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2003 Kawasaki Z1000
Beware, the following was created with vi *:)
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Specs:
Displacemen t 953cc
Fuel capacity 18 litres (4.0 gallons)
Dry weight 198 kg (437 pounds)
Horsepower 116@rear wheel.
Modifications:
The How and Technical section include information about the biggest modification I've done. Heres the small stuff:
* Bosch compressed air horns:
* PIAA Fog Lights:
* CRG LS bar end mirrors:
* Renthal bars, I also had them anodized to match the forks, and stock bars. PK Selective did the anodizing. They did a great job, I love them.
* Corbin seat:
* A fender eliminator, I can't remember what brand, but it doesn't matter because you don't want it. It didn't fit very well, and uses zipties.
* KisanTech H4 headlight modulator, they call it a 'pathBlazer'. No pic, its a blinking light for pete's sake.
* Sprocket Specialists 42 tooth rear sprocket, no pics.
I no longer ride on the Bridgestones that came with the bike, I tore them up in about 3000 mi. I ride on D208 race pull offs now, *duck*.
I also use synthetic oil(Silkolene)
As of 6/22 the bike has 14,800 mi on it, and is 7 months old.
Links:
Official Kawasaki Z1000 page
Page dedicated to parts/pics of Z1000s
Cool Motorcycle forum Onyerbike Z1000 page
How:
So, why did I create a whole webpage about my motorcycle?
It runs UNIX!
I removed the charcoal can, and cut out most of the plastic casing to install a Shuttle SV24 Flex-ATX motherboard in the tail section. I cut off the rest of the case except for the bare minimum required to bolt in a PCI card on the riser, and all 4 motherboard mounting screws.
I've upgraded the CPU to a P3 Coppermine 1Ghz and added 256MB of RAM. Beneath the 'case', or whats left of it anyway is a 40GB Seagate hard drive.
To make it work with the bike I had to buy a 'PW-200' DC-DC PSU from http://www.mini-box.com/.
I also picked up an ITPS from them as well, it handles voltage regulation and startup/shutdown of the PC.
I bought these as a combined unit on eBay from a seller named 'audioforge'. Shipping was very fast, and he was very nice to deal with. I'd recomend him to anyone.
He said he hopes to have a website up soon.
You can see the ITPS in this picture. It's the small board mounted beneath the case.
The PW-200 can be seen here. It's the small board the ATX connector plugs in to.
If you are wondering what the big red can is, it drives these.
Technical:
Wait you said it ran UNIX, what exactly did you mean?!
The PC itself runs FreeBSD 5.2.1, the best operating system in the world, let the flames begin.
Custom modifications made to it: /etc/rc: Added fsck -y before mount/check filesystem line. This ensures no 'unable to fsck press enter' problems. /etc/fstab: Added 'sync' option to / FS. Causes all writes to be unbuffered. Helps prevent video loss from a power failure. /etc/rc.local: Contains two lines:
kldload bktr, this loads the Brooktree driver that the PCI capture card uses
streamer -o mjpeg.avi -f mjpeg -i Television -t 3:00:00, this program is part of XawTV and is what records the video off the camera/capture card to disk
More info on the Brooktree driver which comes installed by default.
Parts:
Shuttle SV24 Flex-ATX motherboard
256MB RAM
1Ghz P3 Coppermine CPU
PW-200 DC PSU
ITPS voltage regulator/ignition integrator
40GB HD
ATX extender cable
Brooktree based capture card(I believe this one was made by AverMedia, didn't come with docs)
Sun Camera
The Capture card and Camera came from the best surplus store known to man WeirdStuff. If you live in the Bay Area, they are a great place to visit.
Extra Bright LEDs for checking HD and Power status, in the sun.
Jumper connectors to plug cat5 cable into reset button/hddled/pwled on motherboard
I buy all my electronics parts from the coolest parts store in the world HSC
Cables:
Long RCA for camera
Long cat5, runs LED and reset button leads up to dash
Cat5 for ethernet to download video
Garmin GPS V cable, to log GPS routes on the PC
ATX extender cable, needed to put the DC PSU somewhere other than directly attached to the board
Contact:
My name is ben, my email is my first name at sld.tld of this website.
2003 Kawasaki Z1000
Beware, the following was created with vi *:)
Jump to:
Specs
Modifications
Links
How
Technical
Pictures of the bike
Pictures of the computer installation
Videos
Contact
Specs:
Displaceme
Fuel capacity 18 litres (4.0 gallons)
Dry weight 198 kg (437 pounds)
Horsepower 116@rear wheel.
Modifications:
The How and Technical section include information about the biggest modification I've done. Heres the small stuff:
* Bosch compressed air horns:
* PIAA Fog Lights:
* CRG LS bar end mirrors:
* Renthal bars, I also had them anodized to match the forks, and stock bars. PK Selective did the anodizing. They did a great job, I love them.
* Corbin seat:
* A fender eliminator, I can't remember what brand, but it doesn't matter because you don't want it. It didn't fit very well, and uses zipties.
* KisanTech H4 headlight modulator, they call it a 'pathBlazer'. No pic, its a blinking light for pete's sake.
* Sprocket Specialists 42 tooth rear sprocket, no pics.
I no longer ride on the Bridgestones that came with the bike, I tore them up in about 3000 mi. I ride on D208 race pull offs now, *duck*.
I also use synthetic oil(Silkolene)
As of 6/22 the bike has 14,800 mi on it, and is 7 months old.
Links:
Official Kawasaki Z1000 page
Page dedicated to parts/pics of Z1000s
Cool Motorcycle forum Onyerbike Z1000 page
How:
So, why did I create a whole webpage about my motorcycle?
It runs UNIX!
I removed the charcoal can, and cut out most of the plastic casing to install a Shuttle SV24 Flex-ATX motherboard in the tail section. I cut off the rest of the case except for the bare minimum required to bolt in a PCI card on the riser, and all 4 motherboard mounting screws.
I've upgraded the CPU to a P3 Coppermine 1Ghz and added 256MB of RAM. Beneath the 'case', or whats left of it anyway is a 40GB Seagate hard drive.
To make it work with the bike I had to buy a 'PW-200' DC-DC PSU from http://www.mini-box.com/.
I also picked up an ITPS from them as well, it handles voltage regulation and startup/shutdown of the PC.
I bought these as a combined unit on eBay from a seller named 'audioforge'. Shipping was very fast, and he was very nice to deal with. I'd recomend him to anyone.
He said he hopes to have a website up soon.
You can see the ITPS in this picture. It's the small board mounted beneath the case.
The PW-200 can be seen here. It's the small board the ATX connector plugs in to.
If you are wondering what the big red can is, it drives these.
Technical:
Wait you said it ran UNIX, what exactly did you mean?!
The PC itself runs FreeBSD 5.2.1, the best operating system in the world, let the flames begin.
Custom modifications made to it:
kldload bktr, this loads the Brooktree driver that the PCI capture card uses
streamer -o mjpeg.avi -f mjpeg -i Television -t 3:00:00, this program is part of XawTV and is what records the video off the camera/capture card to disk
More info on the Brooktree driver which comes installed by default.
Parts:
Shuttle SV24 Flex-ATX motherboard
256MB RAM
1Ghz P3 Coppermine CPU
PW-200 DC PSU
ITPS voltage regulator/ignition integrator
40GB HD
ATX extender cable
Brooktree based capture card(I believe this one was made by AverMedia, didn't come with docs)
Sun Camera
The Capture card and Camera came from the best surplus store known to man WeirdStuff. If you live in the Bay Area, they are a great place to visit.
Extra Bright LEDs for checking HD and Power status, in the sun.
Jumper connectors to plug cat5 cable into reset button/hddled/pwled on motherboard
I buy all my electronics parts from the coolest parts store in the world HSC
Cables:
Long RCA for camera
Long cat5, runs LED and reset button leads up to dash
Cat5 for ethernet to download video
Garmin GPS V cable, to log GPS routes on the PC
ATX extender cable, needed to put the DC PSU somewhere other than directly attached to the board
Contact:
My name is ben, my email is my first name at sld.tld of this website.
