Heads vs piston kit vs stock??

This is the swingarm comparison

Ummm. What the funk is that? I don't know where these pics cam from?!?!? I don't even have pics of jets on my computer and I don't know where the pic of that other bike came from.

That sounds good. I think that I contacted him when I first bought the bike about redoing my motor and then I got this weird idea that if I bought enough tools I would be able to do it myself.....

do it yo self u will be happy, other than machine work do it you can(said like yoda)

31goodtymes31 wrote:

That sounds good. I think that I contacted him when I first bought the bike about redoing my motor and then I got this weird idea that if I bought enough tools I would be able to do it myself.....

If you have mechanical skills & patience, you can do all but the specialized work yourself. Those motors are not complicated by any sense of the word.

You need a specialist for the head work, cylinder boring & crankshaft work. The rest you can handle with relatively simple / common tools and a service manual.

Man, I would be careful...Sounds like you are going down the same road I did. It was a Very long road, and a Very expensive one. I have the same bike you have and started with piston/cam kit...then $1100 in head work, then carbs, then ignition,then the drop in cams(that are Not drop in), split cases cause your not going to put new top end with an old chain are you...? Now should you weld the crank...it's out right?? all new rubber idlers, misc spacers in motor, oh yeah how could I forget degree cams...my favorite. After all this, 15 laps down the 1/4 mile it was only worth .9 Second, and yeah I flung a shim off the bucket on 15...guess I should of bought the shim under buckets...more problems and expensive ones...is it worth it? I have over $6000 in receipts that I can find, and it's not fixed from the last disaster...I think they run pretty good stock...Just my opinion(&wallet).

Haha. We'll as much as I want to do it all myself there are things that I cannot do (even with the help of my Clymer manual) and I would rather get someone that has the experience to do the work as oppose to me trying to do it and ruining what I have.

That's kinda what I'm starting to think too. The bike was no slouch it did have go. I wanted to turn this into a cool looking cafe racer and somewhere down the road I got this idea in my head that I had to completely redo the motor. I am starting to worry about whether or not this is going to be worth it. I'm thinking this now but when it's all said and done and on the road I'm sure it will be another story....

Hopefully this one works out. Here is the swingarms by comparison

wheelies shouldnt be an issue anyway! :woohoo:

31goodtymes31 wrote:

Hopefully this one works out. Here is the swingarms by comparison

Man, that's one long 4" over arm. Are those wheelie bar brackets I see there?

31goodtymes31 wrote:

That's kinda what I'm starting to think too. The bike was no slouch it did have go. I wanted to turn this into a cool looking cafe racer and somewhere down the road I got this idea in my head that I had to completely redo the motor. I am starting to worry about whether or not this is going to be worth it. I'm thinking this now but when it's all said and done and on the road I'm sure it will be another story....

1075 piston kit
Web 118 cams
Street Port Cut
28mm stock or 29 mm smoothbores
Pipe of your preference

Fun, Fast enough, reliable. Major improvement in power over stock motor with all the reliability of the stock motor.

That's pretty much what they did to the 83 GPz1100 when they rolled it off the assembly line, motorwise.