Fazer Owners Club - Unofficial
Bikes, Hints'n'Tips => FZS600 Fazer => Topic started by: Clouddodger on 15 March 2022, 07:00:34 pm
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Hi All,
I've spent many hours tawling through the various FZS600 threads to plug gaps in knowledge for my lockdown project which is now complete: a full rebuild and modificaiton of a FZS600 into a cafe racer. Hoping the pictures of the end result show and sounding out to see if there is any appetite for a build thread to show how I went about the project and lessons learned on the way...
Cheers.
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Looks pretty impressive :thumbup
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Thank you - it was the perfect distraction for idle thumbs during lockdown
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Like it, nice job. :thumbup
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Looking good and plenty of nice details. I'm sure there are quite a few on here who would be interested in a step by step build thread. Even old hands can generally learn something from what others have done and experienced, both what went well and shall we say the frustrating bits. Well done.
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Soooo, for those that are intersted, I'll do my best to walk through how I turned a stanadard fazer into a cafe racer, before and after below:
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Prior to starting the build I spent hours looking at different donor bikes and at images of what people have done with them. The ambition was always to try and produce a fun, mid-size engined, cafe racer.
Budget was also a key part, and the fazer seemed to fit the bill.
Prior to buying the bike, the web was again hugley useful in fiding out what to look for when buying one and I ended up with a low-mileage, well looked after bike for just over a grand.
With so much time on my hands due to the UK being in lockdown, 3 days after riding the bike into my garage, the bike looked like this:
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Lessons learned when stripping the bike - taking videos with my phone proved sooo much more useful when putting the bike back together than photos. I tracked were cables ran, what was fixed to what etc and it, without doubt, saved me hours.
Once the bike was stripped I listed the jobs that needed doing (before I started planning what to chop off).
Frame and wheels to be blasted and powder-coated
All paint work to be resprayed
New chain and sprockets
New speedo
New lights
New brake hoses
Calipers to be refurbised
New Suspension
Replace the airbox with pod filters
Engine check (valves etc)
Carb re-jet
Engine respray
New headers and exhaust
And all on a limited budget so I had to do as much of the jobs as I could.
As I started,
I hadnt stripped a bike to its compenent parts
I hadn't pulled carbs apart
I hadn't done a paint job.
I hadn't welded anything
I hadn't fitted a digital taco
I hand't made fiberglass parts from scratch
I had done basic electrics, brakes, chains etc.
Thank god for the internet! - This forum was a life saver for most of my 'how does this work' moments/