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Time to put my project on here as well!
I'm Willem, a 21 years old mechanical engineering student from The Netherlands. I like bikes and especially like tinkering on things and working out a plan for it myself. Last year i worked on a school project which was about building an electric racing motorcycle something completely different than a cafe racer
Enought about me, lets talk about the bike.
The bike i bought in January was a Suzuki GSX400 Four from '83 with over 80.000 kilometers on the clock. I came across this bike because of the price of 110 euros and because of the fact that is something different than the standard Honda cb's and such (no offense
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In the meantime i did quite some changes, for now I am just gonna post some pictures and if you guys have any questions veel free to ask.
After this I will try to update this topic on a regular basis with some info of course. Enjoy!
Some pics of the condition the bike was in when I bought it:
Dirty carburators, bad electrical connections
First step: cleaning and try to get it running.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq8bSnL0Ycs ;D ;D
And more disassembling:
I see potential
Engine block was next, replaced all the gasket, new piston rings, valve oil seals and 0.2mm milled of the head to give it a bit more compression.
Some of the goodies I bought for the bike:
Kawasaki ZXR 750 USD Front fork, disc, calipers and clipons, GSX-R 600 K4 rearsets, digital speedo etc.
Also found a CB550F rear rim and a GS550 front rim, those are the same sizes as my original wheels so I can my tires.
Subframe has been replaced with a new one, put a brace on the swingarm and mounted a Kawasaki ER6 rear shock.
Complete pictures so far:
And also managed to get it running again after the engine rebuild, really satisfying my first ever engine that I took apart :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5Nt4uJ_cFA
More things to come!
I'm Willem, a 21 years old mechanical engineering student from The Netherlands. I like bikes and especially like tinkering on things and working out a plan for it myself. Last year i worked on a school project which was about building an electric racing motorcycle something completely different than a cafe racer
Enought about me, lets talk about the bike.
The bike i bought in January was a Suzuki GSX400 Four from '83 with over 80.000 kilometers on the clock. I came across this bike because of the price of 110 euros and because of the fact that is something different than the standard Honda cb's and such (no offense
In the meantime i did quite some changes, for now I am just gonna post some pictures and if you guys have any questions veel free to ask.
Some pics of the condition the bike was in when I bought it:



Dirty carburators, bad electrical connections



First step: cleaning and try to get it running.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq8bSnL0Ycs ;D ;D
And more disassembling:




I see potential
Engine block was next, replaced all the gasket, new piston rings, valve oil seals and 0.2mm milled of the head to give it a bit more compression.




Some of the goodies I bought for the bike:
Kawasaki ZXR 750 USD Front fork, disc, calipers and clipons, GSX-R 600 K4 rearsets, digital speedo etc.




Also found a CB550F rear rim and a GS550 front rim, those are the same sizes as my original wheels so I can my tires.
Subframe has been replaced with a new one, put a brace on the swingarm and mounted a Kawasaki ER6 rear shock.
Complete pictures so far:


And also managed to get it running again after the engine rebuild, really satisfying my first ever engine that I took apart :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5Nt4uJ_cFA
More things to come!