Phase one is complete!

Well, its done enough to get it one the road!

Here's the Photobucket link: s142.photobucket.com/albums/r107/samwell314/KZ1000%20Running/

Its 1978 KZ1000A2 that was completely disassembled and rebuilt over about 2.5 years in my garage.

Thanks go out to Jeff at Z1 and Joe at Redline for parts and information. As well as Falicon in FL and APE in CA for precision machine work and parts.

Also to members of KZRider for support and advice.

The electric starter is gone, its kick only and lights up with one kick from cold. Its a little finicky on warm starts, but I've still got some tuning to do. The dwell and timing light made a big diff. I've yet to synch the carbs with a Hg manoneter (they were just bench synch'd)

Whats been done to it:
1.Frame powder coated
2.tank and bodywork painted (I'm not sold on the stripes yet)
3. Supercranked by Falicon
4. low compression turbo pistons (from APE)
5. bored out to 1075cc by APE
6. Liska cam chain parts from Z1
7. APE stronger mainbearing and cylinder studs and cam chain tensioner
8. braided steel brake lines and vented discs.
9. dual disc conversion on front
10. Lots of cleaning/polishing.
11. Carb rebuild by our own WG.
12. Air horn!
13. new steering head bearings (tapered rollers)
14. new swingarm bearings
15. 530 o-ring cahin conversion

Left to do:
1.old school draw through turbo
2.various small oil leaks
3.new fuel petcock
4.alternator upgrade
5.combined reg/rect
6. sealed battery
7. fork brace
8. swing arm upgrade(weldon tubular bracing)
9. wider wheels

later...Sam

Very nice work, love that color.

Btw, what´s this? Never saw that before:

OnkelB wrote:

Very nice work, love that color.

Btw, what´s this? Never saw that before:

That is my Stebel compact air horn. It draws about 8 Amps and is really rather frightening to children and old folks! :woohoo:

Seriously though, I had to wire in a extra relay w/10amp fuse to support it. Its rated for 139 decibels!:woohoo: :silly: :woohoo:

I bought it at a BMW rally in Vermont a couple of years ago. The Twisted Throttle folks carry it: www.twistedthrottle.com/trade/productview/2137/539/

Sam

that is a electric air horn. nm he answered it right before me

139 dB!!! Damn, that´s nearly as loud as The Who.. :S

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Sweet.....

There's nothing prettier than that, good job!

Question, what pipe is that?

Old Man Rock

KZ250LTD wrote:

Very cool, thinking about the horn for the Z1 :evil: . Very nicely built bike.

Anyone know if it would be possible to wire the air horn up to the original button and but still keep the original horn wired up to a secondary button just for friendly honking situations?

you could wire the air horn on a relay that is triggered by the stock horn button. then have a switch in the relay signal line so you can disable the air horn and just use the stock horn.

Nice work Samwell! Looks great!
How does that 1075 kit feel. Noticable torque increase?
And what kind of exhaust header and muffler is that?

I thought that phase 1 was to collect underpants!

Old Man Rock wrote:

Sweet.....

There's nothing prettier than that, good job!

Question, what pipe is that?

Old Man Rock

I've been asked this a couple of times and truthfully, I'm not sure. It was on it when I bought it. The PO had the bike only a short while and it was on the bike when he got it. Its marked Pro Sport, but I haven't been able to figure it out. It sounds nice and doesn't look like its been abused too badly.

Sam

riverroad wrote:

Nice work Samwell! Looks great!
How does that 1075 kit feel. Noticable torque increase?
And what kind of exhaust header and muffler is that?

Its been so long since I road the bike before all of the work I can't really give a good comparison. Currently though it does pull nicely though the gears.

Sam