Kawasaki G5/KE100 experts needed

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Edited Date/Time 1/27/2012 7:53am
Restoring a bike for the girlfriend. Its a 72 Kawasaki G5 that is hard to find parts for-mainly a piston. The circlip came out and cracked the cylinder sleeve (thin). I have a newer KE100 cylinder but the exhaust port is about .25 inch higher and the overall height of the cylinder is .25 inch taller. Will bolt right on.

Does anyone know if the rod length between these bikes is different and interchangeable? Is it just the location of the wristpin in the pistons between the older G5's and newer KE100's?

Thanks for any help! Anyone have a junker they want to get rid of?
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project racer 6/22/2006 10:08pm
6/22/2006 10:08pm Edited Date/Time 6/22/2006 10:20pm
The 71-74 G-5 and the 75-81 KE 100 share the same engine. Hang a G-5 piston one one side of the piston pin, and the KE piston on the other side of the pin ,and compare the piston height between the two.
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pilotx253 6/22/2006 10:19pm
6/22/2006 10:19pm Edited Date/Time 4/16/2016 5:59pm
Thats what I thought...but I was wrong. I called Wiseco for some piston dimensions, which are quite different from mine. '72 and 73 models had a smaller wrist pin diameter and different location. :roll:
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ThePipe 6/23/2006 8:52am
6/23/2006 8:52am Edited Date/Time 4/16/2016 5:59pm
Hey Josh
Try that crazy Kenny dude just North of us in Minoqua
http://www.cyclexchange.net/
His site makes him look like a chopper dude but he is into everything.

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