83 RZ350 hybrid

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Re: 83 RZ350 hybrid

#46 Post by Yellow and Black RZ » Sun Feb 23, 2020 10:43 pm

That’s going to be fun.
Congrats. Good luck with it.
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Re: 83 RZ350 hybrid

#47 Post by 85RZwade » Mon Feb 24, 2020 1:05 am

So cool. I love those pipes
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Re: 83 RZ350 hybrid

#48 Post by kpke » Mon Feb 24, 2020 12:20 pm

Nice work! That bike looks beautiful. :smt045

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Re: 83 RZ350 hybrid

#49 Post by 2smokin » Fri Feb 28, 2020 5:01 pm

85RZwade wrote: Mon Feb 24, 2020 1:05 am So cool. I love those pipes
Thanks, you lose a fair bit of clearance with them but shearers make amazing power and rev to the moon.

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Re: 83 RZ350 hybrid

#50 Post by 2smokin » Fri Feb 28, 2020 5:01 pm

kpke wrote: Mon Feb 24, 2020 12:20 pm Nice work! That bike looks beautiful. :smt045
Thank you I appreciate it!

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Re: 83 RZ350 hybrid

#51 Post by 2smokin » Fri Feb 28, 2020 5:02 pm

Yellow and Black RZ wrote: Sun Feb 23, 2020 10:43 pm That’s going to be fun.
Congrats. Good luck with it.
Thank you mate!!

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Re: 83 RZ350 hybrid

#52 Post by 2smokin » Fri Feb 28, 2020 5:03 pm

tacky1 wrote: Sun Feb 23, 2020 9:12 pm Very nice, Job well done, Loving the yellow paint,,
Thanks. Originally I planned on doing white paint with the black Kenny Roberts decals.

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Re: 83 RZ350 hybrid

#53 Post by 2smokin » Fri Feb 28, 2020 5:04 pm

Evans Ward wrote: Sun Feb 23, 2020 9:52 pm Smokin’ is good! Good job.
Thanks dude

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Re: 83 RZ350 hybrid

#54 Post by 2smokin » Wed Mar 04, 2020 8:07 pm


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Re: 83 RZ350 hybrid

#55 Post by tacky1 » Wed Mar 04, 2020 8:30 pm

Sounds really nice and crisp, Perfect
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Re: 83 RZ350 hybrid

#56 Post by 2smokin » Thu Mar 05, 2020 9:25 pm

Front headlight and front signals are all that’s left to do Before I can take it for a ride and start getting the jetting dialled in a bit more.
I wish there was a local shop with a dyno to have it tuned. I’d also love to see some hp numbers.
I think I’d be around or close to 70hp with this set up.


I’m going to start building my spare engine soon, so if anything happens to this one I can just do a quick engine swap and keep riding.

Thanks to everyone watching the build it’s kept me motivated throughout this winter.
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Re: 83 RZ350 hybrid

#57 Post by 2smokin » Sun Mar 15, 2020 4:21 pm

Got out for the first ride since the full rebuild. Running good. Those shearers let it rev to the moon. Screams up to 12.5k rpm
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Re: 83 RZ350 hybrid

#58 Post by Yellow and Black RZ » Sun Mar 15, 2020 7:03 pm

Looks great. No issues at all, yet?
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Re: 83 RZ350 hybrid

#59 Post by 2smokin » Mon Mar 16, 2020 9:44 pm

Yellow and Black RZ wrote: Sun Mar 15, 2020 7:03 pm Looks great. No issues at all, yet?
It’s an rz350 of coarse it has a couple issues lol. That’s half the fun with these bikes, gotta love wrenching as much as riding.

Put maybe 25km on it yesterday. Running good, took it up to WOT a couple times. Handled well on the top end and the new yss shock is a huge improvement over the stocker. Also love the way the Tarozzi rearset feel over my other one off rearsets.

All in all it was a good little first ride after a full frame up build.
Passed a cop without a headlight or licence plate in it and luckily he didn’t see me haha.

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Re: 83 RZ350 hybrid

#60 Post by 2smokin » Mon Mar 16, 2020 9:45 pm

https://www.instagram.com/p/B9xDasjjNU2 ... 9ogr8jmzt0
Little video of the first little rip
You’ll notice the second car going the opposite direction is a opp, luckily he didn’t notice I had no headlight or signals on the front and no licence plate.

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