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New fork legs are often a good option if you can stretch to them. No rust, and straight. Race tech sell them amongst others

Went for a 1300km ride over labour weekend. Oil temp got up to 140c when thrashing it between Napier and Taihape. I have an 1100 oil cooler from a later model bike, and new valving to control the oil flow through the cooling system. From this: To this: 11 rows to 14 rows, much wider and curved. Will make an air guiding duct for the top, and fit foam inside the fairings to guide the air through the cooler. Also have a set of 36mm flat slides I'm currently rebuilding to fit on because more power is good power. (It has plenty)

Have decided I'm going to go for a full re-wire, use new connectors and make a pattern so that I can sell the looms overseas. Found, bought and fitted an oil temperature gauge. I don't know how accurate it is, but it was showing up to 110degC on the weekend with the mrs on the back and going slow

I had better results out of Wemoto UK, but AU did come to the party and sort out the mistakes they made. The frieght to get it sent here is not bad, and no GST that way

Wemoto is also a good place to get parts for older bikes

Have changed the gearing and played with jetting last week. Was jetted slightly rich at a 135 main. Went worse with a 140 main, will get a set of 130s to try next. Went -1 on the front sprocket, and +3 on the rear. The gearing is much better meow. Had an issue with the headlights not going, traced it to a dud connector. Currently I'm undecided as to whether to fix electrical faults as the arise, or just make a new loom with modern connectors.

Was cool to meet a few of you guys tonight, there happened to be a bunch of tidy old cars parked at a burger joint near work. Gav (on the motorbike)

Spec seems wrong, the pins look fairly central in their rollers

Photo dump: Swingarm had closed up from bracing, Needed a bit of a stretch to get the chain to line up. 8am on Saturday the bikes were in the same room as each other but nowhere near ready to ride to Wellington Carbs weren't back in time to reassemble so had to make a set that were under a bench fit and work. None of the exhaust parts I had would line up other than the period Yoshimura full system I had installed on the 750, so that had to go onto the 1200 and had to mix and match to get an exhaust on the 750. Would like to make a new system of similar dimensions to the Yoshi soon.

Purchase price was $1001. Have spent roughly $7k on top of that so far, and still need paint. It would have been cheaper for me to walk into Colemans and buy the K8 GSXR 1000 they have in the showroom.

Have just done the gearing calculations. It was geared for 308km/h. I've dropped that to a slightly more useable 276. It's already a weapon out of the hole, and smokes the 750 in a decent launch

It's been a busy fortnight. Will upload the in-between pics when I can. Didn't get it done in time to ride to Wellington. Got it finished last night, and we took both bikes out for a ride today. It's fast, will be better with jetting and gearing changes. Jets are too lean, and gears are too tall. Small leak from sump plug, and possible fork oil leak too. It has the handling of my '85 750, and the power of my '03 R1. So much fun

Red carb tops, like a real set of MJNs Head assembled Head installed, and cams to be timed to GSXR1100 spec Quick action throttle Suzuki Grey is very similar to Scania Grey Frame bracing Frame installed on engine

Stickers!

Have taken 2mm off the head to get the compression ratio close to where I want it at 12:1, took some bravery to instruct the machinist to let rip.

no more sharp steps, that's all the ports are getting bottom shock mount now fits the linkage

Swingarm braced

Ignition and fork springs R1 shock re-sprung Thanks @Mr Vapour

Plenty of room for improvement. Cleaned all of the valves today, CC'd the head and dropped it off for a big skim last week, dug some GSXR1100 cams out of the spares box today First shiny stuff arrived earlier this week. Now these are joined by fork springs and an ignitech. R1 shock is re-sprung, and needs a shave for clearance in the linkage. Carb parts are off for machining to try and get teh MJN needles to fit.

Getting fixed this week Dropped of to @Mr Vapour this evening Factory flatslides will be modified for the bigger engine Not sure yet how I'm going to fit the Yoshimura MJN needles into these carbs yet, but I'll give it a go. I may yet run this bank of carbs on my 750

Cardboard bracing all sticky taped in

Stripped down to a bare frame, it fits into the turbo wash at work. Lots of parts to go for refinishing, and frame is off to have bracing welded into it this weekend. Anyone who's ridden a slabside GSX-R will know why, they're pretty flexible.

This is my 3rd, number 1 is sitting next to it, and number 2 is in storage. Fairings all ready to go for paint. Ordered loads of parts today

I accidentally won an auction for a GSXR that I didn't need, now I've got it and have offered for a mate to ride it to Wellington in 6 weeks. Time to get my shit together and start building

@cletus, do you have any contacts for LVV cert on a motorcycle? I'm looking at doing an engine swap which would increase CC rating from 750 to 1200