So my wife came home today with this for me:
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An early Christmas present. Has the weird 14W VIN prefix. Apparently an '82 SJ. Looks like everyone asking about the 14W VIN is in Canada. Canadian only VIN?
Looks pretty good from ten feet away but it was laid down on its right side before being stored for nobody knows how long. Have to double-check but I believe the odometer was around 13,000.
Front right flasher smashed, rear right flasher scraped and bent, tank dented, headlight bucket dented but ok, master cylinder reservoir shaved down, engine guard maybe bent a little, chain rusty as all hell, and the front brake caliper is seized.
Oh, and no keys.
Mufflers are rust-free on the outside but the frame has a surprising amount of rust. Thick in places but I don't think it's compromised.
I'm in school until January so there won't be much time to work on it.
Torn between trying to get it running for the summer without doing a complete teardown or taking it all the way down to the frame, removing and repairing the rust, sandblast the frame, walnut blast the engine while I'm at it, and start fresh.
General plans are:
- Get it running and ride for a while.
- Fabricate 2-1 exhaust. Hoping to sand bend the headers by hand with the help of my pipefitter wife.
- Custom handlebars with wife's help again.
- Stainless steel brake lines.
- Swap front forks from our XS360 that has left-side caliper mounts to allow eventual dual disk setup.
- Get rid of that 2-up seat.
- Get the upcoming Pamco ignition with electronic advancer.
- Redo the electronics. Smaller battery and possibly switch to custom PMA setup.
Long-term, future idea:
- Supercharge it. No promises on this but a fair bit of design work has already gone into it. Currently looking at a 200-250cc twin-lobe roots blower, functions kind of like a scaled-down Aisin AMR300 but with more efficient involute rotor profile.
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An early Christmas present. Has the weird 14W VIN prefix. Apparently an '82 SJ. Looks like everyone asking about the 14W VIN is in Canada. Canadian only VIN?
Looks pretty good from ten feet away but it was laid down on its right side before being stored for nobody knows how long. Have to double-check but I believe the odometer was around 13,000.
Front right flasher smashed, rear right flasher scraped and bent, tank dented, headlight bucket dented but ok, master cylinder reservoir shaved down, engine guard maybe bent a little, chain rusty as all hell, and the front brake caliper is seized.
Oh, and no keys.
Mufflers are rust-free on the outside but the frame has a surprising amount of rust. Thick in places but I don't think it's compromised.
I'm in school until January so there won't be much time to work on it.
Torn between trying to get it running for the summer without doing a complete teardown or taking it all the way down to the frame, removing and repairing the rust, sandblast the frame, walnut blast the engine while I'm at it, and start fresh.
General plans are:
- Get it running and ride for a while.
- Fabricate 2-1 exhaust. Hoping to sand bend the headers by hand with the help of my pipefitter wife.
- Custom handlebars with wife's help again.
- Stainless steel brake lines.
- Swap front forks from our XS360 that has left-side caliper mounts to allow eventual dual disk setup.
- Get rid of that 2-up seat.
- Get the upcoming Pamco ignition with electronic advancer.
- Redo the electronics. Smaller battery and possibly switch to custom PMA setup.
Long-term, future idea:
- Supercharge it. No promises on this but a fair bit of design work has already gone into it. Currently looking at a 200-250cc twin-lobe roots blower, functions kind of like a scaled-down Aisin AMR300 but with more efficient involute rotor profile.