I had serious envy looking at that room at the end of the video. Even the stainless service tables at the beginning of the video are double the horizontal working space that I have. The next improvement to the garage is definitely going to be 10 or 12 feet of folding shelves/benches/tables mounted along the walls so I'll have more space for laying out parts.
I'm not quite at the point where I'm ready to pull out the engine, but I got a bunch of other stuff done. Airbox off and modified to fit new velocity stacks. Kawasaki is now gluing in the stock velocity stacks, which was a pain to remove. New air filter. AIS system removed. With all of that done, the next priority is getting an ECU flash and dyno tune, then I should be able to take my time with the transmission undercutting.
I yanked the ABS pump and brake lines off tonight, and got the replacement front line fitted and drilled for safety wire and bled. The rear line will have to wait until tomorrow. The brake lines are 'superbike' kits from Norton/Galfer with straight-in fittings to the caliper instead of conventional banjo bolts. It would have been really nice if they came pre-drilled, because it felt like I spent half the evening just very, very carefully drilling them for wire. Not much room for error compared to a conventional banjo bolt head.
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