Exactly HOW different are KZ750 seats?

Hey, I've about torn my hair out (what remains, anyway) trying to find a replacement seat for my '82 CSR750. I see them all over for the 750 B, the H, and the N, but not the K or M! Sheesh, do I ever find the white elephants! You'd think CSR750 parts were gold-plated.

I found one on ebay for an E, a model which I've never seen before. It looks just like the CSR seat, but what do I know? I don't have frame specs for them all to see if any others will work, nor do I have the factory CD to tell me what the part numbers are, so I'd be totally guessing. Considering the seller wants close to a hundred shipped, that's an expensive guess to be wrong! I also found a guy in MN parting out a CSR, but he wants TWO hundred for his newly-recovered seat!

So, just how different were the KZ750 frames? Can I use the "E" seat, is there such a thing, could I use a seat from a more-popular B or H instead?

TIA!

Not sure, but I'd bettheCSR and LTD usethe sameseat.

For part numbers go here. www.kawasaki.com/OwnerInfo/

Click onParts Diagrams under Owner Info

Well, Kaw's site gave me a P/N 53001-1163. A quick google brought me to Partzilla, which notes the seat being used on the CSR750 ('82-83) and the '83-84 KZ750K1 LTD and K2 (Canada only).

That said, I guess it'll be a crapshoot as to whether any other will ACTUALLY fit- it'll just be a matter of getting something else and trying it, then trying to resell it if it doesn't work. I'm kinda surprised I'm the only one encountering this, it seems, or else someone might have put together a seat cross-reference by now. Maybe it's my calling, I don't know!

I'm going to see if I can wrangle some funds to try to get that E seat, and go from there.

Nick

You'll probably have to get a seat from an 82-84 750-Twin. Or recover yours.
I think the earlier B & G models are different & probably any 750-4 seat as well (E/F/H/L/N/R).
Unless someone chimes in, it's kind of a crap shoot --- but if you're going to roll the dice, I think you might have better luck trying an 80s KZ1000 (probably 81-on) or maybe an 1100.

Edit: Partzilla has a cross reference but it isn't always correct.
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Yeah, I got that much, which is how I got the P/N. I can't recover my seat, because my CSR did not come with one. That is, it DID come with a seat, but it's originally from a CMX450 Honda, which probably looks fine on the Honda, but is the most garish thing when placed atop a KZ! I've been perched on plywood since, because that princess-pillow was just too much.

Gonna keep looking and praying, thanks for the help.

You'd think something like a seat would be easy, but there isn't much interchange between model types. The fuel tanks are the same way. I needed one for my 81 650-CSR & before I knew anything, I got a very nice one for the 750-CSR (your bike): the tank was different --- it had a mounting tab at the back & no bung for a low fuel switch --- mine mounts w a bolt & has 2 bungs. doh.

n9viw wrote: Yeah, I got that much, which is how I got the P/N. I can't recover my seat, because my CSR did not come with one. That is, it DID come with a seat, but it's originally from a CMX450 Honda, which probably looks fine on the Honda, but is the most garish thing when placed atop a KZ! I've been perched on plywood since, because that princess-pillow was just too much.

Gonna keep looking and praying, thanks for the help.

I removed the stock seat from my '80 kz750g and am not going to be reusing it with the mods I'm doing, seat pan is a tad rusty but the cover is in good shape, would you be interested in it?

Shoot some pics and details to my inbox, I may indeed be interested. I bent my mind to making my own seat, but it's not working out well- plywood, foam, vinyl, tacks, fail. LOL!

Ok I will do so after work today

Sorry couldn't figure out how to message from tapatalk, here is the seat, its stock from a 1980 kz750g (twin)

a lot of the seats might look similar but the seat pans might be different by the way they attach to the frame

SMB: Could you take a pic of the underside? The top looks fantastic, but I know the different tanks on the KZs (KZ vs CSR) affect the fitment of the front of the seat.

And Gomer, while the pan may be different, I think it might be worth my while to try to fab up a different mount, because as I said, the CSR seats are dang near impossible to find. I was even trying to find a way to fit the Corbin seat from my '73 CB350 to the CSR! Desperate times, etc.