1983 GPZ 550~~ new bike & new member

Looks like you have a nice project there with lots of potential. Have fun with it and I hope everything goes fairly smooth with the rebuild.

I'm very hopeful too
let's cross fingers that my vision and the reality will be close enough...lol

i can't wait to see the finished product!! Keep the pics coming!!

next thing that's gonna get done is the powder coating, probably this week.
A customer of our gun shop is doing it for us outside regular business hours at a really good price so I don't want to push my luck by rushing him

and to my knowledge, they don't do ceramic coating soooo...what about my exhaust??
I've read about decent results with the VTM paint? what's the best way to do it? apparently, Powdercoating is a no-no for exhausts?!

and while I'm at it...I can't find the Acewell 2802 speedo ANYWHERE!!
seems discontinued everywhere I look...I saw older links with a $119 price tag but now the cheapest is around $200 on eBay

follow the build here:

www.kzrider.com/forum/11-projects/459775...ct-with-1983-gpz-550