gazzz
November 12, 2019
cafe racer, Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer, KZ650: intake
Carburetors assembling. Part 1. >> With gaskets issue being solved, installation of float bowls was only a matter of five minutes. For float bowls I chose stainless steel Allen bolts with cylindrical heads. New fuel…
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gazzz
November 10, 2019
cafe racer, Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer, KZ650: intake
Carburetors were ready for assembling, however I have a couple of other works to attend to, thus I placed parts of my Mikuni VM24 carburetors onto the shelves and smaller of them I put in…
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gazzz
October 31, 2019
Garage, Gazzz Garage, Halloween, memories
Dunno who was this funny fellow and what he was doing in my garage, but it was nice to have him for a company this evening, even if he occupied Kawasaki KZ650 clutch cover I…
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gazzz
October 28, 2019
cafe racer, Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer, KZ650: intake
Creating exploded views like this one with Kawasaki KZ650 carburetors is quite complicated task. One have to think out parts positioning, do not forget any part or piece of hardware and then lay all parts…
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gazzz
October 26, 2019
cafe racer, Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer, KZ650: intake
Carburetors have come a long way of “evolution” since they were invented and in time they became quite complicated. It’s quite a lot of work to adjust carburetor to work perfectly in all range of…
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October 22, 2019
Europe travel 2015, memories
One may wonder why so far there was only one October post. For one thing for about two weeks I didn’t work on KZ650 project, but was preparing my garage to upcoming winter. I made…
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October 9, 2019
cafe racer, Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer, KZ650: engine, KZ750 cylinder head
Remember this nice KZ750 cylinder head that made long way to me from USA through Germany? I cleaned it, I checked all I could, I found out that two from four exhaust valves were slightly…
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September 26, 2019
cafe racer, Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer, KZ650: shopping post
Kawasaki KZ650 as well as KZ750 has 12 cylinder studs with M10 thread of following lengths: 4 studs x 153mm (part number 92004-062), 4 studs x 133mm (92004-1004) and 4 studs x 116mm (92004-1007). The …
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September 21, 2019
cafe racer, Comstar spoked wheels, Honda CBX550 spoked wheels, Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer
So, what should have happened in June happened only in September. Yesterday I finally finished rear wheel. I placed second order for Excel 18″ 2.5″ high shouldered rim as soon as I became sure that …
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