Rz 500

**imdying** · 16th September 2008, 09:31

Well if it all does get too much (heaven forbid), don't just sell it to the first retard... sell it to someone (like me

) who'll spend a million dollars on it lavishing it with the attention and carpted garaging it deserves

**imdying** · 16th September 2008, 09:32

http://www.twostrokeshop.com/Aprilia_RS500_2008.htm

never mind the enviro-hippies and the adherents of 'predictable, controllable, linear four-stroke power

Yeah, that gives me wood

**nudemetalz** · 16th September 2008, 10:20

Originally Posted by dipshit

Not for me it wasn't. My RZ had been worked over quite heavily and was around 50% up over standard hp. Good old Robert Taylor, technical manager of Yamaha NZ at the time had supplied my mechanic factory plans for doubling their hp. Had the porting and headwork done, just hadn't got as far as fitting TZ carbs and making the expansion chambers.

Did the cranks stand up to that much more hp?
And how would you have got on with the carbs as they would not have been easy to fit?

I had chambers on mine at one stage, gave it a bit more power but made it rev higher (ie 11500rpm).
But the main thing was IT SOUNDED BLOODY FANTASTIC !!!

**dipshit** · 17th September 2008, 07:48

Originally Posted by nudemetalz

Did the cranks stand up to that much more hp?

Yep.

And how would you have got on with the carbs as they would not have been easy to fit?

It was all detailed in the plans how to do it.

**orangeback** · 17th September 2008, 07:53

Originally Posted by nudemetalz

ohhh,..........

I loved my RZ500, wish I had never sold it.
That sound brings back memories for me also !!!

i hated mine and i was glade to the arse end ove it , and i was silly enough to have more than one ?

**Rcktfsh** · 22nd September 2008, 09:49

Originally Posted by svr

Only problem with the RZ500 was the RG500

Can't remember an RG winning the Castrol 6 Hour

**F5 Dave** · 22nd September 2008, 10:13

Sheesh, how many fuel stops would you have to do?

I ebay'd a RZ500 kickstart lever, should be here this week maybe?

**Rcktfsh** · 22nd September 2008, 12:29

Originally Posted by F5 Dave

Sheesh, how many fuel stops would you have to do?

I ebay'd a RZ500 kickstart lever, should be here this week maybe?

Funny you should mention that Dave....they ran out of gas on the warm down lap, the race also started slightly late but due to TV committments finished on the hour. The 2nd place Honda crew appeared on the rostrum with a fairly full jug of gas that they'd drained from there tank at the finish, something about being sore losers apparently. Really though it was Wayne Gardener's radical tactic of hitting the kill switch just as he passed Richard Scott to take the lead with a couple of mins to go that probably backfired on them. Fair to say that this hasn't been a race strategy commonly embraced since Honda Aus pioneered it

.

**F5 Dave** · 22nd September 2008, 12:33

Ahh that's why I didn't remember it, you meant in Aus. Never really watched many 6hrs here, they are painfully boring, although the only one I attended in person we were all taking bets if Slights Yam would drop a valve, after all there were 20 of the buggers. Surely it couldn't last.

**cs363** · 22nd September 2008, 19:34

Originally Posted by Rcktfsh

Can't remember an RG winning the Castrol 6 Hour

Frankly, the way you've treated your brain cells over the years allied with breathing in all that two-stroke smoke, I'm surprised you can even remember that far back.....

**del-solider** · 23rd September 2008, 11:34

Reading all of your guys comments has got me all excited

i got a Tzr250 and thats enough for me lol..... for now

Theres a RZ on trademe atm http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Mo...-172481531.htm

**nudemetalz** · 23rd September 2008, 15:36

That's the RZV Jap-domestic model - alloy frame and better front suspension but restricted power, from memory about 86hp down to 69hp (IIRC).
Still beautiful though and I'm sure she can be made to go decently.

Now if I had the money and/or a wife that would let me I would buy it !!!!

**imdying** · 23rd September 2008, 15:48

Naw, it's a steel framed RZ500. (note the lack of detail around the swingarm pivot point, plus the RZ500 stickers, RZV ones are generally on the side fairings, not the belly pan iirc.

**nudemetalz** · 23rd September 2008, 16:17

Originally Posted by imdying

Naw, it's a steel framed RZ500. (note the lack of detail around the swingarm pivot point, plus the RZ500 stickers, RZV ones are generally on the side fairings, not the belly pan iirc.

oops, so it is (

as he has another look...).
Been a long day at work.