The TURBO KZ is DONE!!!

Well here she is fella's, off the rack finally and ready for the final tune.  Took her for a spin tonight but either the carb is lean or I have a fuel supply issue so I couldn't get her up on boost. Still needs a new paintjob and some minor cosmetic odds and ends but it's DONE! Now I can get going on the loooong bike I've been thinking of for a loooong time. But first a quicky on a Yammy 400 for my Son Ian so he has something to ride when I come see him in Fresno.

More turbo install stuff !!!!

 Well my camera took a shit so I haven't been keeping up with my antics of late. I have been busy though. Turns out the Turbo kit I had didn't actually fit my KZ, I suspect it was made for a Suzuki, so I had to make a few adjustments and make a few pieces.  I also was missing an intake manifold and all the gasketing along with all the oil and drainage lines for the turbo itself. I had to drill and tap the oil galley next to the oil pressure sensor and modify the hole size to force more oil to the turbo and a little less to the top end, like plugging the main in smallblock chevy to send more to the crank and less to the rockers.

I had to make this new crosspipe from the header to the exhaust side of the turbo housing, also this short little 3" exhaust, should be able to hear that hairdrier spin up real swell!

Also made up this inlet manifold for the HSR Mikuni I'm using. There wasn't near as much room in there as I thought so I had to bring it out past the drain fitting.  I'm also going to have to make a bracket to hold the carb out there in this precarious position. Along with an electric fuel pump mount and throttle cable situation, shouldn't be long now!!!

Sorry about the cell phone pics but there just going to have to do for the time being cuz I'm saving up for SEMA! Maybe I'll get a new one there.

It's finally time to add BOOST!!! and a tank for sale

I've had this turbo kit waiting in the wings for a couple of years.  Just biding it's time in the back of my mind until I decided to push it into service.  I had several turbo kaws in the 80's when we used to street race these things.  This one will not be that radical, the motor is completely unmodified with cast pistons and 9:1 compression.  On pump gas I won't be able to run much more then 7 pounds, on good fuel maybe 10 without melting it down.  I figure I'm looking at about 150-170 HP.  Still not a Busa beater but plenty fun. You'll notice in the pic that the pipe don't line up at all with this set up, I think this must have been a Suzuki kit.  Modifications were in order so I got out the grinder and the welder and the grinder and the cutter etc etc, a little high heat  black and voila'!

Here is an early Sportster "turtle" Tanks I'm putting on the block.  I've had this sitting around quite a while and I always wanted to build a Sporty with this tank but times is tough so somethings gotta go. I'm offering it here first at a discount till Monday then it will go on Ebay.

your special price is $250 plus shipping. If you have any questions email at kevinhog@aol.com.

It's in great shape and these are BIG pics so you can blow them up for a thorough inspection.