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Left for dead

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Quick question....I'll ask in a different section here too...
Will the pistons/cylinder/head from a 82 GS1100GK drop directly onto a GS1000E chain drive engine?
Or are the rods a different length, or piston pin height issues?
 
Still collecting.....

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Got my new title, so now I can get more serious about it.:D
 
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Testing my ideas on the GS
 
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Rear hub is GS 1000, with a 3.5X18 Sun aluminum rim...off a old drag bike....
Front hub was from a GT550 that I laced to a Sun 2.75X18 aluminum rim
Rotors are going to be GS1150
Front and rear calipers off a 600 Kat
GS1100 swingarm, which I had to spread rear foot peg area in frame, to give enough clearance to fit. About 1/8 inch on each side now.

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Being a big fan of spoked wheels, all i can say is nice work mating the GS parts with the aftermarket rims.
I have a Sun 3.5" x18" on the '79 CBX and a 150 BT45 tire works well.
 
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Are your rims polished? I'm thinking it would look better than the anodized finish now.... Just not into trying to get the anodize off.
 
I love the way your CBX looks with the 6 into 6 setup. I remember when they were available years ago, I almost got a set for my CBX....but I was too cheap and already had a stainless Supertrap setup... What are those front calipers off of?
Also...how do you get your pictures to come out so big.....I can not get pics big, like I did when I first started to post?
 
The PipeMasters 6-6 are still available but i think they are now $2200.00. That is nuts.
I got lucky on this used set for a grand. They do nothing for performance but they look great and sound amazing.

The front calipers are Pro-Link and the rotors are CBR F3 i think. Fuzzy memory. Lots of experimenting with spacers and brake pads.

Not sure about photo sizing. Mine are on Photobucket and when i transfer them over here they are automatically sized to these dimensions.
 
I just won a battle for a 78 gas tank..... One of my biggest concerns for this bike, as I did not want to use ANY other year or model tank.
I was getting to the point of seriously considering buying an entire bike to get a tank.....:disturbed:
Also soda blasted my engine, and pulled the bottom cover off to check out internals a bit. The thing is SPOTLESS inside....it's been a very good day :victorious:


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Well... the key word was considered.
Luckily for me, someone else stripped apart a seemingly perfectly good bike, because they could get more money out of it that way...something I have never done.
There are those who see a bike needing some work, and see only $$$ in the parts
There are those who see a bike needing some work, and see more in it than the value of it's parts......Give it a new life, the bike then adding smiles to those who ride it again.
As long as those two opinions work together, everyone smiles in the end....

I see skunk tanks regularly also...but they are still being used on the bike.
Or full of holes like mine.
 
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Donate that one with holes to me. I will GLADLY recondition it. To me throwing one out is like not eating the last bite of a great cheesecake..WRONG!!!!!
 
Not thrown out, but hung up on the wall.....might be more incentive to save it in 15/20 more years....
Kinda looks cool as moto/art right now.
 
Fix it now..may not last that long...LOL. Ever you want me to give it a go just say the word and PM me.
 
Gee whiz - Chuck, Tornado; you guys need to quit sh*tting up a pretty cool build thread.
 
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