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|name = Kawasaki | |name = Kawasaki Z1100D Spectre | ||
| | |photo =1983-kawasaki-kz1100-d2.jpg | ||
|aka = Spectre | |aka = Spectre | ||
|manufacturer = | |manufacturer = Kawasaki | ||
|parent_company = | |parent_company = | ||
|production = | |production = 1982 - 83 | ||
|model_year = | |model_year = | ||
|predecessor = | |predecessor = | ||
|successor = | |successor = | ||
|class = | |class = Cruiser | ||
|engine = | |engine = 1089 [[cc]], Four stroke, transverse four cylinder, DOHC, 2 [[valve]] per cylinder. | ||
|bore_stroke = | |bore_stroke = | ||
|compression = | |compression = 8.9:1 | ||
|top_speed = | |top_speed = 142 mph / 228 km/h | ||
|power = | |power = | ||
|torque = | |torque = | ||
|ignition = | |fuel_system = | ||
|spark_plug = {{sparkplug|B8ES}} '82-83 | |ignition = CDI | ||
|battery = {{battery|YB18L-A}} '82-83 | |spark_plug = {{sparkplug|NGK B8ES}} '82-83 | ||
|transmission = | |battery = {{battery|YUASA YB18L-A}} '82-83 | ||
|frame = | |transmission = 5 Speed | ||
|suspension = | |frame = Tubular mild steel, double front downtubes | ||
|brakes = | |suspension =Front: 38mm Air assisted telescopic forks, 152mm [[wheel]] travel. <br> | ||
|front_tire = {{tire|}} | Rear: Single air shock 4-way adjustable rebound damping, 102mm wheel travel | ||
|rear_tire = {{tire|130/90-16}} | |brakes =Front: 2x 270mm discs 1 [[calipers]] <br>Rear: Single 270mm disc 1 caliper | ||
|rake_trail = | |front_tire = {{tire|3.25H19}} | ||
|wheelbase = | |rear_tire = {{tire|130/90-16}} | ||
|length = | |rake_trail = | ||
|width = | |wheelbase = | ||
|height = | |length = | ||
|seat_height = | |width = | ||
|dry_weight = | |height = | ||
|wet_weight = | |seat_height = 760 mm / 30.0 In | ||
|fuel_capacity = | |dry_weight = | ||
|oil_capacity = | |wet_weight = | ||
|fuel_consumption = | |fuel_capacity = 21.4 Liters / 5.6 US gal | ||
|turning_radius = | |oil_capacity = | ||
|related = | |oil_filter = {{oilfilter|K&N KN-401}}<ref name="kl_2019">{{cite book|title=2019 K&L Supply Co Catalog|publisher=[https://www.klsupply.com/ K&L Supply Co]|date=2019}}</ref> | ||
|competition = | |recommended_oil=K-tech 10W-40 | ||
|fuel_consumption = | |||
|turning_radius = | |||
|related = | |||
|competition = | |||
|final_drive=Shaft `82-83<ref name="wps_street_2019">{{cite book|title=2019 Western Power Sports Catalog|publisher=[https://www.wps-inc.com/catalogs Western Power Sports]|date=2019}}</ref> | |||
}} | }} | ||
The '''Kawasaki KZ1100D ''' is a [[motorcycle]] produced by [[Kawasaki]] from 1982 to 1983. | The '''Kawasaki KZ1100D ''' is a [[motorcycle]] produced by [[Kawasaki]] from 1982 to 1983. | ||
It could reach a top speed of 142 mph / 228 km/h. | |||
==Engine== | |||
The engine was a Air cooled cooled Four stroke, transverse four cylinder, DOHC, 2 valve per cylinder.. The engine featured a 8.9:1 [[compression ratio]]. | |||
==Drive== | |||
Power was moderated via the Wet, multi-plate. | |||
==Chassis== | |||
It came with a 3.25H19 front [[tire]] and a 130/90-16 rear tire. Stopping was achieved via 2x 270mm discs 1 calipers in the front and a Single 270mm disc 1 [[caliper]] in the rear. The front suspension was a 38mm Air assisted telescopic forks, 152mm wheel travel. while the rear was equipped with a Single air shock 4-way adjustable rebound damping, 102mm wheel travel. The Z1100D Spectre was fitted with a 21.4 Liters / 5.6 US gal fuel tank. | |||
==1982== | ==1982== | ||
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*Color | *Color | ||
**Fuel Tank: Two Tone Ebony | **Fuel Tank: Two Tone Ebony | ||
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*Owner's Manual No: 99922-1205-01, (C)(U) 99920-1177-01 | *Owner's Manual No: 99922-1205-01, (C)(U) 99920-1177-01 | ||
*Changes: Color and graphic | *Changes: Color and graphic | ||
==Review== | |||
Don't think of it as the After Midnight Special. The Spectre is a pure | |||
cheaterbike all on its own. | |||
BY LARRY WORKS | |||
You're familiar with the scenario, no doubt. Even if you haven't lived it, | |||
you've probably wanted to. You pull up to a stopany stop will do and dismount. | |||
Then gradually, but with increasing frequency, passersby stop to ask you about | |||
your bike. Eventually a crowd forms. Fans, no less. | |||
What they've gathered to ogle is the obvious handiwork that went into | |||
transforming some big-numbers production machine into what stopped them in their | |||
tracks-something altogether different. Something that looks like only a | |||
craftsman with a clear vision of the finished product could build it. Not simply | |||
a motorcycle but a statement, shaped of hard materials and a flexible | |||
imagination. | |||
If you can't picture it happening, you're out of luck, because that's | |||
what riding Kawasaki's new KZ1100 Spectre is like, for better or for worse. | |||
Worse, because if you're the retiring type, the kind who shies away from | |||
accepting credit for someone else's work, you'll just have to live with it. | |||
Because from its gold-painted engine cases to its wrinkle-finished black | |||
instrument pods, the Spectre generates the impression that its rider had more of | |||
a hand in its creation than simply signing a check. | |||
To view the Spectre from the proper perspective, you need first vent all the | |||
After Midnight Special humor. Granted, there are similarities between the | |||
Spectre and a | |||
Midnight Special. At the core of both Kawasaki's limited-edition Spectre and | |||
Yamaha's extremely limited (now so limited as to be discontinued) Midnight | |||
Special is the application of a black-and-gold graphics scheme to a big-bore | |||
street cruiser. And true enough, the Spectre, Kawasaki's first such venture with | |||
LTD-type hardware, is, like the Midnight bike, shaft-driven. But there the | |||
comparison stops. Because while the Spectre might have been tracking in the same | |||
general direction as Yamaha's entry, it wasn't following in its treadmarks. | |||
Yamaha's black-and-gold cruiser had a glossy, production look, while the Spectre | |||
casts an altogether different shadow. Subtle differences, to be sure, but still | |||
noticeable, even by the in-the-street uninitiate. The Spectre is not so much | |||
factory-chopper as factory-custom, with the emphasis clearly off of factory. | |||
You could probably take the "factory" out of the Spectre's description | |||
completely, if you were so inclinedi The basis for the exercise would be a | |||
bog-standard KZ1100A, Kawasaki's touring-oriented shaftie. Leave the | |||
double-front downtube frame and the DOHC engine intact. Even the A's cams, 8.9:1 | |||
compression ratio, valves and gear ratios make the transition from super-tourer | |||
to blockbuster, because the change is almost exclusively for the eye of the | |||
beholder. But toss away the A's humpback 5.6-gallon fuel tank in favor of a | |||
tear-shaped 3.8-gallon unit more in keeping with the esthetics of the boulevard. | |||
And deep-six the A's Mark One handlebar for one with a bit more street savvy. | |||
Then, while you assault/bob the fenders and exhaust pipes, send the seat out to | |||
be lowered and to have its front section "dished." After that, cut the rear | |||
wheel travel by about half an inch to guarantee a low seat height, stiffen up on | |||
the springing and damping at both ends and reduce the steering head angle by one | |||
degree. Finally, for sheer brazen vanity, replace the A's 3.50x19 front tire | |||
with a 3.25x19 to make the front end look slimmer. | |||
Only then could you get out your paint. You'd need lots of gold because the | |||
Spectre is a veritable orgy of the stuff. It shows up on the cast wheels, the | |||
bodies of the Kayaba air shocks, the engine cases, the rocker covers, the fork | |||
sliders and in some tasteful mock pinstriping on the Spectre's sheetmetal/plastic. | |||
And you'd need black, an armload of black, because chrome was apparently | |||
anathema to the Spectre's design staff. Just about the only places you'll find | |||
shiny silver on the Spectre are the disc rotors, the polished rims of the wheels | |||
and on a few isolated nuts and bolts. Not only are the exhaust pipes | |||
black-chromed, the handlebar is black, the four 34mm constant-vacuum Mikunis are | |||
black, the turn-signals and padded grabrail are black and most of the Spectre | |||
bodywork is black as well. Fork boots (remember fork boots on street bikes?) | |||
were even added to keep the air-spring fork assembly a combination of | |||
black-and-goldbut without running the Spectre's as-yet-unannounced pricetag out | |||
of sight. | |||
To top off your home-brewed Spectre, you'd need burgundy, to accent the black | |||
with contrasting panels on the fenders, tank and sidecovers. And what you'd have | |||
at the end of all that reworking, reshaping and repigmenting would be either | |||
(depending on your own skills) a rough one-off of a Spectre or a customizer's | |||
nightmare. Or, Kawasaki could simply do the work in the first place. Either way, | |||
the world at large is likely to conclude that you did it all yourself. | |||
What you'd get in the case of the factory-built genuine Spectre, though, is | |||
an ergonomics layout designed for the task: cruisingbut cruising without the | |||
traditional sit-up-and-beg riding position. You can affect an | |||
arms-locked, bolt-upright posture if some reason of orthopedic necessity or | |||
appearance demands it, but the Spectre itself poses no such requirements. The | |||
footpegs, which mount in the same position as on the A-model, don't seem nearly | |||
so far forward on the D-mqdel Spectre. The Spectre's shorter tank allows the | |||
rider to be positioned relatively farther forward, making the footpeg placement | |||
seem natural. And the Spectre's handlebar, with more rise and more pullback than | |||
the A's bar, reduces the amount of bend required at the rider's waist to reach | |||
both foot and hand controls. The result is a comfortable forward cant; not a | |||
roadracy crouch, but also not the broomstick-up-the-spine approach demanded by | |||
others of the boulevard genre. A Spectre rider also need not suffer the | |||
indignities of shatterhand, since the D-model's handlebar is none too radical, | |||
positioning the handgripsand Kawasaki's new finger-contoured leversin a | |||
natural location that doesn't require full-arm contortions to work the throttle. | |||
When the throttle is exercised, however, much of the flattering fakery | |||
about the Spectre falls by the wayside. The basso exhaust note pumping out of | |||
the shorty pipes will dispell any notions about who built the powerplant. The | |||
sound is pure Z-l Modern, regardless of what the surrounding decor hints at. And | |||
fortunately, Z-l Modern includes Kawasaki's air suction system, which allows | |||
carb settings not cripplingly | |||
EPA-lean, so the Spectre warms to the task and is ready to roll in short | |||
time. | |||
Short time is also what you have after the throttle moves and before the | |||
engine reacts. The Spectre, despite any horsepower losses inflicted by the shaft | |||
final drive, is still a moverbut a three-way rubber engine mount system assures | |||
that it isn't a shaker. The shaft final drive does provide a bit of rise and | |||
squat with engine acceleration/deceleration, but only enough to note, not to | |||
object to. Shaft-drive losses or additions notwithstanding, our Spectre test | |||
bike produced an 11.99-second quarter-milemore than sufficient for any level of | |||
around-town blockbusting. So what you get with a big fist of Spectre throttle is | |||
not simply hard acceleration, but to be gone. | |||
Despite the obvious pavement-ripping qualities endemic to the mating of a | |||
monster motor and a 130/90x16 Dunlop Qualifier rear tire, the Spectre proves its | |||
street worth when the engine isn't revving hard. Then, firmly in Main Street | |||
mode, you learn to appreciate not only how 1090cc can ma|ie the scenery stretch | |||
breathtakingly away when you yank on the go-stick, but how easily it can make | |||
the world slide by when a gentler hand is applied. And the Spectre makes it | |||
embarrassingly easy to cruise. The engine pulls strongly from 1500 rpm on up, so | |||
five easy clicks of the slick gearbox can leave you anywhere from urban trawling | |||
speed all the way up to abject foolishness, depending on how hard you twist the | |||
throttle. Even sustained riding in high gear at sub-2000-rpm engine speeds won't | |||
coax a stumble from the Mikunis, so all you're left with is minding the | |||
impet-uousness of your right hand and unobtrusively checking out the reflection | |||
in store-front windows. That, and honing your y routine for when you're asked | |||
how you ever got the idea for gold engine cases. | |||
Besides having its cruise-speed act down pat, the Spectre also is armed for | |||
the free-fire zone that on-street parking has become. In addition to the usual | |||
fork lock at the ignition switch, the Spectre thwarts unauthorized rapid changes | |||
in possession with Kawasaki's exclusive centerstand lock, also conveniently | |||
operated by the ignition key. With the centerstand locked in the down position, | |||
rollaway thefts are out of the question, and the Spectre's own 553-pound | |||
avoirdupois actively discourages carryoffs. If you require still more in the | |||
line of anti-theft insurance, Kawasaki offers an additional rider policy in the | |||
form of an optional cable lock, which nestles out of the way in a left-side | |||
frame member when not in use. | |||
So, prowling urban streets or passing time in parking lots the Spectre does | |||
handily, but they aren't | |||
necessarily what it does best, especially when you consider that beneath the | |||
custom livery lies most of the running gear of the 1100A tourer. All of which | |||
means that the Spectre is one street cruiser that won't fall on its knees when | |||
you reach the city limits. | |||
Much of the reason the Spectre doesn't give up the ghost at the prospect of | |||
out-of-town riding lies in its suspension adjustability. Like the KZ1100A, the | |||
Spectre relies on air-assisted suspension, front and rear, to take the sting out | |||
of road jolts. A leading-axle air-spring fork with 38mm stanchion-tube diameter | |||
and a balance tube handles the front-end tasks, while nitrogen-filled Kayaba air | |||
shocks cushion the rear. The shocks are adjustable to four damping settings, and | |||
the air pressure can be changed for both shocks at the equalizer line under the | |||
seat. | |||
With the suspension bits adjusted to touring-soft, the Spectre does a fair | |||
approximation of a full-time luxotourer. Sliding friction at the bearing | |||
surfaces in the fork allows some of the jolt of sharp-edged expansion joints to | |||
work back to the rider, but it usually reads out as a minor jar, not a relief | |||
map of the road surface. And the Spectre's rear end, assisted in part by the | |||
flexing of the multi-grade foam in the well-shaped saddle, offers up a | |||
comfortable ride. What little vibration there is at highway speeds and faster is | |||
a slight tingle through the handlebar, but it isn't even enough to blur the | |||
images in the Spectre's tinted mirrors. The handling is twitch-free and suited | |||
to low-effort riding for long distances. The only sour note in the Spectre's | |||
highway performance comes from its abbreviated exhausts, which churn out a | |||
substantial rumble that tires the rider long before the rest of the bike will. | |||
All in all, the Spectre offers a fairly convincing argument that street cruising | |||
can be state-to-state as well as stoplight-to-stoplight. | |||
That same argument can be applied to more spirited riding as well. Heavy | |||
inputs aren't required to get the Spectre heeled over to respectable lean | |||
angles. And good braking afforded by the triple discs, as welr^P | |||
as the engine's ability to pull the Spectre out of | |||
turns at high exit speeds, makes^a eight-tenths riding part of the bike's pro-^" | |||
gram. Flat-out backroads hauling will point out the Spectre's | |||
street-cruiser predilectionsand weightas a slow . wobble in hard cornering, | |||
but to label the bike as somehow flawed for any sport riding is to miss the | |||
point entirely. | |||
All that high-speed roadwork proves is that there are other more-specialized | |||
machines more adept atand more adapted tostraightening curves. And the | |||
prospective Spectre buyer knows that there are other, faster bikes out there for | |||
pure sport ridingat least he should. But what he should also know from the | |||
outset that the Spectre forces a decision: You either have to affect a | |||
shucks-gosh-darn attitude about accepting misdirected praise for all the | |||
well-thought-out custom licks you applied to make your bike ... or you might as | |||
well keep on riding. | |||
Source CYCLE GUIDE 1982 | |||
CYCLE GUIDE | |||
==Specifications== | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|- | |||
!Make Model | |||
|Kawasaki KZ1100D Spectre | |||
|- | |||
!Year | |||
|1982 - 83 | |||
|- | |||
!Engine Type | |||
|Four stroke, transverse four cylinder, DOHC, 2 valve per cylinder. | |||
|- | |||
!Displacement | |||
|1089 cc / 66.4 cu-in | |||
|- | |||
!Bore X Stroke | |||
|72.5 x 66mm | |||
|- | |||
!Cooling System | |||
|Air cooled | |||
|- | |||
!Compression | |||
|8.9:1 | |||
|- | |||
!Induction | |||
|4x 34mm Mikuni constant-vacuum | |||
|- | |||
!Ignition | |||
|CDI | |||
|- | |||
!Starting | |||
|Electric | |||
|- | |||
!Max Power | |||
|108 hp @ 8500rpm | |||
|- | |||
!Max Torque | |||
|9.8 kgf-m @ 7000 rpm | |||
|- | |||
!Clutch | |||
|Wet, multi-plate | |||
|- | |||
!Transmission | |||
|5 Speed | |||
|- | |||
!Final Drive | |||
|Shaft | |||
|- | |||
!Gear Ratio | |||
|I 2.643 11.239 6.6 II 1.833 7.795 9.5 III 1.429 6.077 122 IV 1.174 4.992 14.8 V 1.040 4.423 16.7 | |||
|- | |||
!Frame | |||
|Tubular mild steel, double front downtubes | |||
|- | |||
!Front Suspension | |||
|38mm Air assisted telescopic forks, 152mm wheel travel. | |||
|- | |||
!Rear Suspension | |||
|Single air shock 4-way adjustable rebound damping, 102mm wheel travel | |||
|- | |||
!Front Brakes | |||
|2x 270mm discs 1 calipers | |||
|- | |||
!Rear Brakes | |||
|Single 270mm disc 1 caliper | |||
|- | |||
!Front Tire | |||
|3.25H19 | |||
|- | |||
!Rear Tire | |||
|130/90-16 | |||
|- | |||
!Seat Height | |||
|760 mm / 30.0 In | |||
|- | |||
!Weight | |||
|251 kg / 553lbs | |||
|- | |||
!Fuel Capacity | |||
|21.4 Liters / 5.6 US gal | |||
|- | |||
!Consumption Average | |||
|37 mpg | |||
|- | |||
!Standing ¼ Mile | |||
|11.960 sec., 110.42 mph /178 km/h | |||
|- | |||
!Top Speed | |||
|142 mph / 228 km/h | |||
|} | |||
==References== | |||
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