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Kawasaki Z 750 discussion forum:boosting with a turbo |
| boosting with a turbo |
| NN said 2001-09-11 10:26 |
| Hi, Starting off my cycling carreer with 2strokes and wrecking everything that´s fast I went out to get me a BMW, after 15 years and 25 bikes reliable, always starting... and boring were things that came to mind when i was looking for one, found myself on a K1, but that was no go (bad knees) and then i discovered a Kawa 750 turbo for sale. It was my little-boys-dream-machine and i must say :) So i bought the bike in my mind even before i rode it (stupid me) and i ended up with no money and a bike with TURBO on the sidepanels..... i didn´t even make it home, as i would discover later because this mechanically too complex bike was having trouble with standing still for a year or so. The old owner refused any resposibility and so i was stuck with the bike. After half a year i had done an engine overhaul (including turbo) was still poor and so was the bike running......it is a very poorly documented bike, no sensible mechanic touches the thing or promises you something. Naturally most of the overhaul was due, but if i had found the faulty air temp sensor earlyer i would have saved me a lot of work. (tested it by hanging an in/out thermometer near the bikes sensor, and measuring the bikes sensor resistance with a multimeter taped to my steer) This however is not the reason you own one Now back to that moment you are standing in front of a red light, somebody pulls up to you with a modern bike (this time a ´00 fireblade), in a matching set of clothing,very flashy, they look at me like i´m not worthy to be called a biker and i ride an old bike, and then the lights turn green, i rev my bike until about 3000 RPM and drop the clutch(much higher than this and i´ll land on my back ;) the first jump up until 30 Km an hour he can still keep up with me, then i hear the sound of the turbo come up and the bike pulls away like the fireblade is standing still :) don´t look at me like that. I meet him again at the next light and he is looking at my bike with some amaizement, unbelief, and the will to buy one too :) So he askes me what i´ve got, and i tell him it´s a 17 year old bike (without mentioning the extra goodies from the last 2 years to leave people like him behind me) Ok because of the geometry i will loose to a good rider on twisty roads, but it´s not all about showing off, it´s also the tremendous acceleration you feel when the turbo kicks in. And if you can handle a ´70 bike this is very nice This technical disaster was disciontinued in 2 years after introduction, because it was easy to tune to approx 140 Hp(and thus very dangerous to their riding audience, who wrecked bikes and themselves) and too expensive (1.5X the price of a GPz1100i in that time) If you want one, they are still available, but the turbo is waisted in 45.000 km (exceptions exsist) and the engine dies after 60.000 Km maintanace has to be done by yourself, because you can´t find a mechanic. And if you run into trouble it´s expensive, hardly unfindable (if it´s about electronics)and stressfull, but when she runs, you will never want to go back to a regular bike.. Maarten and for that matter, i´ll buy everything regarding this bike, just to get me enough parts for the next fourty years ;) because i´m keeping mine |
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