Kawasaki KZ650 cafe-racer. Carburetors. Part 1.
This post, be it put in one part, would contain about forty photos. So I am to cut it in two. The question of KZ650 carburetors is quite extensive. One may catch a serious case…
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This post, be it put in one part, would contain about forty photos. So I am to cut it in two. The question of KZ650 carburetors is quite extensive. One may catch a serious case…
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It’s well known, that clutch baskets of Kawasaki KZ650/KZ750, as well as that of Zephyr 750 are equipped with rubber dampers. These rubbers shrink and even crumble after a long time of exploitation, therefore cease…
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18″ high shouldered (H-type, H-shape, flanged or valanced) rims are essential point of both, CBX550 spoked wheels project and whole KZ650 project. I bought first pair of such rims on Italian ebay. They were descendants…
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I’ve made some improvised plugs and cut out a set of covers from transparent plastic to protect all essential surfaces of crankcase from glass blasting and to minimize penetration of glass beads into crankcase. Then…
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After I found out that high shouldered wheel’ rims that I ordered from Italy are not good enough for my project and was waiting for arrival of ordered substitute (this is another story), I concentrated…
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Just another shopping post, so to say another couple of hundred bucks spent on KZ650 project. What I like in OEM parts is a fact that they always work as they were intended to work….
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Photo shooting of large-scaled exploded view like this is unique chance and it is always a fun. It is also preassembling summary of whole project or significant part of it and opportunity to check if…
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The distinctive feature of every Gazzz Garage project is preassembling photo that shows all parts, units and components of project placed on some background. We started this tradition of ours in 2014 when such “Exploded…
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Initially I thought to use original KZ650 cylinder head as it was in very nice condition: no broken cooling fins, clean intake channels and so on and so forth. The only thing I had to…
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