eng nos dodgy or not

baz · #1 PostAuthor: **baz** » Mon May 05, 2014 1:36 pm

just noticed this morn that the z1b eng that i was shifting about in the garage (again) has no raised lip were the numbers are stamped, the stamping looks right enough though :??

any body seen this before :?:

zed1015 · #2 PostAuthor: **zed1015** » Mon May 05, 2014 1:50 pm

Early engines have no lip.

mick znone · #3 PostAuthor: **mick znone** » Mon May 05, 2014 1:51 pm

didnt the lip appear somewhere early in the z1a range?

baz · #4 PostAuthor: **baz** » Mon May 05, 2014 2:04 pm

mick z1a wrote:didnt the lip appear somewhere early in the z1a range?

hi mick, i thought that, zed 1015 is right it was the early engs, just thought ide ask the question

zed1015 · #5 PostAuthor: **zed1015** » Mon May 05, 2014 2:13 pm

A pic would help.
The early number pads with no lip were shorter in length than the later ones.

baz · #6 PostAuthor: **baz** » Mon May 05, 2014 4:30 pm

zed1015 wrote:A pic would help.
The early number pads with no lip were shorter in length than the later ones.

cheers zed 1015 but i must have had to much juice this weekend, it is a z1a eng, the z1b eng is still in bits in a box :oops:

malmojoe · #7 PostAuthor: **malmojoe** » Mon May 05, 2014 6:29 pm

I think as Mick says, early Z1A engines were also without the lip, I think Garn did a bit of research into it so he could tell you more, but I have one around 27000 with no lip.

jimmock · #8 PostAuthor: **jimmock** » Tue May 06, 2014 3:38 pm

Z1 motors had a shorter "pad" for the stamping.

Garn 1 · #9 PostAuthor: **Garn 1** » Thu May 08, 2014 3:59 pm

Bas, as Malmojoe & Jimmock have mentioned the Z1's & early Z1A's were without lip and only had a shorter pad [65mm long].
I think, to prevent theft, and over-stamping about #27700 Kawasaki tried this...
extending the pad to 80mm snd giving the overall surface of the pad a lip.

Also, for a short period a checkered surface. The checkered surface must not have been successful as, I think, certain number stampings interfered with the surface and caused pieced of alloy to fall out!

I have found this only went for a few units [approx 400 to 1000 units], after which it changed to the original large font then to the last font which is smaller and slightly italic. It also gained an extra digit along the way. I have seen anomalies around this # 27700 sequence, however, as they were so good, I had to accept them or embarrass the owner.

To my knowledge, the Z1B had the 80mm pad with lip and had the six digit small slightly italic font

RegardZ.

baz · #10 PostAuthor: **baz** » Thu May 08, 2014 5:44 pm

cheers garn1

your spot on there pal

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