Greetings from southeastern VA

Greetings from N. Va.
There are quite a few websites that you can get parts from:
www.z1enterprises.com/default.aspx
www.oldbikebarn.com/
z1parts.net/
kzzone.com/
www.redlinecycle.com/ocindexmain.html
www.zpower.com.au/catalog/index.php
www.z-power.co.uk/merchantmanager/
www.partsnmore.com/


I'm sure I'm missing a few, but the more you look, the more you will find.

*edit* How could I forget: www.oldkawman.com/ :)

Kawasaki still supplies some parts, sadly, the airbox is not one of them. Take a look at the Kawasaki.com site. When you look up a part click on the part number. If it says "Active" in the window that appears you can still get it new; if it says "Cancelled" it's not available new. If you see that a part is "active" the dealer or online dealers can order it for you. Any item marked "cancelled" you need to call about because a lot of the online dealers will list every part with a price even though they cannot supply many of them. For those "cancelled" parts, such as your airbox, eBay is a pretty good source, but be positive that the item matches exactly what you need. Many sellers list stuff attributed to the wrong models. There are many other online sellers who have new old stock (NOS) parts on the shelf that they buy from dealerships that go out of business. These can be excellent sources of new parts no longer offered by Kawasaki. It takes a bit of searching online to track down some parts. Be sure to use Kawasaki.com to find the correct part number for your part and to determine which other models share your part, because many parts look very similar but won't work. In the case of your airbox, I saw some from later kz550 models that looked similar, but upon closer examination noticed the mounting brackets were not in the same location on the back of it. Just be careful not to get burned on parts that aren't quite what you need and you'll do well. Ed

Bikebandit.com and cheapcycleparts.com might carry parts for your bike.

The eastern VA VJMC is pretty active. I'm sure a google search will turn them up. There's a bike show in Warrento, VA (northern VA) being organized by a VJMC member on Sept. 3rd. Details on that are on Facebook. I'm heading up there hopefully with one or two other vintage jap bike owners from around here.

Edit:
Here's the VA VJMC Chapter: www.vjmcofvirginia.org/
and here's the Facebook group that mentions the bike show in Warrenton: www.facebook.com/#!/groups/135857263127707/

Greetings from Richmond! Nice ride

Nice bike! One of my roommates had a gpz 550 back in college. Yours looks like it has the original exhaust. He installed a header on his. I'm sure all us roomies threw out their original exhausts in the garbage when we replaced them with the aftermarket headers. If only we knew then what we know now. If I may be bold in asking, how much did you pick it for? Nice find!

Hey man, I'm orignally from Richmond too.

I just created a post over in the bike related forum about the bike show in Warrenton on Sept. 3. If any of you guys from VA are interested in meeting there, let me know.