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 )
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. 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!