Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Arnout's Katana..'81 GSX1100ET head



Cylinder head
'81 GSX1100ET head
Ports worked on (intake to match manifolds, cleaned up)
Guides ground down to match ports
Compression about 1:11 (guestimation)
28,5 mm Manley intake valves
24,5 mm Black diamond exhaust valves
PM valve springs
Ports worked on (enlarged, cleaned up)
Gasket face milled down 0.8 mm
Megacycle cams #385-35 (250 dur. 108 LC's)
New rockers (genuine Suzuki)
Cometic graphite head gasket
Carburation
Mikuni RS38
K&N clamp on filters
Exhaust system
Mac headers
Much modified Marshall muffler (now adsortion type)
Cylinder block/ Pistons
'85 1100EFE block bored to 75 mm
Wiseco K1285 piston kit (1261 cc)
Home made copper base gasket (0.5 mm)
APE cylinder studs
Bottom end
'81 GSX1100ET cases (modified to accept EFE block)
Stock ET basket with heavy springs and stock hub
GSX750 clutch springs + shortened spacers
Afam 10 mm offset 17T sprocket
GS750E oilpump gears
Setrab 13 row oil cooler
Mocal oilstat
Electrics
Stock ignition
Dyna 3,0 Ohm Green coils
Dyna leads
Stock katana instruments and switchgear (GSX-R600 throttle)
Rolling gear
'82 GSX750S Katana frame heavily braced
Braced steel engine mounts
Modified side stand
'89 Suzuki GSX-R1100K forks with spacers
Clipons on top of yoke
Much modified YZF1000R swingarm with twin shock mounts welded on
RK 530 LFO chain 118 links. JT 43T rear sprocket
White Power L325 SAVP-T twin shocks made to own spec
TRX850 front rim (17x3.5") milled out bearing seats
FZR1000 Exup rear rim (18x4.5")
R1 "blue spot" 4-pot calipers mounted using
Custom made CNC-ed adaptors
GSX750F "katuna" master cylinder
Bodywork
Stock Katana
Recovered seat
Bandit 1200 front mudguard
Halfords paint
Dimensions
Wheelbase - 1490mm
Castor - 68 deg.
Weight (no fuel) - dunno..
Weight distribution - dunno either..
Power guestimated at rear - 130 HP ??

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