Carb Replacement Question

[mbradford99]

I currently have a 1980 1100E with mikuni bs34ss carbs.

I am thinking of replacing with a new set of 4 carbs. Does anyone know of the model # or brand of something to replace these with ?

I searched in Mikuni and didn't really see/understand what I could replace with.

any ideas from y'all would be much appreciated.

Mike

[tfb]

I replaced the BS carbies on my Katana with '89/'90 'Slingshot' 34mm carbs from a GSX-R1100.
The bike runs sooooo much better. Full account of the proceedings here.

[Nessism]

Rebuilding your existing carbs, or finding a rebuildable set of stock carbs is the easiest path forward. It’s an easy process to take a set of carbs, strip them down, soak in carb dip, and then reassemble with an O-ring kit from cycleorings.com. Even if you find some used carbs somewhere you should rebuild them since all the various O-rings are sure to be hard and brittle.

If you’ve never rebuilt a set of carbs before check the GSR homepage for a nice tutorial which will lead you though the process. It’s not hard, just requires you to be detail oriented. Most newbies doing their first carb job short cut the process and then have problems later; short cuts are long cuts when it comes to carb rebuilding.

[don_gibb6512]

If you decide to go the RS Flatslide route, go with 36mm. I bought the 34's and wish I would have gone with the 36's. More "umph" for the money and the motor can definitely handle it. RS36-D3-K with spacing 77-93-77

http://www.sudco.com/mikuni6.html

Used go for around $400. New between $750-800. Set it up with a 4-1 pipe and K&N pods. A Pingel petcock will allow better fuel flow then the OEM also.

Good luck.