GSX1100 carb swap?

[crayonjota]

Yesterday I was having a chat with the guy who bought my bike new and used it for 20yrs before selling it on. He pulled a pair of Marzocci shocks and handed them too me, saying that they were too stiff for him and used them for a few weeks before buying OE spec air shocks (which the bike came with..nice units, but heavy)

He is pulling me a box of parts, including mirrors, turn signal lamps, coils, perhaps the stock exhaust and a set of 79 GSX1100 carbs, complete, along with other sundry that would be collected over 20yrs of ownership...

My question is, the bike runs great right now, but the idea of swapping out carbs turns me on, so can these other carbs be swapped over and would I get any performance gains???

Another guy has a 16v head from the GSX and the it looks like a direct bolt on, as the bike he rides seems to have the same bottom end as my 8valver..

Thanks,

CJ

[robinjo]

Re: GSX1100 carb swap?

Yesterday I was having a chat with the guy who bought my bike new and used it for 20yrs before selling it on. He pulled a pair of Marzocci shocks and handed them too me, saying that they were too stiff for him and used them for a few weeks before buying OE spec air shocks (which the bike came with..nice units, but heavy)

He is pulling me a box of parts, including mirrors, turn signal lamps, coils, perhaps the stock exhaust and a set of 79 GSX1100 carbs, complete, along with other sundry that would be collected over 20yrs of ownership...

GSX1100 was made from '80 on, not '79, are those carbs the 34mm vacuum carbs? What carbs does your '80 1000 have? slide carbs or vacuum?



My question is, the bike runs great right now, but the idea of swapping out carbs turns me on, so can these other carbs be swapped over and would I get any performance gains???

Another guy has a 16v head from the GSX and the it looks like a direct bolt on, as the bike he rides seems to have the same bottom end as my 8valver.. Even if the head fits on the cylinders the pockets for the valves are different 4v-2v

Thanks,

CJ

[SqDancerLynn1]

8 valve and 16 valve are not interchangable, to be practical anyway. Any thing is possible with enough money

[crayonjota]

Re: GSX1100 carb swap?

GSX1100 was made from '80 on, not '79, are those carbs the 34mm vacuum carbs? What carbs does your '80 1000 have? slide carbs or vacuum?CJ

I have slide carbs, factory stock.. I have yet to see these other carbs, or the condition they are in...

As to the head swap, err, yeah, I dont want to chuck money at the bike, so 8v will have to suffice, and it is no big sacrifice anyway.