1978 GS1000 - Restomod

[mattfeet]

About to head to paint with the scheme as shown below. Cannot wait.

 

[nvr2old]

I like your paint scheme. The only thing I might change would be putting the side cover letters above in the white like a GS1000S. They would have a white background and maybe match the tank letters a little better.

 

[mattfeet]

Well well well...look what we have here!

After my painter backed out on me, I had to find another local resource that wouldn't break the bank. Fortunately, a friend of mine recommended another body shop with fair prices so I bit the bullet and showed them my mock up as posted above. He was able to fit me in between projects and I finally was able to pick everything back up today. Total paint job was <$500 including a tip.

Colors:
- Honda Mountain Air (non-metallic)
- MINI Cream white

Mock up:

Here's my parts! Im really pleased with the paint job. I would have done a few very minor items differently but overall Im happy.

Installed:

Ill try to get some better pictures soon. Just took those with my potato.

 

[nvr2old]

After seeing the final paint job, I like the colors and design. The only thing I would change is the side covers. I do like how you positioned the letters to above the stripes instead of in the blue, only now replicate the blue and the white stripes above the GS1000 letters like it is below and it would match the scheme of the tank and tail perfectly.

 

[mattfeet]

I thought about doing that but I wanted to replicate the GS1000S sidecovers to make it more "stock" looking.

 

[Weapon]

gorgeous. that color combo is fantastic

 

[Guest]

Loving it. Just caught onto this thread and I'm inspired. Did I miss something with the exhaust or did you forget to update us? I liked the other look. It had more character and brought the bike into the future a little. How does this one sound?

 

[mattfeet]

Yep, I guess I did forget to update with the MotoGPwerks exhaust. I've lusted after one for a long time and finally talked Chris into a production run a few months ago. It's loud but it sounds like a chorus of angels. Love it.

 

[hannibal]

Great looking bike!

 

[GS1150Pilot]

Gorgeous machine!

 

[mattfeet]

thank you!

 

[mattfeet]

Got some updates!

So after the paint was finished, I knew I had to get busy rebuilding my carbs if I wanted to get her dialed in before the cold weather hit. A good friend of mine is an extremely talented mechanic and came over for a few nights to oversee my rebuild. Here I will partially document that process:

Completely disassembled all of the carbs to get them ready for the carb bath. I used the bigger of the two available Ultrasonic Cleaners from Harbor Freight and a 50/50 mix of Pine Sol (original scent - it's important) and water.

Soaking in the cleaner. This cleaner agitates and heats the solution up to 8min cycles. I can fit two bodies in at a time and I ran 4 cycles (32min) and then rinsed them off in water and dried them with compressed air.

This is after 2 of the 4 cycles. Dirty on the left and clean(er) on the right.

Next up was to install the Dynojet Stage 3 jet kit which is made specifically for GS1000's with K&N pods and 4-1 open exhaust. Mixture screws at 7/8 of a turn from lightly seated.

After we reassembled everything and bench synced, out came the vacuum gauges to check how close we were.

Not bad! After some fine tuning and setting individual slides, we were able to get the idle perfectly dialed in.

I took her out for a ride yesterday and the bike ran well...sorta. I found out that I was only running on 3-cylinders. I checked the spark plugs and the #2 cylinder plug was fouled pretty bad. All the others were the nice coffee-with-cream color that I was after.

One of these is not like the others:

Swapped the plugs out with new NGK's this morning and went out for a ride and she is MUCH better. The bike pulls like a freight train and the pipe sounds brutally good (loud but good) at 1/2 throttle and up and then settles back to purr like a kitten at idle.

Thanks for looking!

 

[posplayr]

Nice job, and great tip of the HF cleaner.

 

[mattfeet]

Here is the long awaited video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnsoHjkCims&feature=player_embedded

 

[mattfeet]

Some pics as well:

 

[posplayr]

Good looking bike, and nice composition on the photos.

 

[mattfeet]

Thanks! I finally broke out my good camera for the video and those pics.

 

[Vmass]

Awesome job and great color choice. I am with nvr2old on the side cover scheme.

 

[posplayr]

Thanks! I finally broke out my good camera for the video and those pics.

Not that the first photos were that bad, but these are really nice.

 

[mattfeet]

The first ones were just from my phone. These were with my DSLR (the video was as well).