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GS500 build thread... cf tanks, internal supercharger, etc

so far.... it's awesome! people pay bank for CF parts and you seem to be shitting them out, in a very respectful manner of course.
Are you gonna do something about that rear wheel, cuz it's mighty narrow on the rubber scale.
 
HIglesias said:
so far.... it's awesome! people pay bank for CF parts and you seem to be shitting them out, in a very respectful manner of course.
Are you gonna do something about that rear wheel, cuz it's mighty narrow on the rubber scale.
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Yah, eventually. I'll either swap to a katana wheel and step the tire up to a 160, or do a swingarm swap.
 
mllcb42 said:
haven't cleared anything yet. The pipes got an extra layer of carbon and were heat shrink wrapped to ensure no possible leaks(they were sweating a bit when I was running water through them before). The tank and seat cowl were sanded down then got a light coating of resin to fill any imperfections.
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nice, they look a lot better than the initial shots
 
vids wen you can of bike on the streats blowin
 
looking PRETTY sexy.

as for the EFI convert(not relating to OP)

you can do the swap to anything, and the benifits are nice but rather marginal. a WELL tuned carb will always out do a shitty EFI setup, and the money it takes to do EFI proper you might as well pay a shop to install a new crate engine from another bike. id guess that 90% of the time people are better staying with carbs untill their next bike

I prefer the mechanical genius of carbs myself but EFI is nice.
 
DaveT319 said:
Hmm, interesting. I guess something else I should think about doing to my Vulcan. Who wouldn't want a little more power and better fuel economy, even in a cruiser?
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For the money you can do much better things to a carbed bike than to switch to EFI, especially a cruiser.
 
jraice said:
For the money you can do much better things to a carbed bike than to switch to EFI, especially a cruiser.
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Yeah, since I made that post, I came up with something else I want to do, but I won't muck up this thread any more with that.
 
Got the wiring roughed in. Now just to do a little work to the ecu, and it should be ready to fire up!
 
from the photo it looks like the front wheel is on backwards. see the raised casting that says "suzuki" or "3.50 x 17", its always on the left side of the wheel.
 

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also i'm curious as to why you used this bolt, nut & orings to seal off the valve stem hole instead of just tapping the valve guide & threading a bolt into it with some thread sealer on it? if your bolt & nut set up ever comes loose the bolt will make contact with the piston, but if you had the valve guide tapped the bolt could never come in contact with the piston, since it'd be threaded from the cam side of the guide.
 

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salivating for an eventual youtube video :)
 
joining this thread so late, but I read all 22 pages and have some serious respect to give.
Hope you get it running tonite, might want to hook up a standard battery for the cranking loads during testing (which you probably are already doing).
 
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