{"id":131,"date":"2009-07-22T22:29:50","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T02:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kz750twins.com\/?p=131"},"modified":"2015-05-10T09:40:34","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T13:40:34","slug":"front-brake-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kz750twins.com\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"Front Brake Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(This post is created from content contributed by KTOF member Steell)<\/p>\n<p>Want *real* stopping power from the front brake on your old KZ750 B or G model?\u00a0 Want double-disk performance without breaking the bank?<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, you don&#8217;t need to replace the wheel, there are provisions for the second disk on the stock wheel.\u00a0 But there are a few other components you will need to add or swap out.<\/p>\n<p>The stock single disk is thicker and heavier than dual disk brake rotors, so you are best off to replace your one single rotor with two from a bike with a dual-disk setup (77-80 KZ1000, maybe 78-79 KZ650 but check diameter).<\/p>\n<p>So you want killer brakes on that bike?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>77-80 KZ1000 12&#8243; brake rotors<\/li>\n<li>83-85 GPz750 calipers<\/li>\n<li>95-96 GPz1100 master cylinder<\/li>\n<li>Stainless steel brake lines<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It will stop you on a dime and give you change back&#8230;\u00a0<br \/>\nI just described the brakes on my &#8217;79 750 twin (specifically: rotors are 79 KZ1000, calipers are 83 GPz750, master cylinder is 96 GPz1100), so I know it works.<\/p>\n<p>The same calipers are used on other models, same thing with the master cylinder, I just don&#8217;t remember what models\/years used them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(This post is created from content contributed by KTOF member Steell) Want *real* stopping power from the front brake on your old KZ750 B or G model?\u00a0 Want double-disk performance without breaking the bank? Fortunately, you don&#8217;t need to replace&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/kz750twins.com\/?p=131\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-suspension"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEJEp-27","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kz750twins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kz750twins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kz750twins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kz750twins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kz750twins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kz750twins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552,"href":"https:\/\/kz750twins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kz750twins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kz750twins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kz750twins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}