Swing swap, finally a ZRX swing

Santa came early this year :woohoo:

Got the new swing and rear wheel easterday. Since Xmas is so close I decided it was best not to spend too much time in the carage and I enjoyed vacuuming and mopping the floors all evening like a good, loving husband that I am So just a rough mock-up and it is really close to fitting without any big mods. It´s gonna look real mean. It´s 50mm shorter than the GSXR swing that was there and it´ll also ride a bit higher now. Can´t wait to start working on it

How do you attach more that 1 pic per message?

Darnation:laugh:
This is th old one from a GSXR ´90 going to a friend of mineB)

Gonna be awfully tight with the exhaust. Looks like it´ll work witout modding...

ewwwwwwww.... Yummy!

Plans for the swing arm?
Painting, powder coating, buffing out etc...

OMR

Well, definately have to do something since PO has started buffing but seem to have ran out of elbow grease after the left side :laugh:

I think I´m going to semi-gloss alu finish. Not too shiny cause it´s not the style I want. Wanna go more to green/black -sceme. Well, time will tellB)

Looking good. Did you relocate the lower clevices that the shocks mount to ?

Nope, at least not yet. I´ll have to check first how high it sits. I like it to be higher than earlier as long as there are no issues in handling. And even then I´ll try a steering damper first.

Last night I checked closer how it fits and it seems that all I have to do is shave 1mm off the right side axle collar and 1,5 mm of the swing.

How wide is the pivot bolt area? Would it fit a 650 without a lot of material removal? Also, how much longer is it? I am interested to see what else I can do to my bike now. Looks good.

I hear of members 'trimming' the swingarms to fit. Do you take them to a machine shop? Grind at them with a ginder?

How does one accomplish this?

supercharged wrote:

I hear of members 'trimming' the swingarms to fit. Do you take them to a machine shop? Grind at them with a ginder?

How does one accomplish this?

I did a dirtbike swingarm with a file and a lathe for the bushings. Depends on how the bearings and bushings are setup. Mill for accuracy and grinder if accuracy isn't needed.

Kawiconvert: ZRX swing is 235mm (I´ll recheck this since I don´t have my notes here) wide at pivot.

Supercharged: I´m going to shave the swing my self with a file and sandpaper as there´s no need to have absolute exact cut. But the axle collar must be done on a lathe as it´s the last part of the axle assy that is tightened betweet frame.

Also there´s the huge diff in pivot axles. Original is 16mm and ZRX is 20mm. Using the ZRX axle would mean bid modding on frame which I definately don´t want to do. Therefore I`m planning on having an extra sleeve made between original axle (outer diam 15,8mm) and ZREX axle sleeve (inner diam. 20mm). This time I want to make the swap "by the book" i.e have all original bearings and assembly from a ZRX fitted to ELR stock axle. This way I can be absolutely shure it works and can take some beating.