{"id":13201,"date":"2014-09-06T18:29:45","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T23:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/?p=13201"},"modified":"2016-05-05T15:12:01","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T20:12:01","slug":"1980-kawasaki-kz750","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/2014\/09\/1980-kawasaki-kz750\/","title":{"rendered":"1980 Kawasaki KZ750"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been into the KZ750’s for awhile now (old post sweating KZ’s)<\/a> and I’ve been keeping an eye out for a deal. Well, this week this KZ popped up on craigslist and I went and bought it on Friday after work. The owner had moved to Florida and needed to sell it so was able to get it for $450 without a title. The owner had questionable Maine paperwork from 2010 but I think I’m just going to do the Vermont trick. Either way, the title work shouldn’t be an issue.<\/p>\n

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These KZ motors have some decent power, 74 hp stock.<\/p>\n

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Some of my favorite things about this particular KZ750 model:
\n– Kawasaki mag wheels. Especially the 18″ rear mag
\n– Non cruiser front forks
\n– Dual disk upfront rear disk. Rear disk looks super tough IMO
\n– It’s a complete turd stock so I think it gets overlooked
\n– Parts are pretty cheap and there’s plenty of availability
\n– GPZ engine parts can be nice upgrades to this motor.<\/p>\n

Things I don’t like:
\n– Painted black engine
\n– No kickstarter (however, a KZ650 kick assembly supposedly can be installed)
\n– CV carbs
\n– 2 up sloppy jalopy seat
\n– Blue spray painted tank
\n– 80’s era emissions control crap<\/p>\n

Things I hope to be able to do with it (biggest restriction will be $$$):
\n– Kerker exhaust
\n– Oil cooler
\n– Kickstarter
\n– Keihin CR carbs
\n– Progressive suspension front and back<\/p>\n

I’m putting the bike away till winter to give myself time to get the title sorted and come up with a design for the bike. Either way, I’m excited to own it and make it into something unique this winter. Either way it’s gonna rip once it’s done.<\/p>\n

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I’ve been into the KZ750’s for awhile now (old post sweating KZ’s) and I’ve been keeping an eye out for a deal. Well, this week this KZ popped up on craigslist and I went and bought it on Friday after work. The owner had moved to Florida and needed to sell it so was able […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[223,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13201"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13224,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13201\/revisions\/13224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}