Getting closer to assembly day

Well I know it’s been a bloody long time since ive been able to do an update, quite frankly it’s because i hadnt done much. Well that has changed over the last 3 weeks and I have managed to progress a fair way along.

3 Weeks ago the bike was a bare frame/swingarm and was actually quite depressing. I was waiting on the final shipment of engine parts (don’t know how many times ive said final, something else always comes up). The shipment was to contain all my bearing, fuel fittings, gauges and a new turbine housing to suit the turbo manifold that Richard at RCCTurbos.com hooked me up with. Only problem is that the turbine housing got stolen in transit, even though the tracking info says delivered…

The manifold, like the Billet intercooled Plenum is the same as supplied with Richard’s “Ultra” kit as seen here, If any of you guys with suzuki’s are looking at going turbo, Richard is the man.

Another downfall that was discovered when cleaning the swingarm was a crack around one of the chain guard mounts. A new swingarm was ordered from OS, ended up going with a 3-9in extended arm with underbracing. These are made by a guy in Canada who does some very nice work. In about 4 weeks the replacement housing and the swingarm will arrive and we will be one step closer to a running and rolling bike.

So… The bike, as you can see below, pretty depressing huh?

Since then i’ve rebuilt the forks and lowered them 2 inches internally so that i can piss off the straps that i have previously used to lower the front. I’ll be honest and say that i didnt go over the top with forks, the bike isn’t a corner carver so i couldnt see the need to go with all the good internals, just a quick rebuild with new seals will do for now, also a future mod on the cards is the GSXR 1000 front end.

This time last week, the majority of the new parts were laid out for a quick stocktake to ensure we had everything available as USPS tracking said the latest shipment had just cleared customs. Happy times ahead.