KZR's Bikes of the Month for 2024

1978 Edition Clymer: Chapter on Z1 Performance Improvments

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25 Jul 2024 13:14 - 25 Jul 2024 13:34 #902546 by Move0ver
When I bought my Z1 from the original owner, he handed over a trove of old magazines, documents, and this clymer manual.  It is full of random notecards with part numbers, receipts, and notes scrawled on pages throughout.
What is interesting about this clymer, versus ones for other bikes I've owned is the performance improvement chapter.  It's a fascinating look into performance modifications of the era and has more or less been the process I have followed with improving the bike from where the previous owner left off (such as shots, springs, ignition, etc).

here's a link to the uploaded pages:
imgur.com/gallery/kawsaki-z1-performance...lymer-manual-pmaaXc8

And here are the images resized for this forum (I don't know if it's just me, but this forum doesn't seem to auto resize linked images based on the viewers resolution).








 
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25 Jul 2024 13:18 #902547 by Move0ver

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25 Jul 2024 13:20 #902548 by Move0ver

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25 Jul 2024 13:21 #902549 by Move0ver

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25 Jul 2024 13:23 #902550 by Move0ver

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25 Jul 2024 13:23 #902551 by Move0ver
The following user(s) said Thank You: Street Fighter LTD, sf4t7, SWest, Scirocco, Dragbike_Mike, Wookie58

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25 Jul 2024 17:51 #902558 by sf4t7
My go - to is almost always the FSM, but I also have had an old Chilton's from years ago. It has a similar performance chapter at the end, but not as comprehensive or in depth as the Clymer you included above.  Thanks, makes for interesting reading.


Scotty

1974 Z1A
1015
welded Z1 crank
Andrews 1X Cams
Delkevic 4 into 1
Superbike bars
530 conversion

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25 Jul 2024 19:30 #902561 by TexasKZ
Very cool.

1982 KZ1000 LTD parts donor
1981 KZ1000 LTD awaiting resurrection
2000 ZRX1100 not ridden enough

www.kzrider.com/11-projects/620336-anoth...uild-thread?start=24

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