann