Latest addition to the 4th......1983 ZX1100A1 (GPz1100)

[MickLC]

Bringing it on Friday? Bags a ride

[fezzick]

Very cool.

[Gosling1]

.....Bringing it on Friday? Bags a ride ....

no rego till next payday *facepalm* - but I should be good Friday week - man its a timewarp !!! longer than a MHR Ducati Mille, and those things were measured by the furlong !!

[Gosling1]

well happy to report that some progress was made yesterday with this old rig. It had that hot-start problem which has been fixed - but had subsequently developed this random issue where it simply wouldn't start at all !

After taking the old girl for a massive strop a couple of weeks ago - where it went just fine thankyouverymuch - it simply refused to start on every attempt since.....

The ECU does have a sequence of faults that are blinked out by an LED on the front (heh it was pretty hi-tech for 1983 ) - and the fault code indicated that there was no engine pulse signal from the coils, being received at the ECU ??

Anyway, did some checking yesterday with the multimeter, as I wanted to ride the geeper to the last cR coffee night for this year.......it seemed that the coils were in fact getting a +12v signal when the ignition was switched on......but still nothing being sensed by the ECU ?? Bizarre......

So I swapped out the ignition unit for a spare - just thinking that there may have been a fault in the Ignition box ?

Bugger me, it cranked up almost straight away.........but even after I swapped back to the old IC igniter - it still started ??

Gave it 10 minutes to cool off a bit............and it wouldn't start at all with that IC igniter fitted. Swapped back to the other (good) one - and instant start. I have left this unit in now - and it started easily at coffee as well as this morning.

So *maybe* just maybe that problem has been solved. Which would be nice, as this bike has 6 months rego on board, and I want to use some of it.......including a bit of a shake-down coast run either later this week or early next week.

Is a lovely old bike to ride, very stable in corners due to the long wheelbase but not something that you can flick through the twisties with a wicked dememeanor - I hope to the do the CDT tour on this bike (with PC riding the Pearl) - we will see how reliable I can get the old Geeper before the end of Feb .....

[MAXUMIS]

First "big" bike i ever owned was a gpz1100, great bike.Good to see you got it sourted.

[plane]

Good on you Gos'!

Love those old GPz's, hope to be picking up an '83 750 basket case, so may be picking your brain for parts suppliers/contacts.

Cheers,
Pete

[Six Addict]

oh now i really wanna come on the cdt

specially to see you lead the train and hold everybody up on the way down hotham

[Gosling1]

.....Love those old GPz's, hope to be picking up an '83 750 basket case, so may be picking your brain for parts suppliers/contacts.......Pete

Hi Pete - long time no see mate

Let me know what you need, there are a few places out there with bits for these bikes - I know a bloke down here who has one of these in parts and hasn't done anything to it for a couple of years.

On ya knees Pinchy looks like it will be the Pearl anyway on the CDT in 2012, the 1100 is going heaps better now I have changed the IC igniter to a different one - but it still has some hesitation issues at WOT, which is not something you want on a CDT !!

[Phil]

.....Love those old GPz's, hope to be picking up an '83 750 basket case, so may be picking your brain for parts suppliers/contacts.......Pete

Hi Pete - long time no see mate

Let me know what you need, there are a few places out there with bits for these bikes - I know a bloke down here who has one of these in parts and hasn't done anything to it for a couple of years.

On ya knees Pinchy looks like it will be the Pearl anyway on the CDT in 2012, the 1100 is going heaps better now I have changed the IC igniter to a different one - but it still has some hesitation issues at WOT, which is not something you want on a CDT !!

Keep working on it Gos, pretty keen to see the GPz in action. I love them too

Although I agree, hesitation at WOT is not something you want on the CDT

[Jonno]

I have wot this time

[Wattie]

I may be skippering a super tanker on the CDT. It hesitates at everything and it's injected!
The 1100 will be fine

[hoffy]

I may be skippering a super tanker on the CDT. It hesitates at everything it's injected!
The 1100 will be fine

At the back on the b%#$*=...the road is not wide enuf to pass that super tanker..

[hoffy]

Ohh hang on, you will have heaps of hard luggage...i better be nice

[Six Addict]

.....Love those old GPz's, hope to be picking up an '83 750 basket case, so may be picking your brain for parts suppliers/contacts.......Pete

Hi Pete - long time no see mate

Let me know what you need, there are a few places out there with bits for these bikes - I know a bloke down here who has one of these in parts and hasn't done anything to it for a couple of years.

On ya knees Pinchy looks like it will be the Pearl anyway on the CDT in 2012, the 1100 is going heaps better now I have changed the IC igniter to a different one - but it still has some hesitation issues at WOT, which is not something you want on a CDT !!

bring the 2fiddy

[plane]

Hi Pete - long time no see mate

Let me know what you need, there are a few places out there with bits for these bikes - I know a bloke down here who has one of these in parts and hasn't done anything to it for a couple of years.

Hi Dave,

Yes it has been a while since I've frequented here as I have spending six days a week on a boat for the past year.

Haven't got the bike here yet, but it sounds as though it is about 98% there. Will let you know how it all turns out if and when the crate arrives.

Cheers,
Pete

P.S. G'day Phil!