Drouin supercharger

You could set up a good solid street turbo motor for nothing more than the price of the rebuild/replacement of worn parts.
The biggest thing id definately reccomend is having the crank checked/welded,other than that you could even get by with stock pistons on a low boost engine as long as you had your ignition sorted out.
Stock valves with a good valve job/good springs,stock cams............
youd run out of balls/chassis/traction on a stock chassised street bike before you ran out of motor! :woohoo:

roy-b-boy-b wrote: I think Jeff told me it would cost me about $3500.00 to set up a nice turbo engine.

Here is one ready to go. Roy

cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1977-KAWASAKI-KZ...&hash=item2eba27162a

Can't imagine a passenger trying to hold on at full tilt while using the foot pegs attached at bottoms of shocks. :woohoo:

Better have had lots of practice on a pogo stick. :lol:

roy-b-boy-b wrote: I think Jeff told me it would cost me about $3500.00 to set up a nice turbo engine.

Here is one ready to go. Roy

cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1977-KAWASAKI-KZ...&hash=item2eba27162a

Yeah ive been watching that one.
Id say its a little much for the kid,but Im old and dont care about living forever anymore! :woohoo:

Patton wrote:

roy-b-boy-b wrote: I think Jeff told me it would cost me about $3500.00 to set up a nice turbo engine.

Here is one ready to go. Roy

cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1977-KAWASAKI-KZ...&hash=item2eba27162a

Can't imagine a passenger trying to hold on at full tilt while using the foot pegs attached at bottoms of shocks. :woohoo:

Better have had lots of practice on a pogo stick. :lol:

If hes still running that corbin seat Id think the footpegs are the last thing a passenger has to worry about! :woohoo:

I can handle lots of power, its just tossing it around like a regular bike that im worried about. I suck at cornering. But if i hit a wet patch on the pavement with my bike, i usually just tear ass and spin the tire till it dries off I should be getting a job soon, like after the first so ill have some money. Im going to go to Western Iowa Tech to take the riders course so i can get a motorcycle license before im 18.. maybe that'll help out with my shitty cornering skills also, ill have some cash to do whatever i want with after i get a car and fix what needs fixed on my bike right now. I think the old girl needs a valve job pretty bad. If i really got some money flowing in ill be boring it out as well with pistons/rings. i do plan on getting higher lift cams for it too and a good set of valve springs. before i do that though, i gotta buy the car i crashed off of my grandma so i can get back and forth to work. So naturally, right now money is holding everything up. I sent an email to a guy from magnisun superchargers and he gave me a lead to a guy that manufactures superchargers for alot of motorcycle type applications. Still though, from the sounds of it i should probably get a turbo working on my bike and then probably go crazy and see what the hell im capable of combining with that for maximum awesomeness

I would wait until you got a few years of riding before I jumped on a bike with that much power. Roy

Kitten Tooth wrote: I can handle lots of power, its just tossing it around like a regular bike that im worried about. I suck at cornering. But if i hit a wet patch on the pavement with my bike, i usually just tear ass and spin the tire till it dries off I should be getting a job soon, like after the first so ill have some money. Im going to go to Western Iowa Tech to take the riders course so i can get a motorcycle license before im 18.. maybe that'll help out with my shitty cornering skills also, ill have some cash to do whatever i want with after i get a car and fix what needs fixed on my bike right now. I think the old girl needs a valve job pretty bad. If i really got some money flowing in ill be boring it out as well with pistons/rings. i do plan on getting higher lift cams for it too and a good set of valve springs. before i do that though, i gotta buy the car i crashed off of my grandma so i can get back and forth to work. So naturally, right now money is holding everything up. I sent an email to a guy from magnisun superchargers and he gave me a lead to a guy that manufactures superchargers for alot of motorcycle type applications. Still though, from the sounds of it i should probably get a turbo working on my bike and then probably go crazy and see what the hell im capable of combining with that for maximum awesomeness

slow down there hotrod! :woohoo:
Thats a really big jump in hp youre talking about there,do these things in baby steps so you dont go out there and get yourself or somebody else hurt.
A very wise man whos no longer among us told me at very young age that if it doesnt scare the hell out of you every time you crack that throttle open its time to park it and rethink things till youre ready to handle it.
He also told me a stock z1 was capable of leaving a guy hurt really bad or dead just as quick as a stock 1000(thats all we had to compare things to back in the late 70s so work with me here! )
Any time you start thinking youve got things under control that bike is more than capable of giving you a reality check

I agree, slow down hotrod. RESPECT that it has the ability to leave you mamed or dead every time you throw a leg over it. I don't care if it makes 5hp or 500hp, it can and will kick your butt when you least expect it! There isn't a man on here that hasn't layed one down and I'll bet he'll tell you he didn't expect it unless someone else caused it. I've had more stitches at one time from a gokart and it wasn't from a wreck but a chain guard failure, didn't see that one coming. Put a bike down at the track, Clutch cable broke at half throttle while staging, that was a trip! Just saying, be patient and cautious, it's for your own good and your family will thank you for it.

oohhh noo i didnt mean it like that.. i have a very great respect for these machines. I understand, any bike even a damn moped, is like a loaded handgun. Guys, my 13hp riding lawnmower kinda creeps me out my grandpa told me the same exact thing.. "The moment that bike doesnt scare you is the moment you park it in the garage." I dont just think i can handle a big bike, i have confidence in myself to be able to... i guess hang on to it Remember in my last post i said i had to buy the car i crashed off of my grandma? Well it might have just been a little 2.4 liter 4 cylinder that didnt even have a manual transmission, but i didn't listen to my dad when he said i wasnt experienced enough to have people in the car with me. Next thing i know, i have a dumb girl in the car changing the radio station from TNT Acdc to Sweet Child O' mine and taking my eyes off the road. THEN I BIG BUICK JUMPED OUT IN FRONT OF ME!! but you guys get the idea..

And Good ol' tim likes his ACDC

:woohoo:

FYI - You can surely run a supercharged KZ on the street. The issue that I have revolves around idle. Mine idles at 2,500 and maybe with a fine tuned carb it would be different... I using the Drouin manual fuel injector. The idle at lights is annoying with my straight pipes and will he that sucker up quickly.

I have the water/Alky injector setup, but rarely use it now, since I don't ride the bike for extended periods. The water cools and condenses the fuel mixtures. I usually run a mixture of 50/50 water and isopropyl.

I also has stock starter and it turns it just fine. slower - but just fine.

Midway down this page on the left is a red download - it has more details about my bike
Here

You can make a new supercharger.. it is all about money. Someone from the east coast contacted me... He was making a KZ supercharger from scratch using the new small displacement Eaton blower. I ask... why? For all the engineering or reverse-engineering costs, just go turbo, which is still readily available. You still need to build the engine to handle the boost.

As for the J model engine, you should be fine, sine displacement is similar. Using the 15lb boost gears 'zed' from the UK was able to get boost from his overbored KZ, prior to that he was not getting to boost - using the standard 8lb set-up.

Most of all... LEARN to ride. It is far cooler to smoke a guy on an R1 through the turns on a 500 twin then it is to go fast only on the straights (excluding drag racing). When I was young I had a guy on a Goldwing make me look silly on the supercharged bike as we went into a set of turns... but that did convince me to get some training. Spend the money and do a Superbike School or the like and learn the mechanics of turning the bike!