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Carb is fitted and connected up, Engine has been spun up to circulate the oil and the Hydraulic clutch is bled and working. Electrics next, you never no it could be running this weekend!

After a lot of fitting/removing/fitting/removing I have finally got the turbo to sit in is final resting place, a 6mm thick flange spacer, double exhaust gaskets, a few tweaks rotating the turbo case and a few changes of fixing bolts/nuts enabled the pipework to fit without touching the frame, engine case or starter motor cover. All oil pressure pipes are now fitted, the turbo oil drain pipe fitted well into the converted redundant kick start casing and the oil is in. The 525 X-ring conversion chain is now on. The PMC hydraulic clutch conversion fitting was straight forward, just got...

The Turbo has passed its MOT. I cheated and took it in a van though. The motor sounds good and the mixture is about right, I fitted one of our heavy duty sealed "Quadflex" batteries (don't like the "acid vapour" from normal batteries) I have tweaked and fettled a few things and await the road Tax so I can start the road testing I have said a prayer the sun god for some nice weather so fingers crossed.

Where do I start with this one? Those wonderful guys at Z-Power are at it again! After my involvement with the frame mods on Dave's MFP Mad Max bike last year, Dave has asked me to help out creating a road legal bike based on the bike used by Wez (Wesley Xavier Zonault) love that name, in the Mad Max 2 movie. We got together, I made a few suggestions, not many of them were useful but I soon got the jist of what Dave wanted. He gave me access to an abundance of scrap metal that he said was Quality Z1/Z900/Z1000...

This Bike was created by Dave at Z-power for his stand At last years Stafford show. I helped him fit the ZXR upside down front end and the Honda single sided rear, as well as a frame strengthening kit at the time but some parts did not arrive in time so it went to the show as a non runner. It was at our open day in May if you came, next to the MFP Mad Max bike. I now have to help him finish it off because some one fell in love with it and has persuaded him to...