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Katana Brake Up Grade - help please

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Hi,

I have been searching for a brake upgrade solution for ages.

I have a Katana. It is was a 750 but is now 1135 and is standard other wise.

I am currently fitting wire rims:

18inch front 3.5 wide 120/70 tyre
17inch rear 5.0 wide 170/60 tyre

GS Hubs
GSXR sproket carrier to provide chain clearance
GPZ off set front sproket

So I would like to fit brakes which work... I have read quite a lot regarding this upgrade and are truly impressed with what you all have achived.

So I need the following

Kawasaki calipers, going with the later model 650R.
Honda 900RR rotors
mounting kit from Salty Monk

Can anyone see any issuies here?

The attached picture is a EX650 caliper is this OK

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Wrong Caliper. You need one from a late eighties Ninja (though I did recently find some from a 1995 Kawasaki 600).

No idea if the kit works on the Katana. You can give it a try I guess. If it doesn't work you'll probably gain enough insight to come up with your own alternative bracket etc anyway & can likely sell the set on to someone with a GS1000 for similar money....

Dan :)
 
Dan,

Thanks for your reply you are the king on brake upgrades and I'm sure this will fit after all Suzuki where not know for changing things a lot. After all a GSXR front end just bolt in. Not that I want to do this to a perfectly good bike.

Discs are 275mm and the calipers are single pot dinosaur brakes... not a lot changed from GS1000 to the Katana except styling, other wise most thing are the same.

The GS Hubs fitted perfectly without any changes.. the only thing I needed to change was the hub spacer and that is because I am using a GSXR sprocket carrier for chain clearance.

Let me know the cost of you kit to NZ, thanks for your comments on the calipers... as I thought no good.

Is $90USD each a realistic price for discs?

Most just change the front end but I don't want to do this.

A company in Japan do brake upgrade kits for katanas and I assume will ft GS also. I think you will need to be able to talk jap lingo which I can't to order.

But they manufacture after market discs at 320mm, 310mm, 300mm, 275mm

http://www.tnk-eng.com/1framepage top2.html


 
cant work out how to post oictures so this will have to do.....
 
Certainly looks very similar. The disks are sure to be the same bolt pattern. I paid US$80 per set for my CBR F3 disks, both sets. I recently found a set for Tom on Ebay that he won for around $50 +post from memory.

I will look up & see if there is a tracked service from USPS for New Zealand (non-tracked they ship at your risk, it will be cheaper though probabaly). I sent some to Paris recently, tracked, for about $30. I know it's wrong direction but it's a flat rate EU thing so maybe similar service available to NZ.

Have a look here where I measured the forks (approximately) in order to tyr to work out if they would fit an 1100.

IMGP4585D.jpg


http://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y247/salty_monk/Suzuki/?action=view&current=IMGP4585D.jpg

You can zoom in if you go to the link if you can't read the measurements.

Dan :)
 
$90 each is pretty steep. You can get brand new EBC rotors for not much more than that. I picked up a set of PFM ductile iron rotors for my bike for $150 on Ebay.
 
Dan all the measurements are the same which is good.

So can you let me know how much for a kit to do this conversion set to NZ.

thanks
 
Great thanks

All stations go.

I'll also post my new rims when they arrive.

cheers
 
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