29mm smoothbores?!?! on a 150 dollar bike?!

so guys, i bought this kz 650 a few months ago for this summers project and didnt get much time to look at the bike other than the nice mac exhaust and quality 2 up seat it had. this last weekend i went home and got my bikes running and checked the new one out and it had aftermarket coils, chrome guage covers, nearly new tires, all covers were in great shape, the original kawasaki tool kit, and most interesting to me, WAAYYY different carbs than i have on my other 650 sr...doing some research, i am nearly positive they are smoothies! how can i be certain??? i have a picture but its on my phone and is crap quality, it has the 17 mm drain plugs on the bottom... thats all i know for id'ing them!

help!!

im pretty stoked about it i paid 150 for the complete bike with clear title

Some of the early VM28's had the 17mm drain screw as well. Post a picture of the air filter side of the carbs and somebody will be able to identify them.

those float bowls fit pretty much everything from early 28s on z1 900s to 24s off kz650s,26s,newer 28s and 29 smoothbores.
the smoothbores are made of aluminum and weigh next to nothing compared to the regular die cast zinc bodied carbs,got a picture?

so what is the verdict?

Looks like a smoothbore to me. Congrats, you got a good score on that one.

what he said!

bearshawk wrote:

so what is the verdict?

this just in...

the jury has reached a verdict


buy a camera...

hahah i have a REALLY nice camera, however the bikes are at home and im at school 2 hours away and when i thought back to this weekend (when i was home and looking at the bikes) i thought something looked a bit different so i had my brother snap some pics with his phone

here are a

few pics....the 29's changed a bit to from the early to last ones i believe...

mine look most like the last pic shown here

I'll give you $300 and a stock set of 24 mm carbs that are from a KZ650cc.
100% profit from your investment and a free set of carbs.
What good business investment that would be.
PM me if interested. I'll send you pics of carbs. Carbs still have stock overflow tubes and clear (yellowed vent tubes)

Marty in Buffalo

the pic triangle posted that have the little square box obove the bowl on the right. is what your looking for when determaning 29 smothies

So are these like the holy grail of carbs for some of these old bikes? What size bikes can they be put on?