cams- what am i lookiing at

ok guys these are suppose to be j head cams but do i see a tach gear on them ? would that make them a set of csr cams? do j head cams have more lft than early kz cams? or am i seeing things? as i have seen pics of j head cams that look like they have a "blank" for a gear but its not cut.

See the round boss with grooves in it between the cam gear and the first lobe to the right on the intake cam? That's how you tell the difference between J, LTD, and CSR cams.

I know that's in the manual because that's where I read it when I was searching for J cams (because J cams have more lift and duration than LTD or CSR cams).

Got stung on eBay with a set of LTD cams that were supposed to be J cams, then lucked out and got the even better 83-84 GPz1100 cams.

Since that set has the tach drive gear, I'd say they are CSR cams.

Post edited by: steell, at: 2007/12/19 01:13

the guy was trying to tell me they were j cams from a standard do you know if the gpz 900 water pumper cams work in the kz or not?

thanks again

Post edited by: School Teacher, at: 2007/12/19 01:45

School Teacher wrote:

the guy was trying to tell me they were j cams from a standard do you know if the gpz 900 water pumper cams work in the kz or not?

thanks again<br><br>Post edited by: School Teacher, at: 2007/12/19 01:45

No they don't.

Jay

thanks

School Teacher, What do you teach?
I would get your hands on some 29mm smoothbores as you will notice a difference that you will no doubt like. I might actually sell the ones I have on my bike if I go 1327cc probably not but those are the hot set up for that bike stock or modified a bit.

i realize this is late but im a sixth grade teacher
its funny we were writing paragraphs the other day guess what i wrote about? a kz900....starting them early hehe

yep i almost got a pair off CL the other day...but its hard when you come in second on CL

School Teacher wrote:

i realize this is late but im a sixth grade teacher
its funny we were writing paragraphs the other day guess what i wrote about? a kz900....starting them early hehe

yep i almost got a pair off CL the other day...but its hard when you come in second on CL

That's funny!

Right on the Money info on the stock cam ID method as well.

Look at the boss for grooves. Model designation is as follows.

J Standard Model
Intake - One Groove
Exhaust - No Groove

1000 K[LTD]
Intake & Exhaust - 2 Grooves

1000 M[CSR]
Intake - Two Grooves
Exhaust - Tach Gear

K&M were 10* less duration than the J

Post edited by: larrycavan, at: 2008/01/15 17:30