Reminds me of my old kettle I restored in the 80's! It was a '74 model with disc brakes, it was rough and had a lot of corrosion, and the RH cylinder crank seal was bad. Replaced that and it was right as rain! To think, when I was restoring that bike it was just over 10 years old and it was seen as almost antique even then! That bike was quick and pulled strong, and for someone who didn't know what it could do, it was surprising. My boss has one in a shed on his property i've been trying to get from him, and it's got a Strader 3 into 1 exhaust.
These bikes were very unique one of a kind type design. I have a 74 with a 3 into 1 up next that need some TLC. I Love the sound of that expansion exhaust.
My stock pipes were partly missing and not worth tracking down parts to fix, and a shop had a new set of chambers for it for a good price, so i went with those, it sounded and ran great. As for those engines, Erv Kanemoto, later top tuner for Honda's GP team, built Gary Nixon's GT motor, word from a friend who knew Erv, and was a bike mechanic himself, was that those engines could be built to make upwards of 120 HP, and were popular for sidecar racing. The kawasaki engine cases couldn't handle that for any length of time! The entire triple series were fantastic bikes really, I've worked on all of them, Suzuki really knew 2 strokes, being as they helped get Mz's top tuners out of east germany back in the 60's!@@mudtrack1
