engine pics

modprod wrote:

Head bead blasted & cylinders sand blasted.

<br><br>Post edited by: modprod, at: 2006/11/10 20:03

Where in the world did you get your hands on those old CRs? That's so cool!

Armor All works excellent on black motors to gloss them up after you wash the bike. Blow the water off, warm up the motor a little and spritz it.

Post edited by: larrycavan, at: 2006/11/12 08:08

modprod wrote:

Head bead blasted & cylinders sand blasted.

<br><br>Post edited by: modprod, at: 2006/11/10 20:03

More detail please as to the "velocity stacks" and fitment to carb and fitment to airbox. Pretty please! :lol:

larrycavan wrote:

modprod wrote:

Head bead blasted & cylinders sand blasted.

Where in the world did you get your hands on those old CRs? That's so cool!

Thanks for noticing Larry. Only the "real old school" guys remember them! I bought them new in the winter of 1980.The "Ticklers" are still good too. The bike I bought new in 1974. At one point (about 85 or 86?) I tried the Mic 33 smoothbores. They wouldn't touch the 31s with my old combination so the 31s still live on the bike today. The whole bike is a vintage "modified" (except the rear tire) of that period and still runs like it did 20+ years ago. I let a local guy ride it 2 years ago and it went a 9.43 and a 5.89 with a half dozen tries. He had trouble leaving with a standard clutch and no twostep. Go figure?

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More detail please as to the "velocity stacks" and fitment to carb and fitment to airbox. Pretty please! :lol:[/quote]

I never ran an air box with these. The velocity stacks are threaded into the air inlet side of the carbs. They had also previously used aluminum stacks but these were the "new style" in 1980. They also had spacer blocks at the front to give room for the push/pull linkage. At one point I had tried the available (at the time) shorter stacks but they did not result in better ET and only about maybe 1 mph, so I went for the ET. I have been told that these were the best flowing 31 carbs ever made? but they did atleast work on my combination.

Post edited by: modprod, at: 2006/11/12 11:21

why not go with yellow wires? accel makes themPrune1 wrote:

I like the two tone looks on these old bikes...now if I could only get green cam pulgs and gold wires!!<br><br>Post edited by: Prune1, at: 2006/11/11 15:49

I thought I recognized that motor. I have most of the pictures from another location. Love that old school stuff. Used to help run a B/Modified Z1 (The Hulk)back in the 70's a lot like yours.

racer54 wrote:

I thought I recognized that motor. I have most of the pictures from another location. Love that old school stuff. Used to help run a B/Modified Z1 (The Hulk)back in the 70's a lot like yours.

Racer, were you refering to my old C/Modified 74 Z1? If so the Suzuki in the left lane is the old B/Modified of MRE with Todd Moore riding at an IDBA race in Alabama. We had alot of fun in the "old days". If you were talking about one of the others in this thread just disregard this.

mark1122 wrote:

why not go with yellow wires? accel makes them
Ha thought about it..but with the riding season nearing the end i just threw on what wires i could find from a buddies old project. how big of wires do you guys run? 7mm 8mm 8.8mm accels?

I have 7mm.With martech coils and egnition.but that stuff got old and died, so I just got a Dyna 2000 with 8mm suppretion wires, but they only had grey.Prune1 wrote:

mark1122 wrote:

why not go with yellow wires? accel makes them
Ha thought about it..but with the riding season nearing the end i just threw on what wires i could find from a buddies old project. how big of wires do you guys run? 7mm 8mm 8.8mm accels?

Prune1 wrote:

I like the two tone looks on these old bikes...now if I could only get green cam pulgs and gold wires!!<br><br>Post edited by: Prune1, at: 2006/11/11 15:49

Here is a site were you can find green cam plugs, its about half way down the page

www.americanclassix.com/kawa_maintenance.html

JAILBAIT wrote:

Prune1 wrote:

I like the two tone looks on these old bikes...now if I could only get green cam pulgs and gold wires!!<br><br>Post edited by: Prune1, at: 2006/11/11 15:49

Here is a site were you can find green cam plugs, its about half way down the page

www.americanclassix.com/kawa_maintenance.html

i get excited everytime i look on one of those sites!

Modprod...It was the z1 you are on doing a burnout...there were even pictures with a model or your daughter or wife...whichever. There must have been about a couple dozen pictures in all. I have them in my files somewhere.