Topic: 1974 Kawasaki H1 500 Triple Project

[mrbreeze]

I never owned one but knew a guy in the early 80's that had one and let me ride it coupla times. His wife worked at Denco so needless to say.....he had a butt load of trick parts on it. It was a 750 in a 500 frame....totally stripped(very light bike). The motor was so rad that it could hardly idle but once you got it rolling and got used to the throttle......damn thing would about pull away from under you. Talk about a wheelie machine.......you could pull it up with ease in any gear.
Anyhow.....I've always dug the smokers. Yours is a good looking specimien. Have fun with it.

[tango911]

Can't wait to see it smoke!   You move yet?

house will be done in early March.

Tango,
    That motor looks clean enough to eat off of,it'd be a shame to take her out on the Winter roads to break it in...

dont worry,  no salty roads for this beast, ill get it all together and running, then tune in the spring.

short update,  engine is in.  now for the small stuff.

[grcamna2]

Nice Tango  How's your Winter time work load in the Cycle Repair business ? Steady work so far ??
I hope you have a Great 2014 Spring season ! 

[tango911]

Nice Tango  How's your Winter time work load in the Cycle Repair business ? Steady work so far ??
I hope you have a Great 2014 Spring season ! 

its been pretty busy, just flipped Two bikes for 2100 profit.  building a house and a new Moto Garage so the H1 has taken a back seat but im slowly working on it.

thanks!!

[Stev-o]

Hey Tango, nice profit. 


Just finished my Kaw......





Looking for an H1 now...

[tango911]

nice 900!!  is that a z1 or??

[Stev-o]

nice 900!!  is that a z1 or??

Oh yeah.  '75 Z1B (last year of the Z1).   Found it in SC when looking for an H1.  Runs fantastic.

[tango911]

about to get back to work on this :/    2014 was a rough year, dealing with my mothers health, building a new house and shop etc............

[Stev-o]

Looks good!   Hows it run?

I found a '74, it was in MI, bought it as a non-running project bike. Got it runnin, poorly at best though.  Getting ready to rebuild the motor...

[tango911]

hasnt run yet but its a fresh engine build.   will be amazing,  with higgspeed chambers.

[scottly]

Mmmm... chambers....

[grcamna2]

Hey Tango and Stev-o,
is there any benefit to changing the porting in the 74' model H1 to match the earlier(late 60's-71')models 'peakier',screamin' powerband ? Those early ones had Very intense accel. 

[Stev-o]

hasnt run yet but its a fresh engine build. 

Did you check/replace the crank seals?

[tango911]

hasnt run yet but its a fresh engine build. 

Did you check/replace the crank seals?

yes, total engine rebuild.  its perrrrrrrrrrrrrrrfect.

[Rocky2010]

Great looking engine those Kawa Triple 2 stroke