This build as I see it, breaks down in to five parts. Engine, forks, exhaust, seat and paint. There are some small ancillary items to be sure, but the meat is those five items. The forks, to me the forks are going to make this thing what it is. Using modern, inverted, gold GSX-R forks with clip ons will really give me the custom look I want. It will also very likely be the bulk of the money I spend here. I’m thinking $3,500.00. Ok, so there’s that. Then there’s the engine. I’m not looking forward to the engine. Monitarily I’m probably looking at $500.00 to $1,000.00 for the engine rebuild, and I’m including the carbs in with that. And I’m really not looking forward to the carbs at all. I might have to farm those out. I tried the kickstarter the other day and she’s frozen so we’ll have to see what’s what there.

The thing about the engine is workspace. I’ll have to come up with a tear down bench or area to do that work, but this weekend I’ll get the exhaust off and get some Kroil down in the cylinders, see if I can free things up a bit.

Oh, and then there’s the tank. Opened that today for the first time and yeah, rusted. Now I’m not to concerned with this, as I’ve already been down this path with the NS.