from K2S
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2017 10:53 am
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Re: from ktog
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2017 4:05 pm
Wow, Great Pictures!
Re: from ktog
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2017 7:50 pm
where did that come from!!!
Re: from ktog
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2017 7:59 pm
Design was pretty good for it's time
Re: from ktog
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2017 8:44 pm
Just a mock up. Don't think it ran!
Re: from ktog
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2017 4:58 am
certainly VERY interesting!
Re: from K2S
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2017 8:52 am
Re: from K2S
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2017 10:54 am
Looking at the pictures I can only see 2 Carburetors so I guess each one must have fed both cylinders? There appears to be a starter motor slung underneath the engine(you can see it in the reflection of the underside of the engine) and it looks like the rear brake shoes were operated by hydraulics. I wonder where the oil pump was located...
Re: from K2S
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2017 5:27 pm
Very nice, but doesn't float my boat.
Would not rush out and buy one if available.
Would not rush out and buy one if available.
Re: from K2S
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2017 9:09 pm
Yes bit like the GT750 KETTLE!Nigel S wrote:Very nice, but doesn't float my boat.
Would not rush out and buy one if available.
Re: from K2S
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 8:30 pm
SAM wrote:Yes bit like the GT750 KETTLE!Nigel S wrote:Very nice, but doesn't float my boat.
Would not rush out and buy one if available.
The thing is Sam that I would possibly buy a kettle. But the square four Kawasaki just doesn't get my juices going. Maybe its just me.
Re: from K2S
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 11:16 pm
I like it apart from the Z400 Tank!! 
Re: from K2S
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 10:18 am
It wouldn't have sold in great numbers when released. Rg500s and RD500s didn't sell tOO many, but look at them now; price wise, and what folk have done with them "hot ridding " in the past.Nigel S wrote:SAM wrote:Yes bit like the GT750 KETTLE!Nigel S wrote:Very nice, but doesn't float my boat.
Would not rush out and buy one if available.
The thing is Sam that I would possibly buy a kettle. But the square four Kawasaki just doesn't get my juices going. Maybe its just me.
Imagine a square four Triple Kawa in a ZXR rolling Chassis with Spannies etc. VROOOMMM!!!!
Re: from K2S
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 7:29 pm
10400 RG. 500 built don't know how many RG 400 were built and they'ren't included on the 10400. But the two engines are very different not from conception but from parts which aren't interchangable. 
What we have hear about the square four: engine less powerfull than H2 and heavier.
Won't be a succeful model.
But listen to me, if someone wants give one to me: I would take it, say thanks you... And ride it
What we have hear about the square four: engine less powerfull than H2 and heavier.
Won't be a succeful model.
But listen to me, if someone wants give one to me: I would take it, say thanks you... And ride it
Re: from K2S
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 8:07 pm
It was designed for the touring market, and probably heavier than a kettle. HP wasn't supposed to be great either. As far as hopping up, would be in the same boat as the Suki kettle guys, fighting off weight, and still a piston port.