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Solid progress man! Looking really, really good, like any moment now you'll be able to hop on it and twist!

Speedo? Use the aviator's VFR system! haha. If the traffic is in front of you, then you're going too slow. If the traffic is beside you, you're doing the speed for the street. If the traffic is behind you, then you're doing the speed for the bike. Just kidding. I dunno how to solve this one as you have the different front wheel, but so many ppl here have swapped in other front ends, there must be someone that's got the solution.
Good luck and keep it up. Totally feeling this build.

The last time I had a working speedo was over 20 years ago. I don't need it much in the city... you really have no time to look down. I would look into some of the digital ones people here have used. They look really nice, and you mount a sensor where you want, so you can hide it. They will also have include an electronic tach that senses from the coils.

Lol the aviator's VFR system, I love it. Yeah I live in Flordia so I would like to have a speedo because you will get pulled over so easily here.i can't wait to take this machine to dime city in Tampa and also to Daytona for bike week.

Next week my tank and gender will be painted so I will post some pics.

Yeah loud I'm gonna try to look up something on the digital side of the speedo. I know for sure its not gonna be cheap.

I'm loving this front end

I have a 82 KZ550 LTD as well. I'm glad I found this thread because I'm doing a cafe conversion on it as well. I don't have anyone I know that can do fabrication like you do. My question is, are you using the 16in wheel in the rear and how did you fit the gsxr front end on the bike?

If you toggle "insert" when adding photos they show up full size.

alexromega wrote: Lol the aviator's VFR system, I love it. Yeah I live in Flordia so I would like to have a speedo because you will get pulled over so easily here.i can't wait to take this machine to dime city in Tampa and also to Daytona for bike week.

Next week my tank and gender will be painted so I will post some pics.

Yeah loud I'm gonna try to look up something on the digital side of the speedo. I know for sure its not gonna be cheap.

A fellow Floridian! Love the build so far!

Linked below are the Speedo and Tach I'm going to be putting on my build. My girlfriend is also purchasing these for the naked conversion she's doing on a 94 XJ650.

They look good and aren't too expensive.

www.dimecitycycles.com/2-5-inch-black-mi...ndicator-lights.html
cognitomoto.com/collections/gauges/produ...er-w-clamp-1-4-ratio

Got my new paint job done and it's looking god

Yep trying to post these pics and it's not wanting to work for me

Sorry I haven't been on in a while. Yeah it's the stock 16 in the back I just put a smaller fit tire to make the frame level with the gsxr front end on it. I have the mag 17 inch stock gsxr wheel on the front. I got my conversion stem from cognito moto and pressed it in. I'm gonna put spoked wheels on the bike down the road, for this I will buy the kz650 rear spoked wheel that will swap easy. I will buy the spoke hub from cognito Moto. In time. Also when I wielded the new rear on the frame it made it sit lower and that helped with leveling out with the gsxr front

Anyone know of a better petcock to use on the stock kz550 tank?

This is pretty much exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for this thread. I'm doing a cafe build with the same bike and I'm pretty much using this as a reference. I hope you're prepared for a bunch of questions to be thrown your way.