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Which carbs for GSX1100SXZ?

tone,
The reason Iam trying to nail down the specs for my Kat is that for the last 22 years I had understood that it was one of the wire wheeled Bathurst model Katanas. Seems that may not be the case so I would like to determine exactly which model I do have. If you don't ask you'll never know. Then there are the gems that turn up out of the blue, Wire Wheel Katman and his E27 NZ 6 Hour, now that is not just info, thats KATANA HISTORY! Not yelling, just wrapped to know there are still some left on the road, cheers.
 
You are aware of cause that the seats are still available brand new genuine!!!

Dink
 
I'm positive you'll find that the Australian Wire Wheels (which I've always known as the "Bathurst") had the standard 34mm CVs.

Another bike that would be great to track down would be a "Black Piper". Suzuki N.Z. imported 12 in 1980 (GSX1100T) and 20 in 1981 (GSX1100X) for those years 6 Hour races. They had the spoke wheels, slide carbs and the two inner header pipes were silver chromed instead of black.
 
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They were until recently, I ordered one in Dec 07 and the answer here was the 1100 grey/blue seat is now a deleted line. Spoke with Suziparts in SA and they don't have one and were not able to source one in Dec.
 
The 34mmCVs feature on nearly all the 1100 wire wheel Kats I've seen both in the flesh and net images. There is an NZ 6 Hour in the "Your Kats" at Katana Central, your maybe? The "Black Piper" import were they a 4 into 2 or 4 into 1 system for the 1980 and 1981?
 
I'm watching this thread with interest & am learning a lot :-D

Just a thought but for those hard to find kat bits you could always try http://www.robinsonsfoundry.co.uk/ they carry a load of NOS & are a big company so i doubt they would have problems shipping anywhere :-D an email is probably best as the main site is only really set up to flog the modern stock, they list on the uk ebay site too :-D

Hope it helps
 
Shin-Ken 1074 said:
The 34mmCVs feature on nearly all the 1100 wire wheel Kats I've seen both in the flesh and net images. There is an NZ 6 Hour in the "Your Kats" at Katana Central, your maybe? The "Black Piper" import were they a 4 into 2 or 4 into 1 system for the 1980 and 1981?
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No, neither of the N.Z. WWs on Katana Central are my one. I'll see if I can figure out how to post a decent sized photo here.

The 1980 Black Pipers were mid-blue while the 1981 ones were silver. The exhaust was 4 into 2.
 
Just looked at the 1100SXZ's at Kat Central no NZ 6 Hour, right bike wrong site, sorry about Chief, missed by that much. Will keep looking as it is the only image of the model I have found so far. Will post site when found.
 
Thanks, photo would be great. As I mentioned to tone, once mine is presentable again I'll attempt to post photos. Could be a painful for a techno gumbbie like me, but we'll see how it goes.
 
Ohhhh yeah! She's hot!!!!
The seat looks pretty good compared to mine, good to see the helmet lock and lift handle are still there. Are the front disc slots different to standard or is it just the overlap of the two discs? Did you replace the rear wheel guard with an original or was the original long guard still on it when you bought her? So many were cut down it's rear to see a full length example these days. I agree with rear sproket, (how many teeth on the 6 Hour original spec?) have fitted aftermarket sprockets but not anymore. The genuine sprockets are not that much extra and I have found that they last longer as well as look the part. Did the E27 6 Hour Kat retain the 630 profile chain or go to the lighter 530? Hmmmm, Miss Alt Feb, so nice.
 
Shin-Ken 1074 said:
Ohhhh yeah! She's hot!!!!
The seat looks pretty good compared to mine, good to see the helmet lock and lift handle are still there. Are the front disc slots different to standard or is it just the overlap of the two discs? Did you replace the rear wheel guard with an original or was the original long guard still on it when you bought her? So many were cut down it's rear to see a full length example these days. I agree with rear sproket, (how many teeth on the 6 Hour original spec?) have fitted aftermarket sprockets but not anymore. The genuine sprockets are not that much extra and I have found that they last longer as well as look the part. Did the E27 6 Hour Kat retain the 630 profile chain or go to the lighter 530? Hmmmm, Miss Alt Feb, so nice.
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Damn, you have a fine eye.:lol:

I forgot that in that photo the disc had a bad score mark around it from a stone caught in the caliper and I'd photoshopped it out (not very well obviously). The disc has since been replaced. The seat isn't too bad except the three grooves at the back are starting to lift. The rear guard is original and it still runs the 630 chain. I thought about converting it but can't bring myself to take it away from original. (I had a jacket that used to leave a tiny black mark on the tank which could have been easily fixed by a small piece of scuff tape on the tank - I replaced the jacket instead!)
 
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