I'm in no position to be taking on a new project (got a five-month old) but I'm noodling around a "poor man's" two-stroke. The simplest thing to do would probably be to buy a GT750 and be done with it. Trying to find a H2 (to say nothing of how rare a race water-cooled set of cylinders would be) is becoming virtually impossible.
However, I'm thinking about a twin instead. An RZ350 would be easiest, but they're not exactly common (or cheap) these days, either. I'm wondering about a bike based on the '88 GSXR frame I've got in the garage. I'd like to keep it with a Suzuki format, so I'm wondering about a T500 (which are still available cheap). The question I've got is how you'd go about converting it to liquid cooling? If you could find a set of TR500 cylinders ($$$$$$$$$$$$$) that's a possibility, but not practical. I suppose if you had access to somebody with a lathe you could turn the cylinder down and simply weld a water jacket on to both the cylinders and the cylinder heads. Sounds like a lot of expensive machine work and plumbing.
So here's my whacked out idea. A current RM250 Suzuki puts out about 45 hp. That means two of them should put out somewhere around 80hp (calculating for losses), right? What are the chances of simply grafting two RM cylinder assemblies on to a T500? I realize that's not going to be cheap either (especially compared to simply starting with a GT750) but it certainly would be an attention-getter.
Anyone with experience with Suzukis have any thoughts?
However, I'm thinking about a twin instead. An RZ350 would be easiest, but they're not exactly common (or cheap) these days, either. I'm wondering about a bike based on the '88 GSXR frame I've got in the garage. I'd like to keep it with a Suzuki format, so I'm wondering about a T500 (which are still available cheap). The question I've got is how you'd go about converting it to liquid cooling? If you could find a set of TR500 cylinders ($$$$$$$$$$$$$) that's a possibility, but not practical. I suppose if you had access to somebody with a lathe you could turn the cylinder down and simply weld a water jacket on to both the cylinders and the cylinder heads. Sounds like a lot of expensive machine work and plumbing.
So here's my whacked out idea. A current RM250 Suzuki puts out about 45 hp. That means two of them should put out somewhere around 80hp (calculating for losses), right? What are the chances of simply grafting two RM cylinder assemblies on to a T500? I realize that's not going to be cheap either (especially compared to simply starting with a GT750) but it certainly would be an attention-getter.
Anyone with experience with Suzukis have any thoughts?
