Project GS550

[Smoke-dog]

I am a little confused on the rear wheel fitment. I haven't taken any measurements on my bike, but if I stretch my stock swingarm I should have room for a five inch wheel? How hard was it to line up the sprockets? BTW I LOVE your bike.
thanks for the motivation and inspiration.

I guess i got lucky on the sprockets cause i thought for sure i was gonna have to space out the frame. As for the front sprocket i just welded two sprockets together. Actually there is another member who did exactly what i did on the front sprocket. I would say that the sproket alignment is off by only a 1/16 of an inch or less. And thanks for the compliment. 8)

[1quik6]

Smoke-I am sorry for all of the questions, but I am really interested in what had to be done to make the wheel fit in the swingarm. I have not looked on mine yet, but I didn't think that they were wide enough to fit the wheel, sprocket and brake with out widening it. It looks like you just extended it. Is that correct?
Thanks for the help and sorry for the rambling.

[Smoke-dog]

No problem buddy, i'll answer any question i can. For the swingarm what i did was extended it three inches. The main reason why i did that was so the tire would'nt rub towards the front of the swingarm. If you cut the swing arm where it tapers you can just move the rear of the swing arm til it looks like it's enough to fit the wheel and not rub. Thats how i came up with the three inches, just eye ballin it til it looked like it would work LOL!!! If you click on the link on my first post it will take you to my cycleworld post and i have pics of how i did it. Feal free to ask what ever you want im willin to help. 8)

[Smoke-dog]

I almost forgot, i did space out the front sprocket cover about 1/4 so it would'nt rub.

[1quik6]

I see now. That is awesome. You are the F'n Man. Love your bike, do you know what color are you gonna paint.

[Smoke-dog]

One day i'll paint her black again because as you know "black is beautiful" 8) .

[Smoke-dog]

Here are some more pics of the 550 after the tailsection mod and 4 to 1 header. Im planing on putting a set of dual tips under the tail.

[Smoke-dog]

Here is another angle.

[brveagle]

Pretty Pretty... What size rear wheel is that? And what tire did you use.

Just curious, thanks

[Smoke-dog]

It's a 5 1/2 inch kaw wheel with a 180/55/17 dunlop D220. I can go with a 190 and it should fit fine.

[miksim35]

What year is the seat section? And how's it bolt up to the bike. thanks

[Smoke-dog]

The seat and tail are from a 2002 GSXR1000 and what i did was run a tap to the frame and bolted the seat and tail to it. For the rear section i cut the subframe then rewelded it in the right position for the rear mounts.

[miksim35]

Thanks a bunch for your help! lol from dstx

[Smoke-dog]

What is dstx?

[miksim35]

dstx means, deep south texas.