273:. The engine was based on the Kawasaki Ninja 900s, with two fewer cylinders. The Kawasaki 900 had a 908 cc engine. Removing two cylinders from the 4-cylinder divided the number of cc's by two. (908/2 = 454, thus the name). Included was the liquid cooling, the bore and stroke, the double overhead camshafts, and four valves per cylinder, although the cam chain was relocated from the left side of the engine to the middle, running between the two cylinders. The design basis for the engine bottom end was also totally different, with fundamental differences easily observed from the outside in the water pump, charging system and starter motor solutions. Nevertheless, the engine top end design of the Ninja gave the LTD a great deal of power for its size, redlining at 10,000 RPM while delivering 50 horsepower. The Kawasaki 454 is well known for its acceleration, having raced against a 454 LS big block Chevrolet Corvette and beating it to both 0-60 and the quarter mile by more than a second.
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Kawasaki 454 was discontinued in favor of the Kawasaki Vulcan 500 in 1990, with no increase in horsepower despite the larger engine size. The Vulcan 500 was designed very similarly to the 454, with the basis again being from a Ninja counterpart, but the engine was taken straight from the 500
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296:"Two 7,000 mile tours- Honda's Tough 450 Nighthawk, Kawasaki's Stylish 454 LTD; Surprising Success Story: 7,200 Miles On Kawasaki's Big-Hearted 454!." Road Rider, September, 1985, 19-22.
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