KZ1000 oil cooler photos?
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From: Potage St. Germaine on 6 Mar 2007 11:02 On Mar 6, 4:23?am, "Hank" <u...(a)nbnet.nb.ca> wrote: > Krusty's idea of using a junkyard fan to blow on the engine is the best I > think, but, why re-invent the wheel?? Buy a LC bike similar to the KZ and > use it for the bulk of your training. While it is simpler to buy something than to start from scratch and build something *completely new*, I know for a fact the KZ-1000 will run cooler if he just richens up the idle mixture, and the cooling fan will work better than the oil cooler. Dyno operators will use box fans to cool motorcycle engines between power runs. He's not going to be using a lot of power, but he needs to keep air flowing past the cooling fins. OT: I remember the first time I ever heard the phrase, "Why re-invent the wheel?" I was puzzled by what it meant... Engineers at a certain fly-by-night company that supplied telecommunications equipment to the Saudis were disinterested in keeping up with inspection records, and everytime I would ask somebody to actually show me that an engineering order had been complied with, they would answer "Why re-invent the wheel?" And I would answer that the company wasn't involved in cutting edge research, they needed to keep howing the row until the crop was harvested. They finally had a crop failure when the Saudis didn't renew the contract for more command, control, and communication equipment to defend the kingdom.
From: The Older Gentleman on 6 Mar 2007 11:36 Potage St. Germaine <flying_booger(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > disinterested uninterested (a pedant writes)
From: The Older Gentleman on 6 Mar 2007 11:36 Mike Freeman <pi3832SPAMFILTER(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > (Except of course for Murray--he's been bored ever since Koyt went and > died on him.) Hoyt, with an H. God rest his carbonised soul. He was astonishingly good on some things, and equally appalling on others. I remember with fondness a long-running dispute over whether (of all things) a Honda 250 Rebel had vertically split crankcases, which I insisted it did. It ran for days, as he trotted out more and more "experts" and "evidence" to "prove" it was not so, and then he went and looked at one.... I think Potage or whatever he's morphed into these days is filling the gap quite nicely. "I generally steer clear of the debates which follow the initial posts." is a lovely way of saying: "When I get it hog-whimperingly wrong, I try and pretend it didn't happen."
From: The Older Gentleman on 6 Mar 2007 11:36 Potage St. Germaine <flying_booger(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > He's been getting desperate for a running internet feud, hasn't he? Nope. I'll quite happily back you when you post something relevant and accurate (which is often). But if you commit follies as well (and you do, frequently), you can expect them to be flagged up too. Like Mike says, if I make a mistake, I happily admit it. It's a very good practice to adopt.
From: James Clark on 7 Mar 2007 01:38
Potage St. Germaine wrote: > On Mar 3, 9:11?am, Mike W. > > And, since you are asking about how oil coolers were installed on > those older Kawasakis, you probably don't know that they weren't > hooked up > rationally at all. > > The aftermarket kits would take oil under pressure off the main oil > gallery. There's a plug on the right hand side of the engine that they > would remove and > install a plumbing fitting to attach the oil line. > > The oil line would be a neoprene rubber hose or a > trick-looking plastic hose covered with braided steel mesh. > > That hose would go up over the engine to the oil cooler, which had to > be mounted ahead of the rider according to AMA rules. > <snipped to prevent a narcoleptic episode> > > Back to the bogus oil cooler installation on the KZ1000. Here's where > it gets seriously stupid. The return hose from the oil cooler (mounted > ahead of the engine) would go up over the engine and empty into THE > SAME OIL PRESSURE GALLERY near the oil pressure switch!!!! > > In other words, there was NO PRESSURE DIFFERENCE between the two hoses > to cause oil to flow through the cooler! That's why you plug the passage from the "pressure switch" to the gallery. That forces all of the oil through the cooler. |