Dam ! That's one nice build, BIKE OF THE MONTH ?????

sled wrote:

tk11b40 wrote: Ten plus years, thousands of hours, and thousands of dollars.

This is awesome great work!

Can you tell the length of those front forks centre of axle to top of shock un sprung

I'll say it again damn that's nice

On page 11 of this thread you will find the image above. The length if you had them laying on the bench would be a little longer. These are Gsxr 1100 forks, the last year of conventional forks. I think they are 1989 or 90. The cool thing is that you will find the same forks on the newer Bandit, so parts are easy and plentiful.

Thanks so much for the compliments.

Love at first sight! I'm trying to not drool,but man is it hard! Well done!

tk11b40 wrote: Ten plus years, thousands of hours, and thousands of dollars.

This is awesome great work!

Can you tell the length of those front forks centre of axle to top of shock un sprung

I'll say it again damn that's nice

Got back to the bike again today and had a list of things to get done. Only got about half way through the list but made some progress at least. Sandblasted a whole a lot of bits that needed painting. Mostly just odds n sods. Put new bearings in the rear swingarm and fitted that up which was cool. Very satisfying getting stuff like this finished.

Before buying it I would take the bike to a dyno and see the numbers for myself. Frankly, 94hp at the rear wheel seems mighty high for an engine that came from the factory with 55hp at the crank (see link). Getting that much power from it would take a heck of a lot more than just bumping up the compression ration by milling the head. It is physically impossible to get 94hp from that engine simply by increasing the compression ratio. Even pushing the compression ratio from the stock 8.5:1 to a whooping 12.0:1 would only bump up the crankshaft HP to 60 (see second link). His HP claim and dyno sheet sound very bogus to me, so I would have to put it on a dyno myself to see the facts. Ed

www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/model/kawasaki/kawasaki_75T%2076.htm

www.bgsoflex.com/crchange.html

Drooz wrote: Let the games begin:

Drooz,
I don't want to side track your Track Bike thread.
Could you email me (gwailo7@gmail.com) how and what suspension you used on your H2?
I want to update my bike from this

to this.

I'm having a hard time finding a swingarm that will fit besides the FZR 400 and 600. Yours looks like GSXR suspension?
Any help would be great!!!!
Thanks
Kenny

If you go wiith the mono shock youre going to need to weld in a good substantial top mount,possibly with some bracing. This in turn knocks your battery box and electrics out of place ,which leads to,relocating them (where?) and rewiring your loom to the new location.All of which is doable and many people have done it very well but it is a lot more work. On the other hand,if you go with the twin shock set up,you just need a couple of mounts welded on the swingarm. Like you say,the difference in handling is probably neither here nor there on such a bike but a lot of people prefer the one look or the other.
I went with the twin shocks as I like the look and It was the easier way to go.

On another subject,you seem to be starting a new thread with every question on your build. Why not just have one thread ( I hope thats the right terminology) that follows your whole build. Its easier for others to follow and nice to see the gradual progress.Also,other people that like what youre doing can scroll back and see how you did certain things. Just a thought.
Good luck

P.S. Did you get the swingarm sorted yet?

I appreciate the help. I have this. It told me to plan on replacing the needle bearings in my swing arm if I wanted to change my rear sprocket and I lost faith at removing the swing arm instead of using a chain breaker. It's been useful for exploded diagrams and that's it. I'm not a complete idiot, but close. Maybe I'm just not getting something about the layout of the book? I've swapped car engines, I work on machines professionally, but I can't make sense of a lot of this. Where do you honestly recommend I start?


Update: I read the section on valve shimming. I'm lost. Sorry guys. I have gauges, dial indicators, calipers, etc. But this doesn't make sense to me.

Steve,

Here is a different angle of the bike, not as stubby. I also think the fact that I set the tail section back a little further than what the "stock" KZ" tail might call for, adds to the stubby look. Hoping new swing arm might set the rear wheel back a couple of inches and balance things out better.
Someone PLEASE shut down my Ebay account, way to easy to shop and spend $$$.
Just bought a POLISHED! OEM 03-04 ZX6RR ZX6R ZX 6R 636 REAR SWINGARM and 03 04 KAWASAKI NINJA ZX6R ZX6 636 REAR WHEEL..

I will change out the swing arm and rear wheel this fall, after riding weather goes south in Cali.