Scooter
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posted February 20, 2006 05:18 AM
 Edited By: Scooter on 21 Feb 2006 00:11
Kawabusa
Blatantly pirated frrom the ZRX board. Sure wish I'd made it to the dealer show. I'm sure Fish will be reporting shortly......
Link...http://www.zrxoa.org/forums/showthread.php?threadid=109047
Builder's site http://www.midmomc.com/
   
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wheeliekev
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posted February 20, 2006 05:22 AM
nice bike, well blatantly pinched lol
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DB
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posted February 20, 2006 05:22 AM
Oh yea!!
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posted February 20, 2006 06:50 AM
Nice work ......
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trenace
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posted February 20, 2006 03:02 PM
Edited By: trenace on 20 Feb 2006 15:08
Wow... while on general principles that's definitely something that's "just not right," if painted all-black it would look good, and obviously is a very outstanding power increase that couldn't have been gotten -- not with same overall powerband -- with the ZRX mill.
Interesting that despite the more-downdraft design of the Busa motor, it was still possible to make the carbs not hit the frame, to get everything to line up.
BTW, on the link, it says "Invalid thread specified." I suppose the ZRX mods were up to their usual "move things around, delete things, busy busy busy!" routine.
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zxlnt
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posted February 20, 2006 07:16 PM
I saw that in Indy. Mitch Boehm was talking to the owner. Look for an article sometime in the future in Motorcyclist...
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Scooter
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posted February 21, 2006 12:13 AM
Edited By: Scooter on 21 Feb 2006 00:15
Fixed link. Original got moved to the busa board. I'm liking the paint, gonna black out all the lower trinkets on my 12R.
Hey trenace, how's your project coming? Inquiring minds want to know.
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trenace
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posted February 21, 2006 01:27 AM
Edited By: trenace on 21 Feb 2006 01:36
Ah, I am a sorry specimen.
I am wanting to do it pretty much all at the same time, since there's so much, it seems like it
would be much more total work as well as much more downtime to do it piecemeal, put her back
together, do another piece, put her back together etc.
I do finally have all the chassis parts -- the last to come in being the JMC swingarm which took a
6 month wait. (And other than the lighter rear subframe but that was a last minute recent
decision to order that, and that doesn't need waiting on, can always be added later. Oh, and
other than the ceramic rotors which I despite paying for long ago DEFINITELY still don't have,
ditto.)
The wait on the engine is for the shop that will be doing the heads getting in the valves that they
use, that they ran out of and had to order a new run. The point isn't bigger valves per se, though
they are in fact a trace bigger -- they insist they are better and allow more flow with more
durability.
Actually I need to check with them and see what in the world is going on as it's been a ridiculous
length of time. 
So the only stuff installed presently is pipe (Brock Megaphone), PC, BMC's, the Gilles rear sets,
the GSG frame protectors, the lightweight LiPolymer battery, and minor cosmetic stuff like
undertail and the SP12 CF front fender, mirrors, and hugger.
I would never have believed this was going to be so drawn out.
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trenace
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posted February 21, 2006 01:39 AM
Edited By: trenace on 21 Feb 2006 01:44
Since when does a Busa motor have a 12,250 or 12,300 rpm redline?
In fact even the stock redline can be open to question -- in car racing applications where the Busa
motor is used, builders commonly or maybe generally find the need to downrate the redline to only 10,000.
Which -- having to downrate the redline -- doesn't incidentally appear to be the case with the ZX-12R
motor, perhaps because its piston speed at 11,500 is about the same as the Busa's at 10,000.
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DB
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posted February 21, 2006 08:24 AM
Kawasaki needs to make the ZRX1400
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trenace
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posted March 01, 2006 02:21 PM
Edited By: trenace on 1 Mar 2006 14:21
MCN reports on the bike:
LOOK closely and you'll see that this green monster is a Suzuki Hayabusa-boosted Kawasaki
ZRX. The 183bhp creation is the work of ex-pat Norm Wilding, 54, who's been squeezing big
engines into donor frames since moving to the US 15 years ago.
Wilding has been putting the Hayabusa's inverted forks and monoshock rear end on Kawasaki
ZRXs for the past five years at Mid Missouri Motorcycles and this is his latest, debuted at last
weekend's Indianapolis Motorcycle Show.
Wilding started with a 2001 ZRX1200R and fitted the forks, swingarm, wheels, brakes and
motor, from a 2005 Hayabusa. He said: "It wasn't as easy as it looks. The main mod was
replacing the right side frame tube with 4130 chromoly steel tube; I had to do that for strength
because the original is aluminium. The fuel injection unit ended up pretty close to the underside
of the tank, so I put an airbox in the bottom of the tank. I lost about one gallon of tank capacity, but
the original's still got 4.3 gallons left, so it's no problem."
Wilding says he's now got a bike with a better riding position, gobs of power, six-speed
transmission and the instant throttle response and reliability of fuel injection. He added: "It's
beautiful and the balance is perfect. You give it full power and everything behaves - the front
wheel dances over the road."
The Kawabusa sparked huge interest at the show.Wilding said: "I had planned on putting
together a few more Kawabusas, including a 1661cc bored and stroked version, but after the
response at the show, I will definitely be building a LOT more."
But he's still got to work out what to charge his new-found customers, adding: "I can' t tell you
how much it will cost to reproduce this bike - it's taken lots of time and effort to get it right but I
haven't been keeping track of the money spent on it."
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