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I recently acquired an 82 GPZ550 and have been on this site before reading info regarding carbs on this bike and just joined up today. I thought I would say Hello to all. I may be a newb to your forum but am a member on some other motorcycle forums.
This is my first Kawasaki and I just love this thing
The only plans I have for it are to bring her back to her former glory with a new paint job, replace a couple of missing/broken pieces (like the tail light), basically a resto job
I have a few other rides but they are all Honda's

Here is my GPZ





Sorry its sideways.......dont know why that happened

Welcome Kamn

Welcome.
There goes my neck again.
Steve

sorry about that
And I don't know how I posted this in the engine category?

maybe one of the Moderators would be kind enough to move this over to the correct area?

Welcome to KZR...very cool paint job. That is the 'Sonic Gold' option for the 1982 model...it may not have been available in the USA but certainly was in Canada (the other gold GPz550's I'm aware of were all from Canada). Interestingly, the Canadian 1982 GPz750 was also available in Sonic Gold (in addition to the common Firecracker Red). However, the 1982 GPz1100 was available in Sonic Gold only in Australia and Europe.

Done.
Steve

Welcome aboard! Looks like a nice bike. Ed

Thanks Steve

And yes, its the sonic gold which is a pain in the rear to find a paint code for.........so if anyone knows it and would like to share it, that would be awesome.

Its a low mileage bike, only 16,000 KM on the bike and pretty original
The only thing that was wrong with the bike, was a hesitation when taking off in first gear. I just thought it needed a cleaning/rebuild on the carbs, so i took them off and disassembled them and into the ultra sonic they went, thats when I noticed that someone was already into the carbs before and forgot to put back the needle jet for cylinder #3.........dumb asses
Once I got the resolved, it runs smooth. I also went ahead and replaced the clutch springs then adjusted the clutch, swapped out the fork springs for progressives but i think I will just end up getting some springs from Racetech and their emulators.

Thats better

Thanks Ed

You're welcome. It almost looks silver. Pic of your CB Honda? Almost bought one.
Steve

No pics of the CB, its still in its bad barn shape but I have everthying to rebuild it