{"id":17352,"date":"2016-11-11T06:48:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T11:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/?p=17352"},"modified":"2016-11-11T08:44:20","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T13:44:20","slug":"kz750-530-chain-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/2016\/11\/kz750-530-chain-conversion\/","title":{"rendered":"KZ750 530 Chain Conversion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Late model KZ650’s and all KZ750’s came stock with 630 chains. Converting to a 530 chain has a few benefits like being more readily available, cheaper, and lighter than 630 chains. Even modern Kawasaki’s like the ZX10R which is 1000cc, 190+ hp, and 80+ ft lbs of torque use 530 chains.<\/p>\n

1980 KZ750 Stock:<\/strong>
\nFront\/Rear: 13\/33
\nRatio: 2.55
\nChain: 630 x 84 links<\/p>\n

Conversion:<\/strong>
\nFront\/Rear: 16\/40
\nRatio: 2.50
\nChain: 530 x 102 links<\/p>\n

JT Sprocket Part Numbers:<\/strong>
\nFront: JTF513 (16T)
\nRear: JTR488 (40T)<\/p>\n

Stock 13T sprocket (top) \/ 530 sprocket (bottom)
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You can see the difference in chain pitch but overall diameter of the sprockets is very close.
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530 chain (left) \/ 630 chain (right)
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Late model KZ650’s and all KZ750’s came stock with 630 chains. Converting to a 530 chain has a few benefits like being more readily available, cheaper, and lighter than 630 chains. Even modern Kawasaki’s like the ZX10R which is 1000cc, 190+ hp, and 80+ ft lbs of torque use 530 chains. 1980 KZ750 Stock: Front\/Rear: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17352"}],"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=17352"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17546,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17352\/revisions\/17546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinonthetank.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}