Late Style Tailpiece and Seat to Early Conversion

I have a 1981 KZ1000 LTD, I much prefer the Early style tail sections and seat options.

How hard is it to fit an earlier tailpiece on these later bikes? Some things I've read said it involves cutting off the frame supports and welding on earlier ones, other reports say just add in bolt brackets, which seems really simple.

I'd also like to run one of these Corbin Gunfighter seats, but it seems they stop at the same time the tailpiece I want to run stop. Can one of these be fitted to a later frame? Or am I stick having the stock pan recovered and reshaped?

Pics under the seat and lets compare.
Steve

Get the rear hoop off of an older kz frame and graft it on to youre frame.

Now granted these arent my photos but sourced from the web. The top photos are a 1977 frame, the bottom photos are a 1982 frame, They dont look significantly different to me. The "hump" under the seat is different, but the length and angle look pretty close.

1977:

1982:

Is the top one some version of a z1r frame maybe? I cant see the doubled up down tubes in the picture though.
Either way the back half is differant than a regular kz frame.
Bottom one looks like some sort of j series cop bike frame.

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Steve

I did just this on my CSR (pretty much an LTD) as I wanted to kill the japarley and put a bit of zedness into the bike.You dont get much zedder than the ducktail.
I bought a Z900 fiberglass replica off ebay. It was too narrow to drop straight on so I cut it down the middle and fiberglassed it together.
Details are in my build thread somewhere around here;
www.kzrider.com/forum/11-projects/594313...oject-build?start=80
It wont help you with fitting a corbin seat though.
I whacked off all the brackets on the frame and made a new seat pan (fiberglass again).It was my first time using fiberglass and though it was messy and smelly,it was very easy to use,gave a good result and wadges of satisfaction (as well as a nasty rash on my arms and hands!)
Good luck

iwish4a69camaro wrote:
1977:

this is a z1r frame.
basically the same as kz/ltd but the seat mounts are totally different than the kz seat mounts.

jim if you make the picture big you can just make out the overlaid tubing on the front down tube.

leon

davido wrote: I bought a Z900 fiberglass replica off ebay. It was too narrow to drop straight on so I cut it down the middle and fiberglassed it together.
Details are in my build thread somewhere around here;
www.kzrider.com/forum/11-projects/594313...oject-build?start=80

This was really promising information, thank you very much!

Man, you say you paid $500 for the bike you have, just clean it up, buff the paint, get it buzzing good and strong and sell it for the earlier style kz (you even said you wanted a kickstart bike. Bwammo! 2 for 1. i've bought about a dozen kz900/1000 in the past five years, cheapest was $300 and ran like a mad man. Hold out for the bike you want.

Pound the pacement, make a few rounds, put up an ad or two and you may have what you're looking for in short order.