Non Max project dilemma

[DakRatFink]

So, I'm due home from an overseas deployment this week and obviously excited to get the Max back on the road.
However, I also have an old '92 FZR 600 streetfighter in the back of the garage waiting to be resurrected ( runs solid, needs a brake M/C and some fork seal work )
The dilemma is I have a lead on another FZR with complete body work however may or may not have a title. With the exception of dirty carbs/ choke it is a "parts bike" that is probably more complete than my current project.

If I can get the parts bike for a couple hundred, do I rebuild a fully faired mostly stocker, or strip apart a good stocker to resurrect a streetfighter?

 

[Fire-medic]

The two bikes together aren't worth much to anyone. If you have one stocker not all roached-out, in stock paint and looking good and running good, it's probably a $1K bike at best. Unless you want to sell the parts you don't use, either keep the streetfighter for parts and try to get the best-looking one closest to stock to look like a nicely-kept version for your use, or swap the best parts on the one you have no title issues with and try to make a stock looking ride. people like to see an unmolested ride from that era, because the 600's typically get used-up quickly, so there aren't many out there in stock, uncrashed shape.

Whenever I go someplace on my FZR1000, because it's a stocker, people always comment on how nice it looks and then I tell them it's 25 years old and they can't believe it. I have been acquiring parts for it as spares because I want to hang-onto it as a functional bike for years to-come. There are newer, faster bikes, but few of these in good shape remain. Aluminum hollow-box perimeter frame, five valves per-cylinder, hollow 3-spoke wheels, radial tires, dual headlights (glass, not plastic lenses) swoopy bodywork, stock s.s. 4/1, light for its time, a legit. 10-sec 1/4-miler. The GSXR1100 & this were battling it out for street stocker supremacy 25 years ago. The handling was a relevation compared to what everyone else was riding. Mine is a keeper.

My advice-make the two into one as-close to stock appearance as you can get it and you will get lots of compliments and attention.

 

[DakRatFink]

The two bikes together aren't worth much to anyone. If you have one stocker not all roached-out, in stock paint and looking good and running good, it's probably a $1K bike at best. Unless you want to sell the parts you don't use, either keep the streetfighter for parts and try to get the best-looking one closest to stock to look like a nicely-kept version for your use, or swap the best parts on the one you have no title issues with and try to make a stock looking ride. people like to see an unmolested ride from that era, because the 600's typically get used-up quickly, so there aren't many out there in stock, uncrashed shape.

Whenever I go someplace on my FZR1000, because it's a stocker, people always comment on how nice it looks and then I tell them it's 25 years old and they can't believe it. I have been acquiring parts for it as spares because I want to hang-onto it as a functional bike for years to-come. There are newer, faster bikes, but few of these in good shape remain. Aluminum hollow-box perimeter frame, five valves per-cylinder, hollow 3-spoke wheels, radial tires, dual headlights (glass, not plastic lenses) swoopy bodywork, stock s.s. 4/1, light for its time, a legit. 10-sec 1/4-miler. The GSXR1100 & this were battling it out for street stocker supremacy 25 years ago. The handling was a relevation compared to what everyone else was riding. Mine is a keeper.

My advice-make the two into one as-close to stock appearance as you can get it and you will get lots of compliments and attention.

I'm leanign toward your way of thinking.

 

[arjan]

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