I’m so glad I found this channel. I have a 95 Zx600C-9 and it is almost impossible to find any related videos to it. Doing a full rebuild might turn her into a street fighter, alright the original plastics are pretty mint on mine
Thanks for dropping me a message. The GPX600 as it's known here in Europe, specifically the C9, was almost one of the last to get on the road. After 10 years the bike just couldn't keep up with Kawasaki's own competition. After 1991 people were way more interested in the ZZR600. Anyway, keep watching, spread the love and have fun with your bike, no matter what you do with it 👍🏻
Hi, Im going to get a couple of GPZ600 A1's as my next resto project, one is running, the guy rides it every now and then apparently, its got the original exhaust system thats still in decent nick (hasn't been dropped) which is a bonus. The other is complete but has a crappy bodged up 4 into one. Theres loads of bits, all of it pretty manky (mainly panels and trim) but not damaged. Both have have home spray jobs (done badly) Both bikes have appear to have suffered what many old bikes here in NZ suffer from once they get old and cheap, bad owners, you know the type, wood screws and jubilee clips everywhere😆 The "good" running one has around 83,000 Km (51,000 miles) on the clock and it appears genuine, a plate check will tell. My questions are, what should i look for? are there any know weaknesses? whats the parts situation like? (The few wreakers left in NZ have been picked clean of anything 80s a long time ago) . I was actually keeping and eye out for a GPX750R but too many of those here, are now Japanese grey imports, with the 77hp restriction and 180 kph speedo, real hard to find a NZ market one. These GPZ600s have caught my eye, and i always liked them back in the day.
Hi and thanks for your message. Well, these bikes are quite resilient and don't have any typical weaknesses that occur specifically on this bike. Like you, I usually have 1 spares bike together with the project bike, but over the last 20 years of working on these bikes, I've seen the same story, I always end up with a pile of parts I don't need and no one wants, and end up taking them to the local scrap metal dealer. What I can say is, it's always clever to have a spare CDI. Lots of people have mentioned that theirs have failed. They break down under thermal stress, but it's never happened to me. The carbs can be twitchy, in particular the diaphragms, they often get nipped under the top covers .. and the boots between the carbs and airbox. Prone to shrinking and letting air into the carbs . Apart from that, there isn't much in a way of typical for this bike.
@@MrLefthooker Cheers for that, one other thing, in amongst the boxs of bits was the remains of a 3rd GPZ600R and the clocks that came off that one had the speed in the larger binnacle and the tach in the small one. Which is the opposite of every GPZ ive ever seen. Apart from that they are exactly like every other set of 600R clocks, ever seen that before? I was thinking it was from a foreign market bike.
@@uhtred7860 I have not seen this before. What speed does it go up to? The only other anomaly in the clocks I have seen, but to be honest I haven't quite understand why some bikes have them, is something I have observed over the years, are alternative clocks (which also had no volt button and the needles pointed downwards in the resting position) are original Kawasaki from other models, zx10 tomcat for example (although the speed shows to 300 kmh on the zx10). It doesn't seem to be a phenomenon specific to a country, moreover the model year. But again, there are always exceptions to any rules I try to see. Additional to this, you never know what changes have been made to these bikes in the past nearly 4 decades. So, yes, I know that some of the GPZ600 were sold with these, and the only pattern I can see is the very last ones, 1989/1990 (for example the black/gold ones), seem to have them more often, so maybe they ran out of parts? It remains a mystery.
@@uhtred7860 Again, the differences are not country specific ,, all GPZs worldwide have as standard the big tach on left with orange needle and small speedo right also with orange needle. It also has the Volt check button to the left of the Trip Reset button as standard. You also have MPH in white numerals and inside that KMH in Blue. This is different on the continent, we just have white KMH and no other digits
I’m so glad I found this channel. I have a 95 Zx600C-9 and it is almost impossible to find any related videos to it. Doing a full rebuild might turn her into a street fighter, alright the original plastics are pretty mint on mine
Thanks for dropping me a message. The GPX600 as it's known here in Europe, specifically the C9, was almost one of the last to get on the road. After 10 years the bike just couldn't keep up with Kawasaki's own competition. After 1991 people were way more interested in the ZZR600. Anyway, keep watching, spread the love and have fun with your bike, no matter what you do with it 👍🏻
Tengo una gpz 600r año 85 pero me faltan piezas no logro hacer la encender ? Necesito su ayuda😢
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Hi, Im going to get a couple of GPZ600 A1's as my next resto project, one is running, the guy rides it every now and then apparently, its got the original exhaust system thats still in decent nick (hasn't been dropped) which is a bonus. The other is complete but has a crappy bodged up 4 into one. Theres loads of bits, all of it pretty manky (mainly panels and trim) but not damaged. Both have have home spray jobs (done badly) Both bikes have appear to have suffered what many old bikes here in NZ suffer from once they get old and cheap, bad owners, you know the type, wood screws and jubilee clips everywhere😆 The "good" running one has around 83,000 Km (51,000 miles) on the clock and it appears genuine, a plate check will tell. My questions are, what should i look for? are there any know weaknesses? whats the parts situation like? (The few wreakers left in NZ have been picked clean of anything 80s a long time ago) . I was actually keeping and eye out for a GPX750R but too many of those here, are now Japanese grey imports, with the 77hp restriction and 180 kph speedo, real hard to find a NZ market one. These GPZ600s have caught my eye, and i always liked them back in the day.
Hi and thanks for your message. Well, these bikes are quite resilient and don't have any typical weaknesses that occur specifically on this bike. Like you, I usually have 1 spares bike together with the project bike, but over the last 20 years of working on these bikes, I've seen the same story, I always end up with a pile of parts I don't need and no one wants, and end up taking them to the local scrap metal dealer. What I can say is, it's always clever to have a spare CDI. Lots of people have mentioned that theirs have failed. They break down under thermal stress, but it's never happened to me. The carbs can be twitchy, in particular the diaphragms, they often get nipped under the top covers .. and the boots between the carbs and airbox. Prone to shrinking and letting air into the carbs . Apart from that, there isn't much in a way of typical for this bike.
@@MrLefthooker Cheers for that, one other thing, in amongst the boxs of bits was the remains of a 3rd GPZ600R and the clocks that came off that one had the speed in the larger binnacle and the tach in the small one. Which is the opposite of every GPZ ive ever seen. Apart from that they are exactly like every other set of 600R clocks, ever seen that before? I was thinking it was from a foreign market bike.
@@uhtred7860 I have not seen this before. What speed does it go up to? The only other anomaly in the clocks I have seen, but to be honest I haven't quite understand why some bikes have them, is something I have observed over the years, are alternative clocks (which also had no volt button and the needles pointed downwards in the resting position) are original Kawasaki from other models, zx10 tomcat for example (although the speed shows to 300 kmh on the zx10). It doesn't seem to be a phenomenon specific to a country, moreover the model year. But again, there are always exceptions to any rules I try to see. Additional to this, you never know what changes have been made to these bikes in the past nearly 4 decades. So, yes, I know that some of the GPZ600 were sold with these, and the only pattern I can see is the very last ones, 1989/1990 (for example the black/gold ones), seem to have them more often, so maybe they ran out of parts? It remains a mystery.
@@MrLefthooker So do UK spec bikes have Big Tach, small speedo, or Big speedo, small tach??
@@uhtred7860 Again, the differences are not country specific ,, all GPZs worldwide have as standard the big tach on left with orange needle and small speedo right also with orange needle. It also has the Volt check button to the left of the Trip Reset button as standard. You also have MPH in white numerals and inside that KMH in Blue. This is different on the continent, we just have white KMH and no other digits