SoCal KZ Engine Builder

Anyone have any suggestions for a South California engine builder with KZ experience? Looking for a complete tear down, bore, head and carbs.

I approached a shop that is very competent with sportbikes and their response was "KZ... that is air cooled, we don't work on those."

Funny, I would think these "air cooled" bikes are actually easier to work on.

Maybe what he meant was, those old bikes... I'll fix one thing and 2 more will break while I'm doing it:unsure:

That sounds like the typical response from most shops. You would have better luck finding an old drag racer.

im not allowed to advertise for builders on here FCC regs ya know,but does this give you any ideas of someone in your general area? :laugh:

call the kawi shop in ventura ca. and ask em who builds kz motors in the area....

Other than Pete @ the Ventura shop, I have little or no confidence in them. Pete is one hell of a rider/racer - had on the fastest laps at Willow Springs for a while - also a good tuner, but no time for my project.

Hence me coming to the most knowledgeable group for KZ

i don't know anything about the shop i just thought they might know about this fellow i had had contact with from down that way...i lost my info on him....let me chck another place i might have stored it...this guy offered to do my bore work and said he'd built bunches of kz motors.... i had bought some items from him online and they were as described...and he talked about ltds and motorcycle history in his e-mail to me and sounded like a cool guy...i'll look more...peace

trianglelaguna wrote:

i don't know anything about the shop i just thought they might know about this fellow i had had contact with from down that way...i lost my info on him....let me check another place i might have stored it...this guy offered to do my bore work and said he'd built bunches of kz motors.... i had bought some items from him online and they were as described...and he talked about ltds and motorcycle history in his e-mail to me and sounded like a cool guy...i'll look more...peace

nope..lost it..sorry to chase my goose...peace

Haven't heard of him in years, but If you should run across Pete Snaubelt, I can thnk of no better./G

www.quicksilvercycles.com/

Sent my head and cylinders to APE a few years ago, and they rebuilt the head, made exhaust guides, and machined my cylinders for their Wiseco 615cc Kit. Don't know why anyone wouldn't recommend them? I don't know any of them personally, but they'd get my business.

I hate to remind folks but APE is a site advertiser and supports this website. That would cause me to take a very serious look at using them. They care about older bikes and KZs in particular. When we were talking about the state of the bike parts industry, it looks like APE is more committed to keeping these old bikes alive than most any other manufacturer. KZZONE.com is their website I think.

Thanks for the kind words folks. However we are not engine builders like the gentleman ask for. We do all of the machine work like Corey mentioned, but we do not assemble the motors. Our customers do that part.


Jay