DaveV65

Thanks Arttu

missed out the word "easy"

Thanks Gixer1460, I'm guessing any restriction would be fairly rudimentary and relatively to reverse.

I'm just looking at a 1984 GSX11 EF in Germany, were European versions restricted at all?

I didn't think the question would generate such a response but the education is most welcomed.

I'd take either of them!

imago, thanks for the encyclopaedic knowledge. I do recall buying it off a mate of Steve Burns who was going to use the money from selling it to make his turbo Kat even more mental.

Thanks Tony, very informative, I guess that the old girl was an EX based on year and the black engine, she's still showing on the Gov is my vehicle taxed website, my old EF isn't, sold it to a mate and it was reversed over by an artic!

A thing of beauty, jealous!

Many years back I had a 1983 GSX1100 ET or was it an EX? I have seen a number of posts saying there wasn't much difference between the two models, was it just a revised name for the later years or are there specific differences?

Do you need a special respirator when using the 2K clearcoat? Not saying line fed as in a car spraybooth but a particular level of vapour and particle filtration?

NigKat, will the inlet valves sit flush with the cam turned away from the follower? You may have bent a couple, as you say the pistons have been kissed and there's witness marks on the valves.

Well it is aircooled and it's on the aircooled forum! The back end would be nice but the front end is completely non adjustable so waste of time even on a svelte Monster. I will be looking for plenty of advice as to what the best swaps front and rear are, and easiest of course.

I have more pictures of the EF but my daughter may have them on her "Wall". I know it's a Ducati not a Suzuki but I'm chancing it.

Yes it was a great bike in town, was a definite change riding that after the EF. Bottom of the tank rusted through.

I hope so, my old EX was mint, black with blue stripes, black chrome Kat pipes, Marzocchis and I bought it off a mate of Steve Burns. EF was different, scruffy, had been dropped, RD125LC headlight, non standard paint but she was a missile.

Thanks for the welcome, I'll have to dig out the old photos of the EX and EF. I also have my good lady's first bike squirrelled away in the shed, an old GSX400F, ripe for restoration.

Hi folks, thought it was time I joined after reading numerous articles by Gary Hurd in PS before its demise. Anyway, 30 years and three kids after owning a GSX1100EX and a GSX1100EF i thought it time to get back on a bike. I had a near fatal experience but fully recovered and thought life is for living so bought a Ducati Monster 796, which I love by the way. But my heart says 1100EF with modern suspension. Nothing but nothing has that wall of torque like the aircooled 1100, so I've set myself a mission. Ducati is great for the A & B roads but she's not comfy or as lazy as I recall the EF.