Finally decided yesterday to attempt to salvage what I could of the old zorst. Step 1. Buy an angle grinder (woo hoo, sparks 'n stuff) Step 2. Cut off the fucked bits of the old collector box, leaving 2 clean stubs. All I need now is a bit of pipe with an ID of 38.5mm to join them together. Step 3. Grind all surface corrosion off non chromey bits and paint with black HT enamel. Luvverly. Unfortunately the silencers, which I thought were OK are actually (well, after yesterday's efforts), scrap. One of them had rusted very heavily where the pipe joins the headers (i.e, it was all brown and crumbly), and one of the 3 screws holding the end cap on wouldn't undo, and appears to be made of the hardest metal known to man. The other one now has a large socket hammered up it's chuff which I was using to try to get the baffles out, so it would appear to be fucked too. Ho hum, my cup is half full I guess. For the hell of it I enquired yesterday at my local Kawasaki dealers about price and availability of a complete new system. Should find out next week. -- Dan L (Oldbloke) My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr M'boy's bike 2003 Honda NSR125R (Going) Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Patio Ornament) BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005), X-FOT#000, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)
Yeah, cheers for that, have been watching it. Price would be great if the downpipes weren't dinged, but then again my downpipes are (now) serviceable. Dunno, I may watch it some more, but I have a horrible feeling the ends of the silencers will have corrosion as they are used rather than NOS. -- Dan L (Oldbloke) My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr M'boy's bike 2003 Honda NSR125R (Going) Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Patio Ornament) BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005), X-FOT#000, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)
