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    #1

    Sep 2025 BOTM

    Wow, you have done an amazing job restoring the Kat, well done! It looks better than factory fresh, is the air in the tyres vintage air from back in the day to go with the time capsule that is the rest of the Kat? Congratulations and thanks for the photo of an outstanding looking Kat.
    Badgezz, we don need noh stinkin' badgezz!
    Shin-Ken 1074
    1982 GSX1100SXZ Wire Wheel Katana - BOM Nov 2011
    1981 GSX1135 Katana Build completed Mar 2024, Curb Weight, all fluids and 21 lt fuel = 206 kg.
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    no photo visible - ??

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      #3
      1982 Suzuki "Custom"

      "After 15 years, my 1st year Katana restoration project is finally finished."

      Too much detail - we really don't need to know about every last nut & bolt. 1982 "Custom" tells us everything...
      1982 GS1100E V&H "SS" exhaust, APE pods, 1150 oil cooler, 140 speedo, 99.3 rear wheel HP, black engine, '83 red

      2016 XL883L sigpic Two-tone blue and white. Almost 42 hp! Status: destroyed, now owned by the insurance company. The hole in my memory starts an hour before the accident and ends 24 hours after.

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        #4
        Mike, you can see it on the home page.
        Then you can click on the link below the pic to read a short blurb from owner of this beautiful kat, first timer
        Rich
        1982 GS 750TZ
        2015 Triumph Tiger 1200
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          #5
          Hey gang, not really sure where "Custom" came from, the admin must have taken liberties. Nothing custom about the resto, (unless you want to nit pik the LED headlight bulb and 530 chain) it's a 82 GS1000SZ in full OEM trim with full OEM features. I lucked out when I bought it years ago, was a one owner bike that the owner left mostly unmolested and what he did change, he kept the take offs and passed them on to me.

          I just had to clean her up and and was lucky she wasn't to roached. Plus I hoarded parts for the rebuild while they were still available from Suzy.

          Here are some before images.

          https://i.imgur.com/h9ShdRs.jpeg

          https://i.imgur.com/IUATFlw.jpeg
          Last edited by first timer; 09-03-2025, 03:28 PM.
          78 GS1000 Yosh replica racer project
          82 Kat 1000
          10 990 ADV-R The big dirt bike​
          Some dirt bikes

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            #6
            Hope you didn't return the suspension to it's '82 specs. Cycle World said that in 1982 the suspension was "practically rigid at speeds less than 90 mph."
            1982 GS1100E V&H "SS" exhaust, APE pods, 1150 oil cooler, 140 speedo, 99.3 rear wheel HP, black engine, '83 red

            2016 XL883L sigpic Two-tone blue and white. Almost 42 hp! Status: destroyed, now owned by the insurance company. The hole in my memory starts an hour before the accident and ends 24 hours after.

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              #7
              I am running a pair of Icon shocks (lok OEMish) in the back. I still have the OEM shocks but they no longer provide any level of rebound damping and it would be quite the undertaking to disassemble the non-serviceable shocks to rebuild them. I played with some 850 shocks to see how bad it would be and you end up almost destroying them to get them apart.

              The front end is stock, stock springs, new bushings, new seals ect, i think i am running a 15wt oil, the bike rides nice not sure what CW was going on about in 82, but at the same time I don't currently have the OEM shocks installed.

              A few other efforts done:
              The engine has been balanced, crank rebuilt, trued, polished and welded, fresh OEM piston rings, ape clutch plate and re cut valves/seats.
              Last edited by first timer; Yesterday, 11:59 AM.
              78 GS1000 Yosh replica racer project
              82 Kat 1000
              10 990 ADV-R The big dirt bike​
              Some dirt bikes

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                #8
                They also said the '83 1100 vibrated and weighed less than the '82 1000, and made a few more horses.
                1982 GS1100E V&H "SS" exhaust, APE pods, 1150 oil cooler, 140 speedo, 99.3 rear wheel HP, black engine, '83 red

                2016 XL883L sigpic Two-tone blue and white. Almost 42 hp! Status: destroyed, now owned by the insurance company. The hole in my memory starts an hour before the accident and ends 24 hours after.

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Rob S. View Post
                  They also said the '83 1100 vibrated and weighed less than the '82 1000, and made a few more horses.
                  Yes that makes sense, the 83 had 100 extra cc's plus less body work which would be a weight reduction.

                  Both the 16v 1000 and the 16v 1100 run the same compression, and head, the 1000 may have a slightly different cam profile, and ignition curve, and a slightly different crank end and smaller stator for quicker reving.

                  The piston block is a 1100 block and suzy just used super thick sleeves to get piston size down to 1000 from 1100 instead of doing a new casting or full retool.

                  End of the day the differences are so minor it would be hardly noticeable to a layman.
                  78 GS1000 Yosh replica racer project
                  82 Kat 1000
                  10 990 ADV-R The big dirt bike​
                  Some dirt bikes
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