This a good engine rebuild price?

This is a quote for my 1980 kz1000 mk2 engine.

There's some good information, and excellent service, available here:
www.pitstopperformance.com/

Good Fortune!

That is a good price. I did all the work on mine expect machine work and it still cost me about $2,800.

DobbinsCMA wrote: This is a quote for my 1980 kz1000 mk2 engine.

WOW!!
I guess when mine dies...Ill just park it. Glad I bought another bike so I got a spare!
Seems like a Dam Rip off to me!
But then again, I guess its the laws of supply and demand, as long as there are very few folks doing this,and few parts suppliers, they'll get away with charging this....to put it in perspective....Google complete Small Block Chevy rebuilt or new! I bet ya can buy one for this price or close to it!
Maybe its what it is, but that don't make it "Right"
Don't like my opinion? Sorry! Dont' care!... But it is my opinion and everyone's entitled to theirs......Just Saying
Regards
Ed

swear, when I got my bike ayear ago there was a place online that had hundreds of motors, they were rebuilders and theirs was about 2000.

sorry I dont have a link.

I have never had KZ with a bad bottom end and it seems if you just bought a piston kit and your valves did not need tipping you could hand lap them and ride on. :woohoo:

I added it up. $625 to clean, paint, and polish engine parts. You can buy an awful lot of metal polish for $625 and personally, I would not paint the engine anyway. I guess it depends on how much value you put on your spare time. If you can do some consulting work at $150 per hour it is probably worth while to pay to have them do it. If you would use that spare time to watch TV and have a beer, I would save $600+, do the cleaning/polishing myself, and have the beer while doing it since there's nothing on TV worth $600. (In fact, that's exactly what I have done in the past). :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Ed

Not for everything listed....
Sure you can accomplish slightly cheaper if doing yourself, finding used parts etc... but think bout it for a minute, this crap adds up real fast for new components.

Example:
Piston kit @ boring + shipments (postage for shipping your cylinder out plus to you) ~ $700
Camshafts $500
Head new valve, seals, guides, porting, gaskets $700
complete gasket & seal kit $100
Timing chain, guides, rollers etc... $300
Coils and ignition $300

That's $2600 right off the go if doing yourself... Now throw in all the other crap they're including, ya adds up real fast. And if you haven't done this yourself, it is time consuming...

Now throw into the price :pinch: new CR's/RS carbbies... $700
New Kerker exhaust $600-$800)

Plus they're not doing it for free just because you're a nice guy... :whistle:

Having been buying Kawasaki parts for the past ten years for five different motorcycles...and doing much of the work myself, none of the quoted prices scare me. I find it remarkable that folks are picking up old Kawasakis and not realizing that this can be a very expensive endeavor. Certainly there is a bit of price gouging, particularly on eBay, but owning/restoring old motorcycles ain't cheap.

There is a sign over a renowned motor builder's work bench that reads

Speed costs money, how much you want to spend.

The person that runs the shop is not there to break even, he is there to turn a profit.

Not a bad price. You might find some fly by night guy that will give you a deal deal price, but how is his work??

roy-b-boy-b wrote: I have never had KZ with a bad bottom end and it seems if you just bought a piston kit and your valves did not need tipping you could hand lap them and ride on. :woohoo:

I have 85k miles on the bottom end of my '79 still original. The valves do need doing regularly and I bored it at 70k, but the bottoms are strong.

Dr. Gamma wrote: Speed costs money, how much you want to spend.

That's a quote from Mad Max movie.