Project KZ1300

[RadioHowie]

Thanks to both of you!!!

Ray's computer:

Ray's CNC machine:

 

[wfooshee]

Oh, man, the disappointment! Saw the thread come up to the top and jumped in to see the latest.

All I got was a bump and some juvenile squabbling.

Which was funny, but not a shiny working KZ1300.....

RH is one to talk about computers, though......

 

[mcatrophy]

Real computer:

(Click on image for larger view)



(My Friday offering, pictures taken at Bletchley Park, Code Breakers Extraordinaire.)

 

[dcarver]

2013-12-17 Lower End Together and Frame Stripped

Permalink Submitted by dcarver on Tue, 12/17/2013 - 19:30.

Ray, Sir Ray, sent some pix of the Kz1300 Resto Project

As I've been working really hard and long hours, this was much needed pick me up.

Self-explanatory.

Love the cross-hatch on the cylinders. Maybe this time, no oil consumption or fouled plugs?



I've been working at the nuke for too long. Those studs look like control rods..



Now this is truly ART.

Art that came move your butt down the road!



Sure am glad Ray knows what he's doing..



....and on to the ugliness of the chassis.

Pre-teardown pix to aid reassembly.

Ray, that's a custom made battery box, circa 1982, by me. Sorry bud.



It's blurry, but it looks like the headlight relay I installed. Was it under the rear cowling?



Part of the dual alternator/regulator set up.

Feel free to clean up as needed..

..And the stator wires need be soldered, not crimped to last.





These connectors were broken apart so I could start the bike after my bud left the key in 2 pieces in the ignition switch..





Looking pretty naked!





Wow. Memories.



Ray, I need to think about the bag situation. Krauser 'Stars' simply are not available anymore.



A good sandblast and powder coat and the 13teen will be beooutiful again!

(Nice to see grease in the steering head bearings. I remember putting it in there about 2 lives ago....)

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[FJRay]

If you look at the picture of the fairing on the floor you will see the socks you left here during the Reuben Run. I'll make sure you get them back with the bike.

 

[escapefjrtist]

Love the shots of the engine. Keep the updates coming!

--G

 

[Niehart]

Where the hell did you find someone to bore that huge block?

Oh and as my friend Carvers says 'Coolieo."

 

[FJRay]

Where the hell did you find someone to bore that huge block?
Oh and as my friend Carvers says 'Coolieo."

BBRP= Brian Billings Racing Products. Bellingham WA. I've dealing with Brian for about 35 years.

 

[Niehart]

Brian must have a older boring setup?

 

[Panman]

Don't have to have a MC boring head, just a good machinist with a good imagination! Besides somewhere back there Ray said CNC.

 

[FJRay]

Don't have to have a MC boring head, just a good machinist with a good imagination! Besides somewhere back there Ray said CNC.

And we have a winner. The boring was done on a CNC mill to insure accurate bore spacing and then finished honed to obtain. 002" piston clearance. Each piston is matched to it's cylinder.

I thought about doing it on my mill for about 2 seconds before I had a reality check.

 

[Tanker]

Good God, I love this thread....

Keep it coming Gentlemen.

 

[wheatonFJR]

wow.

 

[Justin]

Well, I'm glad someone bumped this to the top. I just wasted 30 minutes

Funny, me and my riding buddy were talking about KZ1300's at the bar last night.

 

[Dutch]

Back in the 80's a pal took me for a walk through the GM tech center in Detroit and there was the engine from a Kow 1300 laying on the floor in a corner.

I asked about it and it was explained to me it was things like this that get dyno'd and then pulled apart and studied.

A few months later he asked me if I wanted it - wish I would have said yes . . .

 

[Bustanut joker]

If you look at the picture of the fairing on the floor you will see the socks you left here during the Reuben Run. I'll make sure you get them back with the bike.

Are those me undershorts hanging off the frame? I lost a pair when I was out that way!

 

[beemerdons]

If you look at the picture of the fairing on the floor you will see the socks you left here during the Reuben Run. I'll make sure you get them back with the bike.

Are those me undershorts hanging off the frame? I lost a pair when I was out that way!

No you Dumbass, HotRodZilla and Papa Chuy Viejo redressed you after we took advantage of your skinny ass! Really great thread and photographs, I love seeing this project coming together for mis Hermano Donaldo Carver ese! jes' sayin' and nuff said!

 

[garyahouse]

Are you doing this project in a basement? I saw the stairs in the background of the final picture you posted above.

Gary

 

[FJRay]

The stairs go to the loft in my shop. That's where the rest of Carver's crap is waiting for it's turn on the table.

 

[wheatonFJR]

The stairs go to the loft in my shop. That's where the rest of Carver's crap is waiting for it's turn on the table.

How much are you charging carvernuts for storage?