Yamaha FZR600 Racer Part 2 - Cut And Shut
Classic Motorcycle Mechanics|September 2018

It’s carb fiddling and plastic cutting for our mate Brooksie with his FZR600 ‘homage’ racer!

Paul Brookes
Yamaha FZR600 Racer Part 2 - Cut And Shut

Hello again! First off, I hope you liked my first article a few issues ago, where this aging racer has decided to relive times way-back-when!

To recap, I won the 1989 British Supersport Championship on a Yamaha FZR600 and want to build a – well – ’homage’ I suppose is the best thing to call it. It’s going to be fairly faithful to the original but have some upgraded/better parts. So, what’s occurring this month?

Well, the tiny lithium-ion battery worked a treat once it was charged. I figured I’d give the old girl a go, so I changed the plugs for some new ones and tried starting the engine. I made sure the carbs were full and blow me if the little old thing started second touch of the button! Blimey, I didn’t expect that at all but was made up. Okay, so it ran a bit lumpy but it was still with the standard carb settings, so that can be sorted.

To that end a Dynojet kit was ordered for the carbs and when it arrived I set about fitting that. Well, what a trip down memory lane that was: it’d been about 28 years since I last fitted one of these and going the right way about it had long since been erased from my tiny brain. So after a chat with Ashley Law again to ensure I didn’t screw it up (ahem), the job was done.

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