Well mate! i have a Gs1100e swing arm on a Z1000 A1 but there is a GSxr rear wheel on there and i spaced  the swingarm over to the exhaust side (right) by a few mm and the spaced the wheel back to the chain side to achieve the wheel center giving me equal distancing on the shocks which is around 8mm either side (8mm spacers on the inside of the shocks), if i can help with photos just let me know.

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It might be that way to clear the chain and sprocket.  I know the stock swingarm on my GPZ1100 was not even left to right, there was more room for clearance on the left than right.

Yes, that's what I'm assuming , Hoping someone that's done this conversion, can chime in so I know for sure, I've moved my top shock mounts and I have to trim the newly made shock mounting posts  to suit, I made them both the same length, once inserted in the frame and checked with the shocks in place I discovered the left side was correct but the right side needed to be trimmed to make the shocks sit straight, Just wanted confirmation before I trim the right mount to suit...
Thanks for your reply..

It might be that way to clear the chain and sprocket.  I know the stock swingarm on my GPZ1100 was not even left to right, there was more room for clearance on the left than right.

Does anyone know if the Katana alloy swingarm has offset shock mounts ?  I have the swingarm mounted correctly in the frame, and with shocks mounted to the swingarm, the sprocket/left hand side shock sits out around 10-12mm wider then the right side shock, is this normal ?   Its mounted in my 1982 GPZ750 frame. I won't be able to get back to the bike for a week so I thought I would ask here before measuring everything accurately, I ran out of time yesterday...
Thanks.

Well.. we are alive boys. Everything works.. horn, lights.. brake lights.. everything. One of the brown with white spot wires needed to be filpped to the other side. A year ago when I was in a hurry to order all the cables... tach, clutch throttle..etc. I mistakingly ordered a longer clutch and tach... of course!  The new shorter ones will be here thursday. So trying to let clutch cable in and out was a pain in the balls as it was just too long and effected the clutch switch and I really dont have the patience to play with it. Boy.. do I miss my buddy Jeff. He was in my backyard and I would sit in his office and order parts for all my builds .. He knew exactly what I needed. You would think I would remember after all these years.(shorter cables).. Old age is kicking in.. LOL. I currently have the clutch switch out as I get all the bodywork back from the paint shop. ..end of next week,, including matching clutch and brake handles...I will install the new clutch cable with what I have cause I need to hear this baby run. We never got into that on this post ... As you know electrical is not my thing... But everything else is.. Engine is stock 1000 and completely gone through... cases split and all new everything. GS1100E swingarm..Mikuni 34 flatslides .all new electrical, Dyna 2000 ,gauges, controls I powder coated the frame and battery box, triple trees and swingarm and yes I did have Dennis Murray make me one X pipe... long story about that... (kind of surprised I did not get asked about it from the pictures I posted)..But I cannot thank you guys enough for the help on the electrical... means the world to me as I try to get this one finished. While I wait for parts I was messing with my other bike. Looks like I have to order a new oddysey battery. The last one I got from FBG and I need a new one( i take care of my batterys.. winter time inside on a trickle.. etc and this one lasted six years).. But dam have they gone up in price.. Pictures soon... Thanks again, Joe

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Larriken something you may want to bear in mind when setting your chain tension - a friend had a GSXR /Bandit motor in a Harris Magnum that was made for a KZ motor, because of the increased distance from the gearbox sprocket to the swinging arm pivot he had to run the chain a little looser than normal to avoid breaking it !

Fellas, there is more than 1 way to skin a cat! One of my mentors designed and built stationary chain tensioners.... when needed the tensioner would take up the slack. When not needed the chain came up off the tensioner. See below pic right behind countershaft sprocket.

 

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Larriken something you may want to bear in mind when setting your chain tension - a friend had a GSXR /Bandit motor in a Harris Magnum that was made for a KZ motor, because of the increased distance from the gearbox sprocket to the swinging arm pivot he had to run the chain a little looser than normal to avoid breaking it !

Good call. I had been pondering that. The distance from the front to rear sprocket is the same as my 98 Bandit 1200 but the GPZ has an extra 30mm from swingarm pivot to front sprocket. I guess if you hit a massive bump and compress the suspension you would tighten the chain. There is a lot of clearance under the swingarm but I would hate to find out the hard way! Will back it off once I get the beastie going and see how it all goes.