vduk wrote:The bottom one looks like the one from my Z1000A1 and seems to work fine.

Bet your missus will give you hell for putting oily bike bits on the bed spread

I have too agree with you vduk. The bottom one looks like the one on my z1000A1.

Thanks Steve f. Got the mail and will use the measurements i got there.

Ehhr... Nothing to get all worked up about. It was me who offered to make steve f a pair....

Davy Doherty wrote:Too good to be true Fitzer helping a member for nowt!! A word of caution Teddy beware fitzer (stevef) helping you out he always has a hidden agenda

Steve f, you've got pm...

steve f wrote:think all zeds are the same


ps i need 2 also

If you fix me the measurements, i will make you two!

Hey.
Do someone of you have a centre stand bolt they could measure up for me? I forgot to bring along the one i have at home. And i want to make two new ones. It's for a -77 z1000 a1 if there is any difference between models.

Cheers.

Hello Teddy, interesting project :) We can supply all the head gaskets from 1015cc to 1500cc from stock, with 1200cc you have a choice of copper or CFM20 wich is a fibre type compound. The CFM20 has excellent sealing properties but will be limited on how much boost/compression it can handle, the co...

Davy Doherty wrote:What happens on the dark side???

It becomes a tripppple. [/quote]

Wtf....

Ok, it's a cool bike too but.....

comprssion test wont tell u what comp ratio it is , u need to either put no1 piston at tdc ..and carfully fill the cylinder to the spark plug with light oil , this needs to be mesured .to accertain the comp ratio ...or u take the head off , if copper head gasket can be reused , and cc the parts one...

C'mon Teddy.... what's the latest, what ya been doin ? If you've got stock pistons then 8:1 is about the absolute limit, if you're running flat top 'forged' turbo pistons then 9:1 would be more like it. Also, you won't be able to run much boost with std pistons, sure they're strong as hell for nat ...

Thanks Pigford.

Garn 1 wrote:The distance from the wheel centre to the top of the fork tube is approx 770 cm when on centre stand. A standard fork tube length for a Z1/ Z900 when measured dissassembled from fork leg is 615cm.
RegardZ.

Can anybody confirm these measurements? Are they the same for z1000 A1?
Thankz.....

My main target with this bike is to get it up and running. I've started to dismantle parts and sort out whats good and whats bad. I don't need a perfect bike, as this one is a bit to far from origninal... :?? My next step is to check out the engine. I'm gonna test the compression that is set to be 8...

shame its a B flow with ur kit ..F flow is a better upgrade ....u can swap compressor wheels to a f flow and put a . 60 turbine housing on and it will flow the same a ff 40 .....if u need any rajay bits think ive still got a couple of b flows Good to know. According to the previous owner, it was wo...

Starting a new thread, with pictures from a light project i'm starting on. The bike is a -77 z1000 , 1200 ccm with Rayjay turbo. Will post pictures now and then..... The bike. http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd243/z1000turbo/DSC00279.jpg Turbo dismantled http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd243/z...