Gsx750 cafe/street bike

[bda4130]

Right... Got a bit of stuff done, got my bottom shock mount/chain clearance cock up sorted. Got all my engine mounts made and tacked in, was a big day of cutting and grinding! Next step is to start doing frame bracing and sort out my chain line.





I bolted the exhaust on and chopped the muffler off the gsx pipe and sat it on to see what it would look like. I'll be wrapping it in heat wrap like the old one, in this photo I have the back of the muffler kicked up a bit, but it my look quite good with the muffler level with the ground??? I might get my rear sets on before I commit to the alignment of it. Also, the left hand header pipe hits the frame... We made a real mess of trying to get it straight, so that's one more issue to fix, otherwise everything is falling into place:-) cheers for all the positive comments too, makes me feel like I'm on the right track with this mission!

[92gsx750]

Finally after weeks of searching I found a thread with a bandit 1200 motor swap. Looks great, subscribed

[bda4130]

Finally after weeks of searching I found a thread with a bandit 1200 motor swap. Looks great, subscribed

Funny you should say that, cause I searched for ages to to try find a build like this but never did. Found a gs550/bandit swap and heaps of katana ones but no gs/gsx bandit conversion....surely it's been done plenty of times before.

[bda4130]

Made some progress today, got The exhaust sorted so it doesn't hit the frame.

[bda4130]

for some reason I'm having issues loading photos so I have to put each photo up on a seperate post.

[bda4130]

got a bit of bracing done for the top shock mount... I'm pretty sure that shock mount won't snap off!

[bda4130]

my morbidly obese friend Ed did a bit of tinkering with the tachometer and speedo which I think is gonna look pretty good once the headlight etc is in place.

[bda4130]

No photos to show tonight. Just mocked up the oil cooler, did manage to order a chain, sprockets and handlebars today, So might have some action photos tomorrow...

[bda4130]

Picked up my 520 chain and sprockets today as well as some clipons. Bolted on the sprockets and draped the chain over them. The chain JUST clears the frame, so I'll get 3mm machined off the rear sprocket carrier and the same off the gearbox output shaft spacer. Chucked the bars on... Not sure how I'm gonna run them, but they're fully adjustable in every direction so I'll get the rearsets on and sort all that out.
It's quite hard to get a good photo angle of the chain clearance

Here's the bars, check out the bandit frame in the background... Not much left of it!

[brslk]

Wow! not a lot of clearance there at all.

Bruce.

[bda4130]

Wow! not a lot of clearance there at all.

Bruce.

Yeah, I knew it was gonna be tight! From what I've read, most people who put a bandit swingarm on a gs/gsx engined bike need to gain 6mm more clearance for the chain to miss the frame. I'll end up with 4mm between my chain and frame ( which seems to me like plenty) by only taking 3mm off the sprocket carrier and output spacer. All seems a bit easy really!!! Hope it works:-)

[bda4130]

Got some chain clearance now:

[Erki]

beautiful.

[gs58]

Where did you get the clip ons from? They look the business.

[Big T]

Great idea and nice progress

Did you find this on OSS?



You might want to consider more bracing for the additional HP