Topic: Terry's NEW big Kawasaki build, the "Lockdown 1428" special.

[Terry in Australia]

But I digress. With 4(?) projects currently on the go I'm jumping between them, when one hits a wall for some reason I just move to another one. Yesterday my clutch cover gasket hadn't arrived, so I bought a sheet of gasket paper (because I couldn't find a cereal box) and first traced the outside of the clutch cover, then the inside of the KZ1000 clutch cover, canted to suit the inside of the GPZ1100 clutch cover, and oil level sight glass hole.

GPZ1100 Clutch cover gasket 21 Oct 2020 2 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

I was more than happy with the gasket I made, and couldn't help giggling like a little girl when I noticed that the gasket paper is made in England, the world's capital of oil leaking motorcycles. Oh well, I was happy that it's 1mm thick paper, so no gasket goop required.

GPZ1100 Clutch cover gasket 21 Oct 2020 5 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

I used my leather belt punch to start the holes, then used a gasket punch to take the holes out to 6mm.

GPZ1100 Clutch cover gasket 21 Oct 2020 3 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

And I surprised myself, as I get older I really do "measure twice and cut once", because every one of the mounting holes was actually where it needs to be. Bolted the clutch cover on, and all was good.

GPZ1100 Clutch cover gasket 21 Oct 2020 6 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

OK, so what's new? Well as you'll remember, the alternator cover is knackered.

GPZ1100 Clutch cover gasket 21 Oct 2020 7 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

Well as you all know, I suffer from OCD quite badly, so while that alternator cover on an engine that I don't even know will go isn't that important, to me it just wouldn't do, so I swapped the stator into the "wrinkle finish" alternator cover and happily, the spare Z1/KZ1000 alternator cover gasket fit just fine after I enlarged the hole for a knock pin in the GPZ1100 engine that isn't present in a Z1/KZ1000. While a bit wrinkly, it looks like it'll take a beating.

GPZ1100 Clutch cover gasket 21 Oct 2020 9d by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

I pulled out the clutch pushrod. While it looked nice and clean for the most part, it looked like it had around 40 years of chain lube on the last couple of inches.

GPZ1100 Clutch cover gasket 21 Oct 2020 9b by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

So I hit it up with the wire wheel, gave it a bit of lube, and reinserted it. I'm doing all these things so I don't have to, once I have the engine back in the frame. Next good thing I found out, was that the Z1/KZ1000 sprocket cover still bolts straight onto the GPZ engine, so I can have the shift lever in the same spot. Cool.

GPZ1100 Clutch cover gasket 21 Oct 2020 9e by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

Bill asked about the engine mounts, and i said I'd take a couple of pics, here the front mount, minus the rubber damper.

GPZ1100 Clutch cover gasket 21 Oct 2020 8 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

Here's the damper assembly. Maybe I can sell it to a GPZ guy? I can turn up some alloy bar to fill the hole, and bore it for the front mounting bolt.

GPZ1100 Clutch cover gasket 21 Oct 2020 9 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

Anyhoo, no deliveries at all today, and tomorrow is a public holiday so that we can all go and wave at the two opposing footballs teams in a street parade that's not happening this year due to Covid-19? So I'll have to pop the cam cover off the 1428cc engine, and install the gasket on the GPZ1100 head, so I can shove the engine back into the frame, so I've got room to build my CB750 K0 engine.

Anyway, the AFL Grand Final (don't worry about "Rugby League", it's a foolish game) is being held in Brisbane for the first time in 100 years, but we still get a day off in Melbourne? Weird. Oh well, I've got heaps more pics of the K0 frame, and I need to put the sealed/repainted tank on the F2 and go for a blat, but there's only 24 hours (or so I'm told) in a day, so more tomorrow. Same Bat time, same Bat channel.............
 


       

[grcamna2]

Terry,The bike that this engine is going into,is that the one that has the six-pot calipers(where did you get those from?)and cast iron discs custom set-up ?

[Terry in Australia]

G'Day Bill, no those 6 pot brakes etc are going on my 1975 Z1-B. This engine is going into the black KZ1000, which I've adapted 4 pot Brembo calipers to the OEM Kawasaki discs. When I bought that Yamaha XS650 last year, in amongst the parts were a pair of really nice Brembo calipers, so I decided that the Kawasaki needed good brakes much more than the Yamaha did. I've used a Yamaha FJR1300 MC and braided lines with each, and these brakes really haul the bike down from speed.

Sunday Zed Too Far Away 1 Mar 2020 2 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

Saturday Zed fabbing 18 Jan 2020 2 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

[grcamna2]

Looks like Good Strong calipers 

[Terry in Australia]

Yeah, I only rode it maybe 10 miles before my dodgy wiring let me down, and I had to rewire the ignition on the side of the road to ride home again, but the brakes were spectacular. I'm looking forward to shoving the GPZ1100 engine back into it, fixing the wiring so I can use the electric start and alternator that it didn't have in it's previous guise, replace the switch block that the wiring melted on, and actually putting up some miles on it.

[grcamna2]

Yeah, I only rode it maybe 10 miles before my dodgy wiring let me down, and I had to rewire the ignition on the side of the road to ride home again, but the brakes were spectacular. I'm looking forward to shoving the GPZ1100 engine back into it, fixing the wiring so I can use the electric start and alternator that it didn't have in it's previous guise, replace the switch block that the wiring melted on, and actually putting up some miles on it.

Good brakes on it.The 1428 "Lock-down Special" with those 6-pot dual calipers might give new meaning to the term 'Lock Down' and put you right over the bars !
Did you at least take one of your bikes out on the road ?

[Terry in Australia]

You know I've been thinking about that Bill, the liner  should be nice and dry in the blue F2 tank now, so tomorrow, I might re-install it and fill it with the gas that was leaking out of the rust holes a few weeks ago, and if it stays nice and dry, I'll go clock up some miles. The AFL (Australian Football League) Grand Final is on tomorrow, so all the cops will be in their stations watching the game, with luck.........

[Terry in Australia]

Well I'm sitting here looking forwards to bedtime so I can drop a Tramadol or three as my back is letting me know that I've fcuked up big time by lifting that 200(+) pound lump of a GPZ1100 engine into my KZ1000 frame last night.

Now there was a time when I was so fit (and quite fat) that I could pick up a CB750 engine and shove it into the frame on my own, but those days have gone, as a 60 year old weakling I needed to enlist my much younger, fitter son (the boxer) to give me a hand to pick that heavy fcuker up and wiggle it into position. It was an absolute pain in the derriere, and included pulling it back out again to remove the cam cover, discovering that the lower rear engine mounts on the frame don't actually line up with anything on the GPZ engine, and realising that there are only really two mounting points that will (I think) line up with a GPZ1100 engine into a Z (or KZ in the US) 1000 frame. Poop.   

1428 GPZ 27 Oct 2020 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

1428 GPZ 27 Oct 2020 1 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

As you can see, the mounting point at the front of the engine for a GPZ1100 engine is rubber mounted, and when (as recommended by the Kawasaki guru's) you do the install, you need to make alloy adapters to remove the rubber mounts, which are apparently, not a good thing.

1428 GPZ KZ1000 install 1 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

Drunk again, I made up some adapters.

1428 GPZ KZ1000 install 3 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

They looked pretty good.

1428 GPZ KZ1000 install 4 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

1428 GPZ KZ1000 install 2 by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

And they fit well too.

1428 GPZ KZ1000 install by Terry Prendergast, on Flickr

I'll bolt the front mounts up tomorrow, and see what spacers need to be fabricated for the rear mount. Still not keen to only have two mounting points, but don't want to chop anything off the frame, as the next engine (the 1428) is set up to go straight in. More tomorrow.  



 

[RAFster122s]

Wow, 3 Tramadol is a lot of that ass kicker to take. I think I would be popping some muscle relaxers if I had them. I took Tramadol for a long time but now with opioid restrictions hardly no onw will prescribe it in the US. It helped me a lot and I don't have any addiction or addictive issues and never have. Doctor was amazed I functioned at a high level on Tramadol and Skelakin and some other meds. Meds designed to numb you for surgery always have far less affect on me than the doctors expect and they had to always dose me pretty high before I couldn't feel it.

[Terry in Australia]

Thanks David, with 4 major surgeries and 8 minors over the last 2 years (or on average once every 2 months) I reckon I got hooked on general anaesthetics, I quite looked forward to them, and the oxycodone I was prescribed afterwards. Nowadays it's Tramadol, Diazepam, Panadol Osteo and Phenergen 25's on a nightly basis. I'm here for a good time, not a long time.......

[grcamna2]

With just the 2 mounting points(4 if you count both sides together  )that KZ1000 frame will make a good 'test bed' to check-out how your GPz1100 engine is doing Terry.I suppose you can find a roller for a permanent install at a later time.

[PeWe]

Terry, you have a project and rebuild on yourself too!!

Like an old rusty CB750 or Kawasaki with flat tires and various leakages, soon as in the old days or even better with bigger bores!!

[grcamna2]

Terry, you have a project and rebuild on yourself too!!

Like an old rusty CB750 or Kawasaki with flat tires and various leakages, soon as in the old days or even better with bigger bores!!

I wonder if Terry is becoming the Six Million Dollar Man,where they rebuilt him with new parts.

[PeWe]

RoboTerry

[grcamna2]

RoboTerry

The universal soldier

[Terry in Australia]

Ha ha, the Universal Soldier on the Universal Japanese Motorcycle! I’ll see how I can mount this engine using as many of the original mounting points as possible, if I need to do some welding I have the frame that I bought from Oink, which I’ll have no issues with modifying to make the GPZ engine fit once I know that the engine is good, and I’ll shove the 1428 engine into the black bike, which was the original plan before I got sidetracked (as I often am) with the GPZ engine. More soon.

[grcamna2]

Ha ha, the Universal Soldier on the Universal Japanese Motorcycle! I’ll see how I can mount this engine using as many of the original mounting points as possible, if I need to do some welding I have the frame that I bought from Oink, which I’ll have no issues with modifying to make the GPZ engine fit once I know that the engine is good, and I’ll shove the 1428 engine into the black bike, which was the original plan before I got sidetracked (as I often am) with the GPZ engine. More soon.

A very special UJM with enough power to satisfy you,hopefully 
You'll need it to chase-down Dolph Lundgren..

[PeWe]

Dolph is a big Swedish guy!

[Terry in Australia]

Well I should be able to catch him on the Kawasaki Per, but only to ask him for his autograph..........

[grcamna2]

Well I should be able to catch him on the Kawasaki Per, but only to ask him for his autograph..........

I hope he isn't collecting ears..

[PeWe]

Maybe he will ask Terry for an autograph?

[Terry in Australia]

Ha ha, I doubt it mate. My 92 year old mum is a bit of a celebrity at the moment, she was nominated as “Australian Senior of the year” for her work with dementia patients, and made it to the Victorian finals, but they gave it to a Vietnamese woman who started a Vietnamese/Australian social club instead.

Ma isn’t too upset, she’s not a glory seeker, but she’s being interviewed by the BBC for a piece they’re doing on “The world’s 100 most influential women”, which I thought was a huge honour. I might have to ask her for her autograph!

There’s going to be a state reception for the SAoTY in January and the family has been invited to attend, so it might be a good opportunity for me to tell Dan Andrews, our incompetent state Premier what I think about him and his government who have directly caused the second wave of Covid-19, killing 800 people, and bankrupting the state. Next time you see me, I might be in jail.......

[grcamna2]

Ha ha, I doubt it mate. My 92 year old mum is a bit of a celebrity at the moment, she was nominated as “Australian Senior of the year” for her work with dementia patients, and made it to the Victorian finals, but they gave it to a Vietnamese woman who started a Vietnamese/Australian social club instead.

Ma isn’t too upset, she’s not a glory seeker, but she’s being interviewed by the BBC for a piece they’re doing on “The world’s 100 most influential women”, which I thought was a huge honour. I might have to ask her for her autograph!

There’s going to be a state reception for the SAoTY in January and the family has been invited to attend, so it might be a good opportunity for me to tell Dan Andrews, our incompetent state Premier what I think about him and his government who have directly caused the second wave of Covid-19, killing 800 people, and bankrupting the state. Next time you see me, I might be in jail.......

I appreciate you mentioning your Mum and what she does Terry,plus I know you would like to say something candid to that Premier.I hope you can do it ! And stay out of jail

[Alan F.]

Just spotted this https://akroncanton.craigslist.org/mpo/d/canton-shipping-kawasaki-kz1000-z1-mtc/7675240600.html and thought I'd post it here.

[Terry in Australia]

Just spotted this https://akroncanton.craigslist.org/mpo/d/canton-shipping-kawasaki-kz1000-z1-mtc/7675240600.html and thought I'd post it here.

Wow, that’s a bargain, even with only 2 pistons! I think mines an Arias kit from memory, I really must do the cam timing and put it together. The rest of the bike needs stripping, as I bought a frame bracing kit for it and never got around to installing it but now I’ve got a decent TIG welder I should get it done. Too many bikes, too little time…..