I was in a school zone, on my way to church . . .

[POWERHOUSE]

. . . and I wasn't even going over 30 miles an hour . . .

 

[nosbig]

Might need to adjust those values.

 

[Dennis]

Nitrous or turbo?

 

[POWERHOUSE]

Nitrous or turbo?

Normally aspirated ZX10 . . . go figure!

 

[GNBRETT]

yikes? who bike?

 

[Drewbush]

dropped a valve, hmm. That probably didnt sound so good when it happened.

 

[dadofthree]

 

[Bobby B]

That should buff out!

 

[captain]

little super glue and bailing wire.

 

[Dscahill]

Its a Kawasaki, they do things you're just not ready for

-D

 

[WuzzaCBXRider]

So you...ran over something resembling a busted head?

 

[Kennith Fultz]

This is your bikes way of saying, "let's go ahead and get that big bore kit".
'

 

[bigoltool]

Looks like that Valve head rattled around in there for a few revolutions! OUCH! Motor a write off, or just the head, piston and rod.

 

[POWERHOUSE]

Looks like that Valve head rattled around in there for a few revolutions! OUCH! Motor a write off, or just the head, piston and rod.

Unfortunately, the cylinder bore was damaged enough to need welding and re-chroming. What sucks about that on a ZX10 is that the cylinder and upper case are one, so that alone is about a $750 repair. The associated lifter bucket was obliterated, rods and crank are okay. A cylinder head is around 2K from Kawasaki, and it still needs an intake cam and a total rebuild. I don't have the full story from this customer, but I expect to hear that he wandered into the rev limiter a little too hard and a little too long . . .