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Don't know if these are allowed on here Moderators feel free to remove
Heres my latest little project wrong Manufacturer for most i know but thought you might have a slight
interest , as usual looked brill on ebay pictures but in the cold light of day reality was different, but
thats how i like to buy them

Very good be interested in seeing the progress

Non Kawasaki Zeds in the Bottom Shed Bill you can have whatever you like in here.

Interested to see how this goes...

Closest motor to a Z1 you are ever going to get and copied almost directly from the Z engine design.
Even the cylinder stud spacings are the same and the GS head will drop straight on the Z motor.
A mod that was popular in drag racing to take advantage of the GS's bigger valves until the 'J' motors came out.

Please keep this coming!
I have a really nice GS1000G which is also one of my favourites and it will be interesting to follow your progress on this rebuild!

Bill,
Always interested to follow your rebuilds, you are a glutton for punishment

Bill P wrote:Don't know if these are allowed on here Moderators feel free to remove
Heres my latest little project wrong Manufacturer for most i know but thought you might have a slight
interest , as usual looked brill on ebay pictures but in the cold light of day reality was different, but
thats how i like to buy them

Problem is if you went to see it you would probably walk away , so now you have a project and you would have stripped it anyway no doubt !

Cheers Zapo i certainly am ,i've a z650 on the go as well
Your right Ray i love to get them in bits ,it is only really frame thats rough and paintwork
on tank isn't quite correct so Shaun the painter will sort it after ive removed the breather
somebody added to front

Is Shaun the painter in Ilkeston?

Yep he's the man

He’s always done great work for me, top lad! He’s painted three or four complete bikes and I’ve been pleased every time!
He painted my A1 as well!

Ive never had a problem apart from sometimes he don't achieve his deadline
he's done me a lot of stuff including modern like a ZXR750 couple Triumphs
thats how diverse he is ex Dream Machine i believe

All the black stuff dropped of at the powder coaters today , a hell of a lot of little bits
compared to Zs so he was thrilled , wheels stripped and ready for polish and paint

zed1015 wrote:Closest motor to a Z1 you are ever going to get and copied almost directly from the Z engine design.
Even the cylinder stud spacings are the same and the GS head will drop straight on the Z motor.
A mod that was popular in drag racing to take advantage of the GS's bigger valves until the 'J' motors came out.

GS750 engine was designed by the same person designed the Z1 engine (he left Kawasaki and went to work for Suzuki) hence why the engines are so similar, GS1000 is a stretched GS750.

Julian_Boolean wrote:

zed1015 wrote:Closest motor to a Z1 you are ever going to get and copied almost directly from the Z engine design.
Even the cylinder stud spacings are the same and the GS head will drop straight on the Z motor.
A mod that was popular in drag racing to take advantage of the GS's bigger valves until the 'J' motors came out.

GS750 engine was designed by the same person designed the Z1 engine (he left Kawasaki and went to work for Suzuki) hence why the engines are so similar, GS1000 is a stretched GS750.

Yes! I was going to mention that in the same post but was fending off the 2 year old grandson trying to press all the keys on the lap top so gave up intending to add that info later when he was asleep but forgot