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1981 GSX1100 Katana Based Project

While the Kat has been waiting for the refurbished starter clutch I went shopping and found a short length titanium and carbon muffler for the project. The muffler arrived today and was very pleased to see it weigh 290 grams less than the carbon muffler in current use.

Curb Weight Running Tally: 197.475 kg.
The old and new mufflers length compared.
Replacement Muffler a by Max Mutarn, on Flickr


Replacement Muffler b by Max Mutarn, on Flickr


Replacement Muffler c by Max Mutarn, on Flickr
 
@Shin-Ken 1074

Over the last couple of days I have read, with great pleasure, through this whole topic, all 41 pages of it. Thank you so much for meticulously keeping track of your progress and posting all the weights, what a tremendous amount of work it must have been.

It's inspirational, and you have inspired me to approach one of my projects in a slightly different way than planned, and it has to do with weight savings (no shit?) :).

If I could, I would nominate this topic to be eternalised in some kind of Internet archive of interesting topics. Forums are a dying breed unfortunately and the kind of knowledge, experience and effort displayed here...you simply won't find that in what constitutes the forums replacement; social media...

This is one of the greats, thank you.
 
Hello WolfTechnics,

Thank you for your comments and understanding regarding the Project, they are very much appreciated. Great to hear you have a like minded project in the mill and Iam very interested to know what you have planned. Hope to see your project started here soon and I'll be no doubt one of the many to follow it along.

What part of the world are you in?

Cheers.
 
I am based on the Netherlands.

The project to follow is my GS500e 1989 OEM+ build right now.

My dream build will be another 2 years or so before I can really focus on it. The plan is a super lightweight Gs450 frame with a gs400 bottom end. Through a combination of parts and custom parts I want to build a high powered monster, utilizing either a gr650 2 valve head or a cut down gsxr750 4 valve head.

The inspiration I got from this topic is to aim less for maximum HP and more for less weight.
 
Netherlands, thanks. Raw HP (not the sauce), can be fun however, full on hotrods with a ton of power tend to break components and take the shine off a good ride day. Nothing wrong about hotrods and power, they are great as long as you are prepared for the downtime.

My project was designed to exploit the benefits of power to weight ratio with mild engine power mods ( 1197 kit, modified carbs, Yoshi stage 2 hollow cams, 5 plane valve seat cut) and making a stock scooter as light as I could within my skill level and budget. The head and barrels needed to be worked on at an engineering shop however, pretty much everything else is a DIY at home job.

Cheers.
 
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