KZ 650 Turbo'd drag bike, old school

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KZ 650 Turbo'd drag bike, old school

10 Sep 2009 17:39
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Here is a craigslist bike.
For anyone into 650 and turbo's and drags.
He sez its street legal.
Nice veiwing!

buffalo.craigslist.org/mcy/1364286703.html
Livin in "CheektaVegas, NY
Went thru 25 of these in 40 yrs.
I SOLD OUT! THE KAW BARN IS EMPTY.
More room for The Old Girl, Harley 75 FLH Electra Glide,
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Re: KZ 650 Turbo'd drag bike, old school

10 Sep 2009 19:43
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looks like a cool bike,but thats a lot of money.anything that sits for 20 years is gonna need lots of help to bring back to 100%,thats a long time for the springs to hold them valves open without going flat not to mention stuck rings ............ :laugh:
Still recovering,some days are better than others.

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Re: KZ 650 Turbo'd drag bike, old school

11 Sep 2009 05:27
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i've seen that one in person.
didn't get to ride it because he knew i would not come back.
it sounds wild though.
to bad it's out of my price range.
someday i will be able to afford my kz habit.

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Re: KZ 650 Turbo'd drag bike, old school

11 Sep 2009 10:00 - 11 Sep 2009 10:01
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He says he's got the record certificates. I'd like to see them. I was heavily into drag racing during that time frame and I can't recall that motorcycle. Very few if any guys ever made a KZ650 run with a turbo. Guys I knew that drag raced KZ1000 turbos clear down in the 8 sec range could not make a KZ650 work. Too small, not enough airflow to get the turbo spinning, they would run good on the top end, but sit there the first 60ft for 4 seconds.
321,000 miles on KZ's that I can remember. Not going to see any more.
Last edit: 11 Sep 2009 10:01 by RonKZ650.

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Re: KZ 650 Turbo'd drag bike, old school

12 Sep 2009 15:42
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launch it on the bottle and hold it on the two step and that will solve the spooling up issue.
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Re: KZ 650 Turbo'd drag bike, old school

12 Sep 2009 16:47 - 12 Sep 2009 16:55
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:laugh:
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Re: KZ 650 Turbo'd drag bike, old school

12 Sep 2009 23:05
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come on Plummen quit pretending like that mess will ever be a motorcycle again.

































thinking that if I bust your balls it may make you build faster :silly: :lol: :P :) ;)
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bought it because I was told it would never run again...I like to prove people wrong.

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Re: KZ 650 Turbo'd drag bike, old school

20 Sep 2009 13:23
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a man has to have prioritys work or bike work or bike tough call eat or overload the old pacemaker tough choices all the way around
1973 z1 2-1974z1-a,2-1975z1-b dragbikes1015cc+1393cc, 1977kz1000,1978kz1000,1981kz1000j, 1997 zx-11, 2000 z12r,1428turbo nitrous pro-mod and a shit load of parts thats all for now leader sask.,CANADA
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Re: KZ 650 Turbo'd drag bike, old school

20 Sep 2009 17:08 - 20 Sep 2009 17:09
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hardr0ck68 wrote:
come on Plummen quit pretending like that mess will ever be a motorcycle again.


































thinking that if I bust your balls it may make you build faster :silly: :lol: :P :) ;)



careful rocco, old plummen might be heading to our neck of the woods next summer. :laugh:


with winter comming up, i DO expect to see more progress being made though.
someday i will be able to afford my kz habit.
Last edit: 20 Sep 2009 17:09 by kawsakiman. Reason: because i can't type for shit

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Re: KZ 650 Turbo'd drag bike, old school

21 Sep 2009 11:18
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I remember this bike and have the Hot Bike magazine issue it was featured in, but it's packed a way in storage at the momemnt while our house eats the $10K that should have been my new engine.... Seems to me the pics of his IDBA or Dragbike! record certificates were in there too. Upstate NY boys iirc, used to show up at Cayuga the odd Sunday back in the day - there were a bunch of NY guys with real fast turbo bikes.
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79 KZ 1500 MKll dragbike
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1 X 75 Z1B

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