KZ1000 oil cooler photos?
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From: Mike W. on 12 Mar 2007 21:08 On 8 Mar 2007 19:04:14 -0800, "Potage St. Germaine" <flying_booger(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >On Mar 7, 10:58?pm, Mike W. <outof...(a)emailbiz.com> wrote: > >> Thanks yet again. This one I was aware of but your explanation is the best >> I've seen. I'm assuming you're a former KZ owner... no? > >I never owned one, but my friends would often show up on old >California Highway Patrol or Los Angeles Police Department KZP's that >they had bought at auction, and I would get a chance to ride one. > >Another guy bought a new one for funeral escort use. >Last time I looked they were certainly the cheapest 1000cc machine. > >One of my friends works as a car and motorcycle mechanic at Foothill >Division and we would talk about >the problems the officers had with chains that only lasted 4000 miles >when used for pursuit, etc. He'd be a cool guy to know if you're restoring one of these:) I believe they went from a 530(?) to a 620(?) chain around '02. > >While I was thinking about your oil cooler installation, another thing >that occurred to me was whether a heavy duty oil pump is available, or >if there were aftermarket >oil pump drive gears like Vance & Hines sold for Suzukis. Thanks for the tip.. I'll be looking into that. Mike > >Installing the V&H oil pump gears doubled my GS-1100's oil pressure. > > -- Mike W. 96 XR400 99 KZ1000P 70 CT70 71 KG 100 (Hodaka-powered)
From: Mike W. on 12 Mar 2007 21:13 On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 21:48:41 -0000, "John" <bravo6(a)gofree.indigo.ie> wrote: >> >If you havn't bought the bike yet, why not go for a liquid cooled model > >John > I have a pretty irrational attachment to it:) Mike -- Mike W. 96 XR400 99 KZ1000P 70 CT70 71 KG 100 (Hodaka-powered)
From: Potage St. Germaine on 12 Mar 2007 22:00 On Mar 12, 5:08?pm, Mike W. <outof...(a)emailbiz.com> wrote: > On 8 Mar 2007 19:04:14 -0800, "Potage St. Germaine" > >One of my friends works as a car and motorcycle mechanic at Foothill > >Division and we would talk about > >the problems the officers had with chains that only lasted 4000 miles > >when used for pursuit, etc. > > He'd be a cool guy to know if you're restoring one of these:) I believe > they went from a 530(?) to a 620(?) chain around '02. KZ1000's used a big 630 (3/4 inch) pitch chain from the get go, so far as I know. But later model 530 (5/8 inch ) pitch chains were made of improved materials that had 10,000 pounds tensile strength and it makes sense to me to use the small chain because it's more flexible. The Hayabusa and the ZX14 went to 630 chains because they are so powerful. > > >While I was thinking about your oil cooler installation, another thing > >that occurred to me was whether a heavy duty oil pump is available, or > >if there were aftermarket > >oil pump drive gears like Vance & Hines sold for Suzukis. > > Thanks for the tip.. I'll be looking into that. I thought I threw my V&H catalogs away when I moved, but I found two old ones. They list the Suzuki oil pump gears but don't show any gears for the Kawasakis. Which is not to say that some other speed shop who specialized in Kawasakis didn't supply gears for racers.
From: Bob Scott on 13 Mar 2007 16:23 >On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 01:48:14 -0500, Mike W. wrote: > >> On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:58:33 GMT, Bob Scott <bob(a)bobandaileen.co.uk> >> wrote: >>> >>>So what else is in the cop world over your way? >>> >>>Round these parts marked plod bikes are either Pan Europeans (Honda >>>St1100) or BMs (usually K12 or R1100RTs). >> >> In my neck of the woods, it's predominantly Harleys, though there are >> some BMW's showing up. The HD seems to be most suited to the urban >> mission, and the BMW to the interstate mission. I think there's one >> department left in New England with KZP's. > I was at the bike show in Edinburgh this past weekend & the Police stand had, in amongst all the usual road safety promotional bumf, a black Yamaha R1 with 2 fluorescent flashes on it's front... and a video camera behind the screen - you're not going to outrun a police rider on that unless you're very, very quick :-) There was also, on the Z1 owners club stand, a KZP - I've never seen one before & it was a nice change from all the Eddie Lawson replicas. ISTR that Yorkshire police tried a Harley a few years back but abandoned it pretty quickly as hopelessly unsuitable - too slow & nowhere near nimble enough. -- Bob Scott
From: Nate Bargmann on 14 Mar 2007 06:55
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:01:06 -0400, Mike W. wrote: > Hey Nate... how you been? There are indeed specific rumors about new > Kawasaki forays into cop bikes, but there are also some privateers > attempting to make a service life extension package for the original > KZP's. The *real* reason it was dropped was a lack of ABS and > departmental liability, so if you cured that, you really have a package > the guys on the streets loved. Things have been going well. Other projects keep slipping in and pushing my KL250 restoration project back. I've got another KZ650 SR in the garage with a starting clutch issue (it slips) that I tore into last night for a friend. I heard that another reason Kawasaki got out the P market, was because the factory molds and jigs to build it were worn out. That could have simply been another rumor, but after almost 30 years of production it seems a reasonable assumption. I'm guessing that new EPA and CARB rules on the horizon left no room for an air cooled engine which was probably another factor. Take care, Mike. - Nate >> -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, the pessimist fears this is true." |