As I said, I took off my old swing arm and rough fitted the new one while I was changing the tire. IT FITS. :woohoo: I will have to move back the shock mounts of course, fit a new brake stay and relieve the area where the brake arm is. I pulled it out a bit, 1/2" or so and it misses the arm. As I see it, I could put on a longer bushing or cut the arm and have a plate welded in. The pivot bolt is shot and I have my eye on another one. Might not need it if I have the bushings made. I'm open to suggestions.
Steve

Got my new Gazi shocks today (Sport Lite SL600300 as advised on their fiitment page). They look pretty sweet, truly working with the look I'm going for.

They came with 3 sets of brass bushings of the same OD such that it spins freely inside the Gazi eyes and sizes S M and L thickness so decreasing ID to slip onto the pins on the swing arm (bottom) and frame (top). Shocks have eyes on both ends if thats not already obvious. Pretty sure the stock shocks didnt have any bushing between the shock eye hole and the pin they mounted to when I took them apart.

So my question (which as usual is dumb) is; Do I want to use the thickest bushing that I can push on in order to snug shit up or the thinnest to keep things loosey goosey or go Goldilocks?

Since I havent seen anyone here who has experience with Gazi shocks I promise me (or my widow) will post something in the spring telling you how they work.

Got my new Shinko tire mounted and balanced. 120/90-18 Shinko, 1 1/4 OZ weights. Cleaning and lubing the brake cam among other things. Taking my time. Noticed a little play in the swing arm. While I'm at it I'm going to size up the swing arm I cut. I'll post those results in my swing arm thread.
Steve


I think I got my moneys worth. :whistle:


Held pressure for 20 minutes.


I'm going to weld me up a new stand. This one is 30 years old.

So I took a few years off and now I'm finally getting back to this project. I started putting 03 gsxr forks and swingarm on this bike but I wanted more, so I looked around for a wrecked bike and 2 says ago I picked up an 06 gsxr 750 for 600$. I tore it apart and kept what I needed. Everything is mocked up at the moment but things are looking pretty good.

Its a ROLLER.
Also got the body work in sealer.
I ended up counter sinking some 3mm allen screws for the chain slider. I sunk them below the plastic height so hopefully they'll be protected a little bit. The more i thought about it and it seemed like rivets would be easily ground down because the sit above the surface.

Much to my chagrin the new wheel is 3 lbs heavier than the stock wheel and tire - which was bald enough that the new wheel probably is more like only 2 lbs heavier than the stock. Its a push on overall weight though because the swing arm made up the difference. The geometry is a little more aggressive than i would like as well.I didn't account for how much height the mount on the swingarm would add to the "shock to axle" length. With both these things happening it seems like the perfect excuse to swap for something like a aluminim 17" rim with a 130/70/17 tire and a stainless spoke kit. :whistle:

I pulled the dual disk setup off my roached KZ650 that some asshole torched a couple months ago. The fire burnt the MC but everything else was untouched. Its funny, This dual setup was on my first KZ1000, that i then put on my second KZ1000, then on my kz650, and now its going on this bike. At least a little bit of a phoenix will rise from those ashes.

I never seem to have any free time to work on the bikes these days. I did make a little progress this week and started assembling everything. The motor is in the frame, the new motor mount bolts are super snug and made getting the engine in there a challenge. I still need to make the mount plates.

I put new bearings in the swingarm, added a grease fitting, and I started the chain slider. After a couple failed attempts I got a sheet of Delrin to melt over a piece of the tube I capped the swingarm with. It ended up being a bit thinner than i would have liked but it turned out pretty nice. I need to mount it to the arm next. Should I rivet it or drill and tap for some counter sunk screws?

750Kruzer wrote: When people join the forum simply to ask how to chop-up an otherwise perfectly good (stock) bike to make it a bobber and flip it (sell it)

That's prolly the top of the list for "things that grind my gears"

I agree on the whole practice that's so common currently of bobbing, chopping cafe racing and building a Brat bike, whatever they are, that seems to be the current trend. Where the big KZ's are concerned you really can't improve on the "beauty" the factory created and I certainly understand the idea even less of removing rear suspension etc. to make the things more archaic and less functional and destroy the handling they had. I do admire the builds, if you start with a pretty ratty bike, with upside down forks, different swing arms, brakes and suspension that improve the bike in line with what it was designed to be.

It drives me even more mad on the classic Triumphs, I'm sorry but IMO there is no way to improve on the styling of the original bike here, so your chopper etc. is worthless, other than for its original parts, it isn't worth lots more than an original bike like you have it advertised for.

Just showing off the photos to friend number one....

Awesome !!

I put 17" wire wheels and radial tires on my '73 Z1-900. Love the handling improvement this change made along with Race Tech cartridge emulators/Race Tech springs, GS1100E swingarm, and Performance Works rear shocks. But I braced the frame and used an oversize and a stronger engine bolt kit as well to go along with the above mods.

The bike certainly sits lower but I expected this. Using the centerstand can be a challenge now however.

Thanks DoctoRot for the input. I have been wondering about the 17' on both ends, largely I knew i'd want to get more out of the cornering performance so I'm game for looking into anything that will get me that while lowering the weight of the bike overall. I have the option through Cognito moto to run a fully GSX-R converted front hub with a newly laced wheel between 17 and 19 inches. I guess I was going the direction of standardizing to the size of the donor fork rather than standardizing the new technology to closer-to-stock dimensions I.e. 18 or 19" wheels for the ground clearance. Also I will definitely be changing the rear suspension, just hoping to not re-do the swing arm in entirety so I'm looking at between 13.5" rear from progressive, to a 14.30" from fox to a full 15" from burly. Also, thanks for the frame bracing suggestions, I'll start digging on finding that!