Kawasaki Sportsbike Riders Club - Australia - Online Forum

Specwarop wrote:Any news on the ZXR750 manual. I cant find the section with it in.

Neither can I, but I'll patiently wait...

elrond wrote:could this sort of mod be done to ZX7R?

I would say Yes - on my '94 ZX7 I used a throttle barrel from a Yamaha R1 (p/n YA4YR-26240-02-00) which offers about 5/8 turn max. I also got rid of the push cable. No place for it on the barrel and there is a return spring on the carbs anyway.

jpbikeboy wrote:NGK CR9EK. There are the split fire plugs. They do give an increase in power on the 7's. Someone dyno'd the difference and it was a couple of horsies i think.

Yep - running the same on my 7.

I have the flush mount LED style on my '04 ZX-7 and I like them. They are plenty bright - even in daylight. They are more yellow in color than orange. I think my only concern would be at night, since they are mounted so close together, whether it would be difficult to tell which way I am wanting to ...

How does the bike start when hot - do you have to crack the throttle some in order to get it to fire?

I had a similiar experience with my '94 - only my idle didn't go quite as high, and I found that my problem was the idle jets were too rich. I set them (remember the idle mixture is fuel rich since ...