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1981 KZ 650H1 CSR Pods or box air filter?
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I'm new to the site and really new to working on bikes. I got ahold of a kawasaki z650h1 csr to learn to ride on and work on and I am basically taking it all apart and cleaning everything and am looking for opinions on the air filters. Just looking at the box, placement under seat, etc... it seems like pods would be the way to go because they'd be much less restricted. But like I said, I am totally new to motorcycles so any opinions, advice, etc... would be awesome. I am also curious as to the idea of jetting the carbs. What for and how to kind of stuff! Thanks!
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You can make your bike faster but modern bikes have insane hp to weight ratio's. When I had my ZRX it was twice as fast, handled 10 times better and was virtually (except the damn chain) no maintenance as with my KZ1000. My favorite saying is that "there are no free puppies"... anything you want to do is going to cost you time and money, you get a bike for cheap or free and it will cost you more to "get it right and like you want it" than if you just bought the one pretty much like you want. Just the nature of the beast, we all spend more time and money on these old bikes than we should if we were being logical but there is a certain satisfaction to that as it is our labor and vision that went into it, not just some modern off the showroom floor cookie cutter bike. Enjoy it and good luck!
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matt650csr wrote: Hello all,
...am looking for opinions on the air filters. Just looking at the box, placement under seat, etc... it seems like pods would be the way to go because they'd be much less restricted. But like I said, I am totally new to motorcycles.. I am also curious as to the idea of jetting the carbs...
Welcome to the site. You're right. Those Japanese engineers spent millions of yen designing the airbox so the bike would run well at all RPM and be faster than their competitors, but hey, what the heck did they know? They probably had never heard of pods. You're totally new to motorcycles so you don't have any of that engineering baggage or experience to interfere with your intuition regarding the effect of a much less restricted intake on a bike designed for an airbox. I say go for it since you want to learn about jetting.
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Just remember, there is nothing better than stock, absolutely nothing that's why nothing has advanced since the very first gasoline powered engine, yep those omnipotent engineers had it right and nobody can improve on it, that's why if you want your bike to run like the original engineers intended then it has to look like this or else it's just junior engineers and shade tree mechanics messing up a good thing! If it was good enough for 1885 then it's good enough forever!
Can you even FIND the carb on this thing??? :silly:
Seriously though, with those carbs just keep it simple and find an air box.
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650ed wrote:
matt650csr wrote: Hello all,
...am looking for opinions on the air filters. Just looking at the box, placement under seat, etc... it seems like pods would be the way to go because they'd be much less restricted. But like I said, I am totally new to motorcycles.. I am also curious as to the idea of jetting the carbs...
Welcome to the site. You're right. Those Japanese engineers spent millions of yen designing the airbox so the bike would run well at all RPM and be faster than their competitors, but hey, what the heck did they know? They probably had never heard of pods. You're totally new to motorcycles so you don't have any of that engineering baggage or experience to interfere with your intuition regarding the effect of a much less restricted intake on a bike designed for an airbox. I say go for it since you want to learn about jetting.
Oh man! I didn't know trucks and motorcycles were so different and that the Japanese spent so many yen on putting performance parts on these fairly low-end bikes back in '81... I wonder if the yen is still worth so much... I think a million yen is a few thousd u.s. dollars... those crazy big spending japanese folk! I appreciate your sarcasm! I was just asking because I don't know much about motorcycles but I think I will go ahead and give the japanese engineers the finger since I have a clean slate experience and intuition wise! Thanks! Haha
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