What would you build id you had more time, or money?

Reroute the clutch cable and a little chain lube, he coulda got $75.

 

I would build a no holds barred RC51 with all the juicy parts I could throw at it. I loved that bike even though it was a heavy poor handling pig.

 

Well shiiit if you’re going to throw that down, than I see your rc51 build and go all in with a Yosh built TLR1000

 

TLR would be tasty. I’ve seen the only non kit built, non bitsa, surviving factory TLR. Crevier’s bike more of a bitsa than one straight off the track according to info from inside Yosh. They are trick.
Nothing close to production on them, and next to nothing findable for them because of the short track life. With the demise of the Yosh/Suzuki team, the Crevier’s likely in Japan by now, saved from the crusher by the race team after its demise.
I have a single works injector for one that came with the dry clutch parts I have and have seen a body set that came off Pegram’s bike that shares a garage with a very clean, nicely outfitted street bike.

 

Your wife is already a better build than you could improve on. I would gladly contribute if she wants to build a new YOU

long time bud, hope you are well

 

Rc 30,or 45,but I would prefer to find one already molested.

 

Good News! There's one on Iconic that is definitely not stock. And definitely has more things going on than whats in the ad.

 

I saw that,then spent hrs looking at previously sold bikes!Talk about going down a rabbit hole!

 

I'd just buy a Paton 500. Well two actually, an old one and a new one.

 

What later TZ cylinders would fit on an RZ250? All later TZ's are case reeded.

 

Sick stuff

Sick stuff ! Alot of it's in So Cal.

 

One four valve and one eight valve?

 

R1 powered R7. The original R7 not the twin.

 

Fair point, I thought they went to cylinder reed til 89.

 

The first case reed TZ was the 85 N model, The last forward-facing TZ was the 87 T model, the 88- 90 were reverse cylinders, and the 91 was the first V-twin. There are a lot of great after-market bolt-on options for the RZ from stock displacement up to 441 cc's and up to 500cc's with machine work

 

I would build a supermono from a Ducati 1299 motor.

 

Nice. I remember reading about Tularis. Whatever happened to that bike?

 

I have and had CPI cylinder stuff , I really wanted an all Yamaha throwback. I don't think an all TZ build would be much more expensive than some of the cheetahs I've seen.

 

The first Gen TZ's (1973-1980) engines are the exact same outside profile as the RDlc and the RZ's the difference is the motor mounts, it would not be difficult to setup an RZ chassis to take the TZ motor. I have a close ration dry clutch RZ transmission (brand new) and for a reasonable sum you can get a set of banshee cylinders (non PV) ported to put you in the mid 80's HP range, I have the pipe specs, it is the most loginal thing to make a TZ replica from. In the alternative, I have a 26J (83) TZ250 complete with a NOS chassis, Swingarm, and shock, with the balance of the parts including a couple of wheel choices to assemble a real TZ that I would part with.