2018 KAWASAKI Z900RS PROJECT
PROJECT
P80
III Yoshimura fender eliminator
The good guys and girls at Yoshimura USA sent us a
lovely fender eliminator for $169 to clean up the Z's
back-end, doing away with some high-up weight as
well as slimming the rear of the bike down.
This was the trickiest thing to fit during the day,
as we reused the standard indicators and needed to
cut the wiring to use the number-plate light.
The Yosh fender
eliminator looks the
business—slim and
minimal—compared
to the stock unit.
III Akrapovic muffler
This is the easiest swap of the whole build.
Simply take the 10mm bolt and 12mm nut off
the mounting bracket, slide the standard muf-
fler off, and do the reverse when fitting the
Akrapovic unit.
The $822 Akro is a lightweight
titanium unit with a slightly deeper
sound, although I wouldn't say it's
any louder than the standard ex-
haust and it hasn't really made the
bike any faster (Akrapovic claims
a 0.9 horsepower gain at 8200
rpm from the muffler). It might be
The new
Akrapovic
titanium
muffler looks
better in the
metal than
in photos.
Sounds
better, too.
Yoshimura supplies an electrical connector to
link up the light and bike wiring, but it's not great
quality and we busted our first connector and
thus didn't use the second one. The easiest and
most foolproof way of connecting the four wires
is to solder them together and use heat-shrink
wrapping to insulate them.
Lining the bracket up to fit can be a pain as well,
as you need to have four separate plate pieces in
the right spots to get the eliminator screwed to the
bike. Once that's done. However, it's all a piece of
cake and the results speak for themselves.
You can check out the Yoshimura fender
eliminator right here.
