Kawasaki Z-1500-2

A mate in Tassie saw this bike in a museum. According to the blurb it's
one of two imported into Oz.

Looking at the style of the bikini fairing (simialar to what I had on my
then new 82 GSX-1100) and the tank, which is similar to the Z-1000, it
looks to be around 1980 vintage. And it's apparently based on the Z1300,
which makes sense, given that it looks a lot like it.

Were the Z1300s fuel injected or carby?

I've never heard of this particular model before. My only knowledge of
fuel injected Kawasakis is the GPZ-1100 of similar era.

Any of you guys seen or heard of this before?

The museum is (if I recall what my mate reckons) the Tasmanian Royal
Auto Car Museum, Launceston.

http://home.austarnet.com.au/mtaylor/z1500-1.jpg
http://home.austarnet.com.au/mtaylor/z1500-2.jpg
http://home.austarnet.com.au/mtaylor/z1500-3.jpg

Each file's between 500 and 700kays in size.

 

It just looks like a fairly modified Z1300 to me. (The muffler, spotties
etc.)
I'm sure it's a home-built.
--
Clem
[The green Z13 was carby everywhere, the black one was carby here and EFI
in the USA. I think it was discontinued before we got the EFI one here but
it lasted a lot longer in the US]
~

 

Hammo heard a rumour that they had some sort of fuel electronics, but he
never found a working example

Cheers
Goaty

 

early models were Carby, later models were FI
I had a FI model, held 6.8 litres of oil in sump, but only held 3 litres of
water in cooling system
Mick Chester