FZR400RR with 1998 FireBlade motor
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Rammy
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Re: FZR400RR with 1998 FireBlade motor
got a 1998 fireblade engine with all ancils for sale if anyone fancies a try at this! 
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Evilchicken0
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Re: FZR400RR with 1998 FireBlade motor
Not really the next best thing, it's a 400/600 with a ThunderCat engine. Nicely done thoughgothicsanta wrote:the next best thing is on eBay
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... :MESELX:IT
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plodder
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Re: FZR400RR with 1998 FireBlade motor
£1695, am I dreaming?
Mine's as good as that and owes me £750
Mine's as good as that and owes me £750
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Re: FZR400RR with 1998 FireBlade motor
It was £1400 in the for sale section, I like that there Plodder's bike
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gothicsanta
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Re: FZR400RR with 1998 FireBlade motor
750 
oh my god yours was a bargain then you can't buy a half decent 400 for that!!!
BTW it is 1695 or best offer so I am fully expecting the price to come down!
oh my god yours was a bargain then you can't buy a half decent 400 for that!!!BTW it is 1695 or best offer so I am fully expecting the price to come down!
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Re: FZR400RR with 1998 FireBlade motor
I bought the bike for £700 with short MOT. Didn't ride it as I had a trailer on and my 4 month old baby in the car. Bloke wanted £900 but nice bit of negotiating got a result.
Needed a few bits doing like the shock was a pogo stick, the forks started to leak and the brakes were cr@p. Only found this out when it wouldn't turn or stop very well.
Anyway, I've got loads of FZR1000EXUP bits, so built the custom forks from 400 stachions/springs and the rest of the front end is off a 1000 (hence the R1 calipers and the 320mm disks). Also bought a R6 shock from USA when the dollar was 2:1 (actually bought 2 as they were so cheap) and Oolit's extension, so it worked out at about £90 in all.
It was pretty good after that when the roads weren't busy but not enough poke to contend with Sunday afternoon overtaking.
So a 600 engine came up locally on ebay for 99p and the bloke said BIN for £80, so I went to see it. It was in a bit of a state from a crashed bike that had been dismantled when the guy had to move house. The inlets were not plugged, so there was some dust down there. He had the carbs/loom & CDI sitting there in a couple of buckets. CDI and loom were wet but as the CDI is resin sealed and the contacts looked OK I offered him £120 for the lot (I was thinking about £100 but I'm too soft). Then I got the Delvelic SS pipes when DK were doing them for £80.
So I got it to where it is today for 700+90+120+80=£990 plus some sundries and raiding my parts bin. I sold the engine a few months back to a lad that blew his chasing his dad's mates on R1's etc for £250. I've not yet sold any of the other 3TJ stuff, so I don't count that against what I took out of my my parts bin, so I figure it owes me £750
I hope I don't chuck it down the road at Oulton Park next wednesday.
Needed a few bits doing like the shock was a pogo stick, the forks started to leak and the brakes were cr@p. Only found this out when it wouldn't turn or stop very well.
Anyway, I've got loads of FZR1000EXUP bits, so built the custom forks from 400 stachions/springs and the rest of the front end is off a 1000 (hence the R1 calipers and the 320mm disks). Also bought a R6 shock from USA when the dollar was 2:1 (actually bought 2 as they were so cheap) and Oolit's extension, so it worked out at about £90 in all.
It was pretty good after that when the roads weren't busy but not enough poke to contend with Sunday afternoon overtaking.
So a 600 engine came up locally on ebay for 99p and the bloke said BIN for £80, so I went to see it. It was in a bit of a state from a crashed bike that had been dismantled when the guy had to move house. The inlets were not plugged, so there was some dust down there. He had the carbs/loom & CDI sitting there in a couple of buckets. CDI and loom were wet but as the CDI is resin sealed and the contacts looked OK I offered him £120 for the lot (I was thinking about £100 but I'm too soft). Then I got the Delvelic SS pipes when DK were doing them for £80.
So I got it to where it is today for 700+90+120+80=£990 plus some sundries and raiding my parts bin. I sold the engine a few months back to a lad that blew his chasing his dad's mates on R1's etc for £250. I've not yet sold any of the other 3TJ stuff, so I don't count that against what I took out of my my parts bin, so I figure it owes me £750
I hope I don't chuck it down the road at Oulton Park next wednesday.
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gothicsanta
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Re: FZR400RR with 1998 FireBlade motor
Ah ha I see, yes 750 possible with a lot of hard work and hassle (fine if you know what you are doing )
The bike sold tonight, I let it go for 1250 which I think was fair all round as the bike rode spot on and had a stack of brand new parts on it, the chap buying is going to race it and seemed over the moon with it (maybe I sold too cheap!?)...
)The bike sold tonight, I let it go for 1250 which I think was fair all round as the bike rode spot on and had a stack of brand new parts on it, the chap buying is going to race it and seemed over the moon with it (maybe I sold too cheap!?)...
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Re: FZR400RR with 1998 FireBlade motor
£1250's about right.
I bought a 3TJ for £435 with crash damage and it sat in my garger for about a year until I got round to doing something.
I gave it a service and got the forks stripped an rebuilt, bought a bodkit and headlight off a guy going racing, and a pair of wheels with new tyres and discs from a TRX850 - cleaned it all and bolted it all up ... probably cost about £400 with oil, plugs, paint and everything.
Then I got some SP forks from a braker, had them rebuilt with new stanchions and a new EMC shock ... about £550.
The bike got clipped by a car a couple of months ago and I took a payout, which is nice.
I'm collecting bits to do a 600 conversion and really only need a CDI and an airbox.
I bought a 3TJ for £435 with crash damage and it sat in my garger for about a year until I got round to doing something.
I gave it a service and got the forks stripped an rebuilt, bought a bodkit and headlight off a guy going racing, and a pair of wheels with new tyres and discs from a TRX850 - cleaned it all and bolted it all up ... probably cost about £400 with oil, plugs, paint and everything.
Then I got some SP forks from a braker, had them rebuilt with new stanchions and a new EMC shock ... about £550.
The bike got clipped by a car a couple of months ago and I took a payout, which is nice.
I'm collecting bits to do a 600 conversion and really only need a CDI and an airbox.
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plodder
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Re: FZR400RR with 1998 FireBlade motor
I didn't and I was doing about 2:20 laps. Not bad for an old plodder on his first trackdayplodder wrote:I hope I don't chuck it down the road at Oulton Park next wednesday.