hi all, first post so i'll probably get it wrong, question on my engine, the number appears to be zx90008894 but kawasaki say there is no such number as it doesn't have a letter in it, so does anyone know if the d's on the casing look identical to a zero and if so will Mr sva man accept that?

Welcome to the forum alas cant help you re engine number

Just looking at Haynes manual, engine no should be like zx900be000001/zx900ce000001. Mine is the zx900ce the easist way to check is, how many coil packs (ht coils)have you got? if 2 you have zx900 b1 to b4 if you have 4 you have either zx900c1/c2 or zx900e1

isnt D a continental engine?

whoa! it's all getting a bit technical here, thanks for the comments but a bike engine is new to me, give me a performance mini and i know what i'm doing. the ht leads on the engine appear to be connected to a transistor type box' what do these coils look like and where are they? sorry to be so dense i knew i should have read my own strap line, just looked in the book and going by the ic ignitor unit i have either a c or e engine doesn't help me with the number but at least i know i'll have to sort out the emissions for sva

[Edited on 23/12/06 by rpm]

On a bike engine the coils are the bits the HT leads are attached to; they are triggered by The Brain, and remove the need for a dizzy type device. It's not uncommon for them to run wasted spark systems too, so 2 plugs spark at once (one when it's supposed to, one when it's 360º out). I'm from the same background as you from the sounds of it (A Series), and jut think of a bike engine as a 16V mini engine. They're not that different, just as most petrol engines are similar. Some bikes have 2 coils (as mine does), some just 1, I think these tend to be the FI engines, but may well be wrong on this bit.

thanks for that, i'm sure i've got a c or e engine now , don't know whats happened with the number but hey! it's all a bit of a learning curve as they say

If it's a C or E the coils are the plug caps. They don't have HT leads like the type used on standard coils.

yep, it's definitely one of those, thanks all merry christmas