Gammaboy

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I only just noticed the Staubli fitting on the oil cap. Nice!

I fixed mine this way:

Looks like those rockers aren't long for this world - hard chrome looks like it's worn through on the corners...

There's a rubber peg in the clutch?

Sell it to me - you'll have less projects to worry about !

Bugger about Nicom - he was much better to deal with than Dave Kellet. Would love a slabby 750, but an 1100 would work too - what's your plan for it?

Best head gasket for an 1170 is the Suzuki gasket for a EFE. Cases are sealed with a thin smear of casebond/yamabond/threebond grey

Talk to Lynton Tony, his jig table would be right up that sort of alley - or take it to Nick at NiCom down at logan-ish. And if you see another GSX750 frame for $100 let me know (or an Slabby 750 frame!)

So the issue for GSX14 starter sprag is the GSX14 needs the engagement diameter to be .5mm larger - GSX11 is 52mm, GSX14 is 52.5. Rotor is bigger - 128mm OD, 115mm OD on the stator.

Flooded it mate?

Mine started out as a 750 Kat - (the 750 motor went into the GSX1100 the 1100 came out of, should have kept that bike) - I'd have no issues what so ever starting with a 750 frame. Box section 750s - ie pop up Kats etc - are a very different motor - easily identified by the 2 style grooves on the clutch cover. They run a different gearbox centre spacing, and are probably closer to a GSXR motor than a GSX - Oil cooled motors will go into them easily, Air cooled motors require the frame to be stretched ~1" because they're so short fore/aft.

As soon as I saw the first pic I thought - Bet that's those Automagic fellers. They did an absolutely magic ZX10/GPZ hybrid that was bolted together like that.

TZ750 guys have been welding cases back together for eons, if they're done right, it's not an issue.

I'd still check the fucking things for square. A bloke I know had an RG that had a crank pin that was miles out of phase - had come from suzuki like that. Sorted it, and it vibrated alot less. Not keen on welding cases back together?

Therre's a form of it that wWorks for Alloy too - the aircraft guys refer to it as Eddy current testing - it's slightly different, but works for finding cracks. Have you got a pin to check the crank for phasing? if the crank is square, and true, with the journals in an up/down position you should be able to fit the ground pin through all four rods at the same time with the rods towards you, and away from you - it's a pain to describe, but it's a 2 second test in the flesh. Dare say it's cracking from the end of the stud though - you're not bottoming or torquing the studs in are you?

Steve (Lucky Seven) is on farcebook if you want to find him. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004563196433&fref=ts

Might be the camera angle, but fuck it's wide!

Bigger starter clutch - not sure on overall diameters. I've been given this info second hand - don't know if the starter clutch will work with a GSX gear yet, but I'm sure Joe will have a look. Hell, there's probably half a chance a GSX14 starter gear will do the job.

It appears that the GSX1400 flywheel fits the large taper GSX cranks - it's a different starter clutch diameter though.

Rest of the gear is already case hardened - not a problem.

Front engine mounts are 10ft long - it's an EFE frame, engine mounted to the back.

Just got a call from the guy doing the Grinding - it's case hardened, so soft in the middle. Might be that your tooling was blunt enough to work harden it and make it machine "hard".

Yeah, i think you've got a little bit of tube diameter, and a much better head stock area over a GSX/Kat frame though.

That's not SRAD, it's 750WP-WN. Fuck it'd be tight with a GS/GSX motor in it.