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Hey simesman! Welcome to oss you are in great company both with suzuki and gs in here. And we appreciate pictures, don't be shy A classic gs is mighty beautiful! Cheers Jens

Hi Mouse Welcome to oss =) Looking forward to hear more of your ideas. Cheers Jens

Hi Sorry to hear about your friend. Nice bike any who. You can also try Wemoto in UK for parts. They got a selection of OEM and non OEM parts.

Nice bike! I like it! Welcome to OSS

Very nice work! Looking forward to see more photos

So a locally 3 for the price of 1?

I second heat. I use propane torch on those. Not much to it.

Nice score!! Congrats

Sounded really good! Can't wait to hear the new exhaust! The exhaust from Exhaustcraft looks wicked

Very cool! Nice red top =)

I've got the same tank on my gs1000g

I think Wurth manufacturs progressive springs for those forks.

That's a great trip! Good luck

Cheers man What year is that? It says 1984 in its papers, but that seems wrong...

Pretty boring topic, but still, I don't get this. I've been to ozebook.com, oldjapanesebikes.com, https://www.motorcyclespareparts.eu/en/suzuki-parts/suzuki-model-identification, and more. My frame number is GT71A100439. It's short, and I don't see how it maches with the bike Support please. Cheers Jens

That 's awesome! Some kind of project =) Where's the roadtrip to and from? Didn't know you could get a bike in Norway for that price. Pretty hard market... Good luck!

Awesome

That's cool!!

Nice cat and boot

Take a look at this post from @Fjbj40 regarding moving the petcock from the tank, inline with carbs.

You are right, @Gixer1460 I do have knowledge of generator systems while working on synchronous machines the last 8 years now. The asynchronous machines in our bikes I know very little of, but from my former company we used to re-energize permanent magnets; charging them with DC for about 12-18 hours. This was industrial machines which had ran 24/7 in 20-30 years. How applicable it is to our generators I'm not sure. When it comes to generator design the magnetic field is divided into moving magnets and the flux in the core. Looking into the space we are balancing flux density of the core with copper for the current generated. So increasing the magnet itself isn't enough, we have to look at the core and field. As I said, I'm not that familiar with MC generators. What I would like to do is lower the voltage, maybe reduce amount of coils, and increase core and copper. 75V AC for creating stable 14.7 VDC is very high for todays standard. I have removed my old stator and I intent to do some resource. The easiest way is finding a larger stator from another bike (like the hayabusa), or make one from skratch. There's a race kit generator on the market from Electrex. As you can se from the standard stator kit, it has 18 coils. The race kit on the other hand has only 12 coils. They have reduced with 2 coils per phase! Additionally they have moved the core on the outside, getting more space for both core and coil. A new rotor with magnets is also included in this kit. These magnets are most likely stronger than the original, @Gixer1460 The race kit is quite expensive (€500). I've did some research for prices of the core only, and ordered from Asia it's only €10. A DIY version is possible. The original stator has 18 coils, and at 5000 rpm its generating 75VAC. That's 43.3VAC phase voltage, which again is 36,1VAC per coil. By removing one coil we're down to 62,4VAC at 5000rpm. I'm not sure what voltage at idle, I have not measured. The race kit I assume has stronger magnets, and generates more voltage per pole.

I was under the impression that you could use a Yamaha petcock. Don't remember the model. Google it. Came across it when I refurbished mine last year

Lol! My old bike was like that : when I honked the headlight was dimmed with about 80%... Didn't see a thing....

You might be right. I do not know the Katana that well. Here's my numbers for my GS. Made a section for total, and one with "normal run". I shaved of approx 54W, and it's almost covering for the ECU/Pump. I also came across a stator from Hayabyus 1300 with almost gs1000 specs. Don't remember the year. I'm going to make some control measurements, and see if it's possible to fit it. That would be an upgrade in power I suppose.

Out of curiosity, which bulbs are swopped with LEDs? I think I've managed them all. Changed the headlight though