Hi all, along with my many Supra I have many MORE bikes. Mostly 60's-90's metric cruisers, but recently my father and I have been working on this 1993 Suzuki GSX-R 750. We got the bike for free with a blown engine, the previous owner had no mechanical skills and after a failed attempt to replace a blown clutch and a 15-16k rpm burnout he blew it up. Since we didn't have any 750 GSX-R engines laying around we decided to put our good 1990 Katana 600 engine on the 750 frame. Yea, it seems like backwards thinking, usually you "upgrade" to a larger engine but the 600 was on a steel frame, the 750 frame is all aluminum so right off the bat we are lighter, and most of the parts so far were free or a couple of bucks. As of now we have less than $100 in the whole bike. But we do have many hours in the frame and engine polish, and its still not done.
I'd figured I would share at least one of my other projects, and since this is the prettiest I figured it would be the best. So far we have test fitted everything and just need to fab up four triangular brackets and a few shims to align the trans with the rear sprocket and it should be good to go. The wiring is very similar and should work out quite well. There is very little we are not touching on this bike. The front we converted from a dual light with a full fairing to a single light with no fairing. The engine is being cleaned up and some parts polished to POP without the side fairings on. The rear fairings will remain with the factory tail light. Its all starting to come together now, and its getting exciting to see it.
Today's moch up of the rear fairings, seat, and tank:
Headlight assembly, still need to mount the turn signals:
Tail light moch up:
We fabbed up this "bridge" to connect the two rear fairings:
Gauge cluster:
Can anyone say 13K of pure fury?
This is the 600 engine, photo is rotated for clarity:
Some random polished oogally eye photos:
Thanks for looking!
I'd figured I would share at least one of my other projects, and since this is the prettiest I figured it would be the best. So far we have test fitted everything and just need to fab up four triangular brackets and a few shims to align the trans with the rear sprocket and it should be good to go. The wiring is very similar and should work out quite well. There is very little we are not touching on this bike. The front we converted from a dual light with a full fairing to a single light with no fairing. The engine is being cleaned up and some parts polished to POP without the side fairings on. The rear fairings will remain with the factory tail light. Its all starting to come together now, and its getting exciting to see it.
Today's moch up of the rear fairings, seat, and tank:
Headlight assembly, still need to mount the turn signals:
Tail light moch up:
We fabbed up this "bridge" to connect the two rear fairings:
Gauge cluster:
Can anyone say 13K of pure fury?
This is the 600 engine, photo is rotated for clarity:
Some random polished oogally eye photos:
Thanks for looking!
