APE Engine

I was out checking on a engine today trying to sort it out. I believe it was a 1470 APE cylinders, worked over head, Mikuni flat slides, and a set of web cams that I can't identify.

The markings were, Web 796 With a 1.080 base circle below that was 805.

Any help please !!! Thank you.

Here is the bike if the pic will up load. It sounds wicked.

Nice bike Roy

The cams are a custom grind. 1.085" base circle tells me they're a hot street / mild race grind. If you call or email them, they'll be able to give you the lift & duration. They make a lot of cams that are not listed on their site.

Granted I'm not into the bobber theme but this is a clean build just the same. The builder obviously thought it out, put some $$$ into it and seems to have at least done it right.... Well done!

Roy, you know the builder, you buying this bike...?

it appears to be a mk11 motor. Atleast the stator cover and valve cover are mk11 covers.

Thanks CRH. It is a cam under bucket but the head is not relieved as much as the 900 dirt drag engine. The bad part is you have to pull the engine to remove the cam covers.

The engine came out of a 79 LTD .

The bike was built to show. It was from Wisconsin I think. It was a bank repo. I have never see a cleaner built bike. The welds are so smooth and blended in that it is amazing.

The bike was bought by a friend of mines Son. He got the bike for less than 10 grand.

I had seen the bike in a shop where I had gone to work on another Kawasaki. They had attempted to get it running good but the owner came and got it and took it to the store where they bought it. They had a fuel pump installed which didn't help any.

I thought the bike was just built for looks being the main goal and not performance. I took some clear fuel line with me and remover the fuel pump after starting the bike and watching the fuel pump out the carbs.

I rerouted the fuel lines like the builder had them over the top of the engine after insulating the fuel line.

It had a Dyna 200 and 2.2 coils. The timing was not set and we set it to a basic timing. and the bike will fire off like a stock bike.

The pistons are low compression.

Did I mention the engine has to be removed to adjust the shim under bucket set up ? :blink:

roy-b-boy-b wrote: ...The bad part is you have to pull the engine to remove the cam covers....

That's certainly a most undesirable situation. :pinch:

What modification is preventing normal removal of the cam cover?

Does the lack of clearance result from a frame modification?

What is the cam cover hitting against to prevent sufficient clearance for its removal?

Good Fortune!

Patton, The backbone has 1/2 of clearance from the cam cover. If the oil pan were removed and the motor mounts were removed the engine would slide right out.

The owner needs a throttle cable right now. They are custom built controls that look like they are for a Harley based bike being that they are one inch. The only markings I found on the controls are a J.

That bike sure does look good, as said a lot of thought and energy went into it. One thing I would worry about is with the obvious power this thing has that hanging on to it will be a serious consideration. Looks like one slip of the clutch and it's out from under you....between the forward controls and that seat with no backstop nothing but the bars to keep you on it. Apart from that it's :evil: :evil: :evil:

Wow that thing is sexy :ohmy:

That bike was for sale for nearly a year here in Milwaukee. I thought the guy had it listed as running?

good lookin bike but,,,,,bought it for under 10K wow
brings the old saying in mind a fool and his money soon parted

Tell him can have this for 10k

The bike does run. It just wasn't tuned right and had too many mechanics working on it. None of them took the trouble to check the jetting , timing or the plug wires which I had found were installed wrong.

The owner told me the bike would not hook up period. In any gear. He is undecided about what to do about the bike. There is a lot of money in the engine so I told him to drop it into a KZ frame and sell the frame. I know a guy that has a few frames.