Nut-and-bolt on the king of the 70s, the awesome Kawasaki Z1-900.

Everyone that's into old motorcycles enjoys a great "barn find" story. This one is a step beyond. This poor neglected bike was parked out BEHIND an old shed, and there it sat for many years. My customer needed some parts for his restoration, saw some potential donors on this bike, and so dragged out out of there, pulled off the parts, and sent them off to us. And although the vapor blaster can't replace the missing metal on the worst of the two valve covers you'll see in the

We got a really nice set of parts in from a member of the excellent SOHC4 web forums (http://forums.sohc4.net/) for a little tune-up. These were really nice parts to start with, in excellent condition overall, but the valve cover had been polished and didn't look great, and the side covers had a normal amount of scratches and scuffs and clearcoat damage for 45 year old parts. We can fix that! We also did a little hand work for this customer, sanding out some heavy scratches o

This was another interesting project - my poor customer got some bad advice on chemicals for his ultrasonic cleaner, used one that was too alkaline, and got some nasty corrosion on his V4 Honda carbs. This took some gentle coaxing with both the vapor blaster and the ultrasonic cleaner, but sure enough, the finish was restored and the carbs returned spotlessly cleaned, inside and out. The customer was DELIGHTED to say the least. Our pleasure! This project took about an hour an

This is an excellent project to demonstrate the capabilities of our Vapor Blasting process, and show some of the results. This is a batch of older Ducati parts: The crankcase is from a Ducati Pantah, the other parts were from other Ducati motorcycles of that same era. Pay close attention to the surface of the parts in the first few photos - these parts had been broken down and stored for many years, and so the surfaces became heavily oxidized inside and out. Parts in this con