Not a full-on factory race motor. The TZ 350s Yamaha raced were much more highly tuned. To Yamaha's credit, they did sell TZs to the public, but still not as refined as the factory racers.

No not at all. I owned one.

Mine too. I hope you and your family are doing well. Judas Priest's new album is pretty damn good, but I like the older Priest albums much better. I think they need to retire, when they can still go out on top.

@@sonnyseabury4051 My thoughts exactly

Original Kawasaki h2 is better… well not better but scarier I geuss it’s all in the rider

I owned a 75 RD,, one of the best bikes of all time indeed.

I currently own a '76 RD400 and I agree that I liked my 350 that I had when I was in H.S. a lot better. I had my 350 in 1980 as well and my backyard was Mulholland Dr. so in the summer my friends and spent nights racing up and down the canyons probably pissing off a lot of people who could hear us for miles and miles, lol. We preferred night time because of less cagers and you could see headlight beams around blind corners so you knew when you could use the whole road. All that night riding paid off when I did a 24 W.E.R.A. race at Willow in '87 as I was 5 seconds a lap faster than my 4 team mates so I got to do a double stint back to back. Of course it was basically a race prepped bike with clip-ons, rear sets and a solo seat. Only a tach and no speedo or signals. I lifted the front wheel on the pipe in the 1st 3 gears and I smoked Honda 750-4 stop light to stop light all the time. The first Honda 750 to beat me was a VFR 750 Interceptor. That V-4 was a shocker to me, lol.

This last Thursday, I picked up a "basket case" 77 RD400-D.the guy I got it from, said that the guy he bought it from, took every thing off of the frame, and had it powder coated. I think I've had 5 or 6 of them. Had a Daytona Special, that I put an RZ350 motor in it. It was STUPID fast! steve

That's because this was the platform they used as a template for the Banshee engine. Only difference is that this is air cooled. Split the cases and they're pretty much the same aside from gearing ratio.

@@jeredalmeida1880 that's awesome thanks for the info.

That eagine layout/architecture has been around since 1967.

I bought 1 new with Toomy kit.

I bought a yellow and black Kenny Roberts RZ 350 from Ken over a year ago. She's gorgeous and runs like a raped ape! It was a 1985 model....the last year they made them..Gotta love those old school Yamaha vintage block graphics on it.

We've done one already search the channel Kaplan h2750

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What you talkin' bout? The Autolube system worked great. At idle they would typically go down to about 500 to 1 mixture to and as much as 20 to 1 a high throttle. You can't do that by pre-mixing yourself.

They handled much better than the Kawasaki triples and Suzuki twins of the day. I used to ride them, they were okay in the curves. You must be thinking of the Kawasaki triples.

@@markr.1984 you are correct, I am thinking of the Kawasaki Triples!