Re: 72' Suzuki GT380 first time build.
I've got a few really bad shots, and nothing online.... Just to describe everything I did; obviously I had the Radian swingarm. Other than that, I turned the forks around backwards in the trees so the disc caliper was on the left behind the forks. I had a 17" rim laced up to the stock front hub.They were also pulled up an inch in the clamps.The front rotor was drilled, and I used a CBR1000 Hurricane master cylinder with braided steel lines. (Two fingers could put you over the bars.) Clubman bars, electronic ignition. The Boyer Brandsden unit was actually supposed to be for the Kawasaki KH250, but they sent instructions to modify it to fit the Suzuki triples. It fired all three coils at once, so reasoning that a two stroke fires every revolution instead of every other like a four-stroke, I surmised a tach set up for a four-stroke six-cylinder would work. I used a 2-inch Sunpro electronic tach and made my own cluster with a digital bicycle speedometer, the tach, the original gear-position indicator, and some mini LED idiot lights for Neutral, High beam, and turn signal functions. It was a flat sheet of polished stainless bent up about 15 degrees from level and bolted to the original gauge mounts on the upper tree.
I had Wirges chambers, black, and Emgo pod filters on GT550 carbs. The original jetting for the 550 was just right. The shocks were the reservoir-type Redwing hammerheads, three inches longer than stock. With the longer swingarm the mounts moved back some, so they needed to be a little longer than with the stock swingarm. I made rear-sets out of the factory passenger pegs. All I needed to do on the shift side was flip the original lever over and use a reverse pattern. (One up, 5 down.) It was the perfect length. The brake side gave me fits- I had it working, but not well. Given more time, I'd have just gone to a rear disc from a GS750. As it was, I cut a three-sixteenth inch section from a broken shock linkage from my VF1000R which had bronze bushings in it, and sandwiched it between the right passenger peg and it's mount. Then I made up a brake pedal out of steel and bolted them together, and moved the cable end to the hole left in the linkage slice.
Front and rear fenders were bobbed, I used a Lucas style taillight, and a solo seat from a chopper hardtail that was supposed to be sprung, but I just used the pivot at the front to lift up for oil tank access. If i can get access to a scanner, I will post what pics i have..... Thanks! I know I'm a little long-winded.
