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welcome mate...ill let the professionals tell u how to make the bike go..im much better at crashing them than fixing them...

If you have confirmed that you have:
1) Fuel (fuel in the float bowl is a good indication)
2) Spark (as mentioned earlier) &
3) Air (this is easy, just check you dont have a seriously fouled air filter)

If all of these look good and the starter is turning the motor over quickly ie: not labouring... it should start. UNLESS, you have no compression. A motor with a blow head gasket will turn over all day, but never start. Check your coolant for signs of contamination.

PS.
I am not a mechanic nor do I claim to know anything about mechanics...

oh..i just figured it out....u bought a shitbox kwaka, and u shoulda bought a honda..yea, thats it

Used to have a ZXR750 J1 (1991) and there was a safety cut out on the clutch lever (a little contact switch) when the lever was worn it used to lose contact and stop the bike turning over (just a thought)
The pic below should show ya why there are holes in the tank.

Oh BTW, welcome aboard, the ZXR,s are awsome bikes.

Smitty wrote:will have a look in the manual tonite
can scan and post a few 'Troubleshooting' pages
..snip..

cheers

just a few more thoughts...
fuel pump working...?
vacuum valve ok...?

CHEERS everyone for the help and welcome nice friendly bunch you lot are

James, your a gun, love those lights and they're gunna look tops on the front of the ZXR any idea what the next money pit is gunna be or not quite at that stage yet?

well, i played with it a bit more tonight, looks like i found the issue. all those that were betting on the plugs, go collect your money while i had spark with the OLD plugs that came in my box of goodies, the plugs in the bike were stuffed completely, not a sceric of sparkage to be found. i've stuck the old ones in now and it runs, but only one had a GOOD spark so its running pretty ruff.

i'll grab some new plugs on friday and i'll also give the carbs a run with some carbie cleaner spray and clean the air filter and box. might aswell change the oil and filter at the same time i spose and make it a full service.

overall, pretty happy with the bike. runs a bit ruff at the moment but the motor feels nice and solid. and even tho its a good 10kg or more heavier than my thundercat, its feels HEAPS more nimble so i'm rapt with that. heh, not regretting this purchase as much as i was last night now

again, thanks y'all. be good to get to know a few of you

Gday coconuts..........i am guessing this is the bike you bought. I was checking out the classifieds the other night. Looks like it will be loads of fun when you get the mighty zxr running sweet(bulletproof).

thats my bike

12 bar is gone, stunt sprockets and chain are going back to stock (got the stock setup with the bike aswell), gunna paint all the plastics nice gloss black, have an awesome light and screen setup thanks to james there.....

overall, this thing should rock once i'm done. not gunna be a huge amount of money in it, just a bit of time. results should be worth it tho, i love streetfighters

99coconuts wrote: i'll grab some new plugs on friday and i'll also give the carbs a run with some carbie cleaner spray and clean the air filter and box. might aswell change the oil and filter at the same time i spose and make it a full service.

overall, pretty happy with the bike. runs a bit ruff at the moment but the motor feels nice and solid. and even tho its a good 10kg or more heavier than my thundercat, its feels HEAPS more nimble so i'm rapt with that. heh, not regretting this purchase as much as i was last night now

That's good. Rough running is no problem, just need fine tunings. I reckon you need to do carb balancing as well while you're there. When cleaning the carbs don't try to save. Spray HEAPS of them. I did mine with half a can

Welcome aboard, good to hear you got it sorted.
Looking forward to pics as you progress on it. Gonna look pretty sweet I reckon.

Welcome aboard mate...

welcome mate