Love the mechanical archaeology, it never ceases to amaze me what the previous Neanderthal has done before !

Just brought myself this bike in black as a non runner (due to rattling timing chain) and loving this step by step videos. Great job 👏🏻

many a great man has falling trying to vanquish a Kawasaki bolt.

I've just bought that bike, its 90% mint. Owned by a copper, full service history, all original. Few cosmetic scuffs, but looks almost new

I thought the observation about the side-stand was very smart. Not the wrong one, after all. Just seems like it because someone's tried to raise the back with shorter dog-bones in an attempt to make it turn in quicker. Better idea was to fit a shock off a ZX12R.

Love watching your videos man, you saying "i'm not a prof. mechanic" but you're better than most of the mechanics i know, that's for sure.

Nice mate, just got recommended this as never came across your channel before. I'm going to enjoy this, I have the E1, amazing bikes still.

its nice to see the ZXR finally getting attention. i look forward to following your progress.

About blooming time 😂

Looking forward to seeing you fix it up Kevin

Great stuff, mate. Thanks so much for all the quality content of the channel.

Good to see the ZX9R project started. I used to own a 99 C2 about 7 years ago and loved it. I have just got another one that is in similar condition to yours and I’m halfway through its restoration. Should sit nicely alongside my GTR1400 when finished. Reference the headlight, mine was also in rag order and not many are around on eBay. Found out that the ZX6R G is identical, so a bit easier to find one in good nick. Look forward to watching your progress.🍻

Glad I'm not the only one really struggling to get the rear tail fairing bolts out as the front two are jammed on mine too. Going to thoroughly enjoy watching this transformation and hopefully pick up tips and ideas along the way. Would !lve to do a full resto on my C1 9R one day

I used to have e1 Kawasaki zx9r

great vid, unless i missed it, it looks like your catch bottles on the air ducts are missing !!

If there’s oil in the coolant, there’s probably a head gasket leak. Hope you do the job in a video... I changed mine last year, took me a couple of weeks as I had to service everything once you crack the engine open😂

Yours is a 99 model, the 98 is all blue. You should install an exhaust system from an E model, that’s an awesome upgrade as the e exhaust is modelled after the akra-racing exhaust system👍 they’re dead cheap on the zx9 pages.

Up the Irons

Hey, I'm just now seeing your channel ive just acquired a zx9r I live in the U.S my bike has 30k miles on it. Maintenance things I'm doing valve adjustment, new chains sprockets and clutch any other things you think I might need to look at while getting this bike into top shape also doing compression check to see how healthy the engine runs solid so far

Nice bike. So what is project then. Just restoring back to original 🙂

Jesus, you're murdering the previous owner in a similar way to what he's done to that bike ! An eye for an eye leaves the world blind hahaha